Unordered Footnotes in Reading Mode

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What I’m trying to do

I’m trying to reorder footnotes based on the order I’ve explicitly provided and not based on when they appear in the document. I want:

test1[^2] test2[^1] test3[^3]

in reading mode, but it renders as:

test1[^1] test2[^2] test3[^3]

which also reorders the footnotes at the end of the document in a way I personally dislike.

Things I have tried

Obsidian Help doesn’t elaborate much on unordering footnotes. Most forums I’ve found seem to be about doing the opposite (i.e. ordering unordered footnotes) in live preview mode.

2

As far as I know it’s not possible.

What is your purpose in setting the order? As far as I know footnotes in text are always numbered in order of appearance.

3

I see myself adding more footnotes in the future and I think it’d be cool to see them in chronological order (as in, when the source in the footnote was published). It’s a purely stylistic reason.

4

Yes, the numbering doesn’t matter, it is the top-down order that matters. It is probably because not only footnotes with numbers in them are supported.

In my experience, adding footnotes that break the order is indeed a hassle.

But there is a plugin that can help: