A footnote
Markdown was created in 2004.[^1]
[^1]: By John Gruber, with Aaron Swartz.Markdown was created in 2004.1
- By John Gruber, with Aaron Swartz. ↩
Markdown footnotes. Sources, asides, citations.
Put [^1] where the note belongs, then define it anywhere in the document with [^1]: The note. The footnotes are collected at the end, numbered, with a link back to where each one was used.
On the left, what you type. On the right, what you get. Every result here was rendered by HushJot itself.
Footnotes
Named footnotes
Fast[^speed] and private.[^crypto]
[^speed]: It opens in under a second.
[^crypto]: Encrypted on your device.Fast1 and private.2
- It opens in under a second. ↩
- Encrypted on your device. ↩
The label can be a word. The reader still sees numbers, in the order the notes are used.
Good to know
- Definitions can go anywhere; keeping them at the end of the section that uses them makes the source easier to read.
- A footnote can hold formatting and links, but only one paragraph in HushJot.
- The label has no spaces:
[^my-note], not[^my note].
Questions
Footnotes, answered.
- How do I add a footnote in Markdown?
- Write
[^1]in the text, and[^1]: The note.on its own line anywhere in the document. - Does GitHub support footnotes?
- Yes, GitHub has supported footnotes since 2021. So do Obsidian, Pandoc and HushJot. Some simpler apps don’t, and show the brackets as text.
- Can I use words instead of numbers?
- Yes:
[^source]works, and the reader sees a number.
Write it, see it, keep it private.
HushJot is a Markdown notepad that opens instantly in your browser, with no account needed. Your notes are end-to-end encrypted.