Notebooks: No indication on where your notebook is

the most common path into notebooks is by clicking on the bucket name to start exploring your data. when they land on the other side of that link, we tell them that it's being autosaved and ask them to add a title so that they might later retrieve it. we spend a lot of time internally entertaining talks about folders vs labels, naming conventions, sort orders, which users in what level of the org should see a notebook at which version and how they'd navigate all these saved notebooks once they view them in a list.

but we never show them where the list is.

we dont even tell them that there is a list, or where their notebook is being saved. the navigation element on the side doesn't show them how to find that list, and outside of a couple of nouns we sprinkle about, they have very little information to teach them that they're even _in_ a notebook or what a notebook is. So why do we expect that they'd somehow find that saved notebook in a list through a barrage of un-taught navigation all keyed off of a name they haven't really been shown?

here's a gif of the user flow:


and here is a graph showing that only one tenth of users who create a notebook will access a notebook. we dont have the ability to correlate creating a notebook preset (already have had come through the list in order to create the notebook) to utilizing the save feature, but it's a leap i'm comfortable making
https://analytics.amplitude.com/influxdb/chart/83szf6a

when we look at event totals instead of the uniques, we see that ratio increase to nearly 1 access event for every 2 creation events. this seems to imply that those few users who are finding the connection also find a lot of utility in the feature once they've learned it.

The ask here is that in order to better educate our users on their ability to navigate their saved notebooks, we give them a mechanism on the notebook page that informs them how to find their list of previously saved notebooks and an easy way to navigate there. this mechanism should teach the user the connection between their notebook being saved to how to find the rest of the saved notebooks, and where the notebook they just saw is in that list. an example might be a "find it here" link under the auto save along that navigates the user to a list of their notebooks, sorted by desc creation date and a highlighted "you are here" state for the left nav bar. not trying to be prescriptive, just an example in order to define a potential mechanism