Currently, footnotes are rendered properly only in read mode. Also, their link can’t be clicked in live preview mode. Thank you.

Seconded, strongly. In my experience, Live Preview very quickly became the standard mode for working in Obsidian. I’d go so far as to say that footnotes not rendering essentially makes them a non-feature, simply because the links don’t exist. I find footnotes are a great way to organize links to ex…

I fully support this feature too ! Clickable footnotes with automatic numbering in live preview is a must have for an knowledge app in my opinion.

They’re not clickable, and it only works for manually numbered footnotes (i.e. putting [^4] after your text, but this snippet should allow footnotes to display like you’d expect them to look in live preview mode: div:not(.cm-active) > span.cm-footref.cm-hmd-barelink, div:not(.cm-active) > span.cm-f…

Note: this snippet currently hides unselected square brackets everywhere. This is not a problem for links, since they’re hidden automatically, but is a problem if you’re using them for omissions in quotes or code. I’ll post an update when I figure out how to fix this behaviour.

Thank you, the snippet works great! Were you able to resolve the issue that affected square brackets in quotes and code?

Without modifying the CSS, another option is to install the “Footnote Shortcut” plugin and assign a hotkey to the “Insert / Navigate Auto-Numbered Footnote” command. When your cursor is on a footnote reference, pressing the hotkey jumps to the corresponding footnote. Press it again, and you’ll jump …

My solution was to put a backslash before any square brackets which I want to be able to see. Not the best solution, but it works for me.

I feel the same with the non-feature. I wanted to use them as note comments but even the side panel won’t allow navigation to the source of the footnote, nor does it give any information about the source. At the moment I use HiNote for that purpose which is not ideal as I need to add highlights ev…

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churnish October 17, 2024, 11:40am 5

Live Preview: Add support for inline footnotes Feature requests

I like to use footnotes like this: ^[https://obsidian.md/] The problem is that they do not look good and disrupt the text when not using the reading mode. Therefore I would propose to shorten them to [x] in the Live Preview mode.

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