This is a common complaint, so maybe I shouldn’t voice it again, but I would really like to be able to use footnotes in the draft js editor. I can’t be bothered using the markdown editor (because now I usually share my draft before hand as a gdoc instead of just writing it for myself in markdown using Vim), but I feel regularly stifled by the impossibility to add footnotes to my post.
To be clear, I was just answering the comment, not complaining again about the editor. I find it’s great, and the footnote is basically a nitpick (but a useful nitpick). I also totally get if it takes quite some time and work to implement. ;)
I mean, what I really want is a modern footnote system where I click on the footnote and it appears where I’m at, instead of having to jump around. But I would already be quite happy with being able to have footnotes at all.
This is a common complaint, so maybe I shouldn’t voice it again, but I would really like to be able to use footnotes in the draft js editor. I can’t be bothered using the markdown editor (because now I usually share my draft before hand as a gdoc instead of just writing it for myself in markdown using Vim), but I feel regularly stifled by the impossibility to add footnotes to my post.
I’m thinking of experimenting with this google docs to markdown converter, next time I really want footnotes.
But there are a lot of other things I like about the WYSIWIG editor that I’d be sad to abandon.
Thanks for the link!
But yeah, I like using the WYSIWIG, at least if I have to edit on LW directly (otherwise vim is still my favorite probably)
Yeah, I really want to get around to this. I am sorry for splitting the feature-set awkwardly across two editors!
To be clear, I was just answering the comment, not complaining again about the editor. I find it’s great, and the footnote is basically a nitpick (but a useful nitpick). I also totally get if it takes quite some time and work to implement. ;)
Yep, agree, also want this. Just a bit complicated tech-wise and UI-wise, so it’s a reasonably large investment.
It would also be great if it showed a hover preview of the footnote like in this post that used comment footnotes.
I mean, what I really want is a modern footnote system where I click on the footnote and it appears where I’m at, instead of having to jump around. But I would already be quite happy with being able to have footnotes at all.
But it’s not an “impossibility”. It’s an “unwillingness”—on your part! You could use the Markdown editor to add footnotes, very easily.