From eab48409989b50f413df3763113ed7a79fa64ff8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Isensee <26852629+thomasisensee@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:09:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove outdated nbsphinx_link

---
 {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/conf.py    | 1 -
 {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/conf.py b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/conf.py
index 465dd9e..28a81af 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/conf.py
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/conf.py
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 extensions = [
 {%- if cookiecutter.notebooks == "Yes" %}
     "nbsphinx",
-    "nbsphinx_link",
 {%- endif %}
     "sphinx_mdinclude",
     "sphinx.ext.autodoc",
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml
index 4a1a6e4..45907a0 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/pyproject.toml
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ docs = [
 {%- if cookiecutter.notebooks == "Yes" %}
     "ipykernel",
     "nbsphinx",
-    "nbsphinx-link",
 {%- endif %}
     "sphinx",
     "sphinx_mdinclude",

From 94092c5db8a4e850e964f26f27849fe0d147f373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Isensee <26852629+thomasisensee@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:19:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Remove demo.nblink and reference the notebook directly in
 index.rst

---
 hooks/post_gen_project.py                     | 1 -
 {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/demo.nblink | 3 ---
 {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/index.rst   | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/demo.nblink

diff --git a/hooks/post_gen_project.py b/hooks/post_gen_project.py
index ebe91e2..e31ada7 100644
--- a/hooks/post_gen_project.py
+++ b/hooks/post_gen_project.py
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ def conditional_remove(condition, path):
 conditional_remove("{{ cookiecutter.gitlab_ci }}" == "No", ".gitlab-ci.yml")
 conditional_remove(not {{ have_precommit }}, ".pre-commit-config.yaml")
 conditional_remove("{{ cookiecutter.notebooks }}" == "No", "notebooks")
-conditional_remove("{{ cookiecutter.notebooks }}" == "No", "doc/demo.nblink")
 conditional_remove("{{ cookiecutter.commandlineinterface }}" == "No", "src/{{ cookiecutter|modname }}/__main__.py")
 conditional_remove("{{ cookiecutter.commandlineinterface }}" == "No", "tests/test_cli.py")
 conditional_remove(os.stat("TODO.md").st_size == 0, "TODO.md")
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/demo.nblink b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/demo.nblink
deleted file mode 100644
index e0294ef..0000000
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/demo.nblink
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "path": "../notebooks/demo.ipynb"
-}
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/index.rst b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/index.rst
index 3054caa..fb75e29 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/index.rst
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/doc/index.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
    intro
 {%- if cookiecutter.notebooks == "Yes" %}
-   demo
+   ../notebooks/demo.ipynb
 {%- endif %}
    api