diff --git a/pinecone/control/__init__.py b/pinecone/control/__init__.py
index 4c739f1a..dc6bf1e2 100644
--- a/pinecone/control/__init__.py
+++ b/pinecone/control/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
 from .pinecone import Pinecone
+
+from .repr_overrides import install_repr_overrides
+
+install_repr_overrides()
diff --git a/pinecone/control/repr_overrides.py b/pinecone/control/repr_overrides.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4cf76c7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pinecone/control/repr_overrides.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from pinecone.models.index_model import IndexModel
+from pinecone.core.openapi.control.models import CollectionModel
+
+import json
+
+
+def install_repr_overrides():
+    """
+    The generator code uses pprint.pformat to format the repr output
+    which looks really poor when printing a list of large objects
+    in a notebook setting. We override it here for a few select models
+    instead of modifying the generator code because the more compact output
+    from pprint.pformat seems better for data plane objects such as lists of
+    query results.
+    """
+    for model in [IndexModel, CollectionModel]:
+        model.__repr__ = lambda self: json.dumps(self.to_dict(), indent=4, sort_keys=False)
diff --git a/pinecone/models/collection_list.py b/pinecone/models/collection_list.py
index 9b788cee..865a55ac 100644
--- a/pinecone/models/collection_list.py
+++ b/pinecone/models/collection_list.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import json
 from pinecone.core.openapi.control.models import (
     CollectionList as OpenAPICollectionList,
 )
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ def __str__(self):
         return str(self.collection_list)
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return repr(self.collection_list)
+        return json.dumps([c.to_dict() for c in self.collection_list.collections], indent=4)
 
     def __getattr__(self, attr):
         return getattr(self.collection_list, attr)
diff --git a/pinecone/models/index_list.py b/pinecone/models/index_list.py
index 6c524489..5240ebe4 100644
--- a/pinecone/models/index_list.py
+++ b/pinecone/models/index_list.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import json
 from pinecone.core.openapi.control.models import IndexList as OpenAPIIndexList
 from .index_model import IndexModel
 
@@ -21,10 +22,10 @@ def __iter__(self):
         return iter(self.indexes)
 
     def __str__(self):
-        return str(self.index_list)
+        return str(self.indexes)
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return repr(self.index_list)
+        return json.dumps([i.to_dict() for i in self.indexes], indent=4)
 
     def __getattr__(self, attr):
         return getattr(self.index_list, attr)
diff --git a/pinecone/models/index_model.py b/pinecone/models/index_model.py
index 9d46b0ed..ebf5d238 100644
--- a/pinecone/models/index_model.py
+++ b/pinecone/models/index_model.py
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ def __init__(self, index: OpenAPIIndexModel):
     def __str__(self):
         return str(self.index)
 
-    def __repr__(self):
-        return repr(self.index)
-
     def __getattr__(self, attr):
         return getattr(self.index, attr)
 
     def __getitem__(self, key):
         return self.__getattr__(key)
+
+    def to_dict(self):
+        return self.index.to_dict()