I’m not sure if this is common practice, but I like to link my conda envs so they appear visible in the kernel dropdown menu. To do this, I first installed
pip install ipykernel==6.13.0
Then I run the following command:
python -m ipykernel install --user --name mlep-w1-lab --display-name "Py3.8 (mlep-w1-lab)"
To me this make running notebooks a lot more clear since I can switch envs as I run the cells.