I am new to the forum, so I do not know, whether I should post under “Feature requests” or under “Plugin ideas”. I am happy for any suggestions or workarounds you know. Use case or problem I started using Obisidian as my main text editor for academic work. One huge problem I have with Obsidian, tho…

Continue here: [image] Include footnotes in copy-cut-paste and "extract from selection" actions Feature requests Use case or problem Footnotes are not included in copy-cut-paste actions or “extract from selection” actions, which means they get abandoned and le…

I completely agree. As a seminary student, discovering Obsidan was a delight. The fact that it integrates applications like Zotero and allows for footnotes is wonderful. However, if I am to curate and develop my second brain with Obsidian, the ability to edit notes while copying and pasting info int…

+1 This is what is keeping me from using the normal footnotes. My current workaround is to use in line footnotes (e.g. “A text.^[Footnote]”). It can be copy-pasted without any problem, but they do not get displayed as footnotes in the live-preview so, except for reading mode, the text is really cl…

So I believe that I have discovered a solution. Though not perfect, it is sufficient for our purposes. You will need Microsoft word. Please follow the steps below: Download a program called Writage . Once the program is downloaded and word refreshed, there will be a Writage ribbon tab in word. 2) …

Thank you, @Michael88 , for your workaround. I just saw your answer. I have switched to @mac_obs solution for now. It is not perfect, but at least it works. As @mac_obs said, the text is cluttered while not in reading mode…

Late to this thread, but I think I’ve solved part of your problem, and can help you solve the other half to make it more automatic. I maintain the Footnote Shortcut plugin . Since 0.2.0 I’ve added a per-note footnote prefix feature: run Set footnote prefix in a note and pick a prefix, say abc-, and …

Hey @CompJ , thanks so much for reacting to this. It still is an annoying issue and I am currently still working with @mac_obs workaround. Per the footnote prefix: that sounds like a good idea. The only issue is that the unique prefix might be very long, too, so it would still be a little bit clutte…

Gotcha, thanks! I’ve replied to you on GitHub and will get to work on it soon.

Thanks, I’ll answer in Github (for others, see Carry footnote definitions along when copying, cutting, and pasting text between notes · Issue #59 · MichaBrugger/obsidian-footnotes · GitHub )

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