Use case or problem
When I have a block or header that includes a footnote (I’ll use block quotes in the example here)
This is a block quote[^1] ^af84bd
When I embed the block quote in another note, the rendered text looks like
This is a block quote1
This is especially annoying when “This block quote ends in the number 10” gets changed to “This block quote ends in the number 101”.
Proposed solution
It would be easier to navigate if, instead of the “1” there were either an actual link to the linked note’s footnote or nothing if that is impossible.
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Just put the note or links directly between the brackets and it will be displayed at the end of the page, like this:
Text ^[my footnote here]
Text text text and link ^[[mylink footnote](http://linkfootnote.com)]
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I need to agree with @shinyben here.
The challenge is that proper footnotes (or any citation system) has longish lines of characters in the footnote. So, just moving it into the markdown syntax is fugly.
In addition, I just figured out that we can embed specific blocks from other files, and it’s a miracle – I’ve been wanting that forever. So, I’m doing it in a bunch of places, and my footnotes are not just important to me, I am trying to make the Published version of at least one of my Obsidian vaults a better way to communicate with clients. So, the footnotes from a block in one file should show up elegantly in the new file.
Here’s the original:
Here’s the block reference:
I do think it would be awesome for a lot of “writers” who write non-fiction. We have all been looking for a great tool for a very long time and Obsidian is the closest I’ve seen.
