For novices to git and to open science practices it can be hard to navigate the myriad of tools that are present to host ones data in an open repository such as Zenodo. This post is an adaptation of a manual that I prepared for my lab in my function as data manager. It explains how to turn a folder into a git repository, how to setup a remote repository such as github and how to push the data to zenodo. In addition, this explains how to use interactive notebooks with github in a webbrowser using the mybinder.org service.