Authoring in a notebook allows you to keep all of your calculations, results, and comments in a single document. You can quickly change a notebook's appearance to suit your needs. To start, you can quickly select the font, style, and size of different components of a notebook. You can select one of dozens of document style sheets, or you can alter a style sheet and create your own. On the most advanced level, you can customize every aspect of the notebook's appearance.
Notebooks are versatile.
Notebooks are stored as plain text even if they include mathematical or foreign language characters. You can send notebooks by email or put them on a web or FTP site without affecting their quality, use them to create high-quality printouts easily, or translate them to other document formats such as as TeX and MathML, part of the new XML standard. More details about the features of notebooks are available.