# Markdown Footnotes

> An overview of how footnotes are written and rendered in Markdown.

Source: https://curiouslychase.com/posts/markdown-footnotes/

I'm rarely confident I get the syntax correct for markdown footnotes [^confident], even though I find myself using them frequently in [Obsidian](https://curiouslychase.com/tools/obsidian/).

The most basic use of the [Markdown](https://curiouslychase.com/posts/markdown/) footnote syntax is to use numbers:

```markdown
A footnote in Markdown is a set of square brackets, followed by a caret and a number, letter or character or combination of any of the three without a space.[^example_footnote] 
```

A footnote in Markdown is a set of square brackets, followed by a caret and a number, letter or character or combination of any of the three without a space.[^example_footnote]

[^confident]: it turns out I'm usually on the right track but without seeing it render in Obsidian Mobile in a way that's obvious I did, I second guess myself! Imposter syndrome maybe?

[^example_footnote]: this is an example of a footnote.