I expect my viewpoint on this is idiosyncratic, but I really quite like hoverable-footnotes, and quite dislike side-notes. I find side-notes problematically distracting.
I think another option that isn’t mentioned is to put everything that’s ‘extra’ in an appendix, with no tie-ins from the text. Then, in the appendix, quote the bit of the main article which this extra note is relevant to. That seems even less distracting to me.
Curious what you think of hoverable-footnotes on web pages, or the style of side-notes that LW recently implemented.
That sprang to my mind as the perfect solution to this problem.
I expect my viewpoint on this is idiosyncratic, but I really quite like hoverable-footnotes, and quite dislike side-notes. I find side-notes problematically distracting.
I think another option that isn’t mentioned is to put everything that’s ‘extra’ in an appendix, with no tie-ins from the text. Then, in the appendix, quote the bit of the main article which this extra note is relevant to. That seems even less distracting to me.