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Export Notebook as Text (in newer versions13.3 &14)

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Export Notebook as Text (in newer versions)

What is the best way to export a notebook as readable plaintext - while preserving as much structure as possible? The motivation here is the need to bulk-ingest notebooks and chunk them (for use in RAG systems).

In such a solution for example:

textual elements would be stripped of styling
section headings would be preserved
cell-tags could be listed underneath cell contents
For non-text elements - those would be simply replaced with their notebook asset filepaths/hyperlinks
...

There were a few legacy answers about exporting to multi-markup/down that are now out of date, but is there any new "best way" to achieve this in v13.3/14?