title: Right place to put custom nbconvert templates
body: <p>I've made a custom nbconvert template and want it to be accessible from any folder where I launch <code>nbconvert</code> utility. Where should I put my template?</p>
  
  <p>I couldn't find anything in official docs. I have already tried usual places for jupyter configs, like <code>/usr/share/jupyter</code>, <code>~/.local/share/jupyter</code>, <code>~/.jupyter</code>, to no avail.</p>
  
  <p>The only place I've found so far is the folder where python package lives:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ pip show nbconvert | grep Location | cut -d" " -f2
  /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I create <code>nbconvert/templates/html</code> directory there and put my template in it, <code>nbconvert --to html --template &lt;my_template_name&gt; ...</code> works fine. But this is an ugly hack which I'll need to re-do every time I update nbconvert.</p>
  
  <p>Seems that I can provide nbconvert with environment variable, but I would prefer to avoid this option.</p>