An overview of how footnotes are written and rendered in Markdown.
2022-10-22
I'm rarely confident I get the syntax correct for markdown footnotes1, even though I find myself using them frequently in Obsidian.
The most basic use of the Markdown footnote syntax is to use numbers:
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.2
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