There is a %qtconsole magic command available for use with Jupyter notebook. This invokes the QtConsole as a slave terminal to notebook frontend. As a result, data between notebook and Qtconsole terminal can be shared.

You can see that the variable in notebook is accessible within qtconsole window. Also, a new variable in Qtconsole is used back in notebook.

Observe that the input and output cells are numbered incrementally between the two.