jekyll-sidenotes

Jekyll::SideNotes

jekyll-sidenotes is similar to markdown footnotes, but adds notes that render to either the left or right of the main content. The style is inspired by tufte-css.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'jekyll-sidenotes'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-sidenotes

Syntax

This is what a left-sidenote[<left] and a right-sidenote[>right] look like.

[<left]: the syntax looks similar to...
[>right]: ...regular markdown footnotes.

On medium to small sized screens, you can click on sidenote superscripts to show or hide their content.

Note:

• Sidenotes increment together, but separately from footnotes2. So, for example, it’s possible for there to be a ‘1’ for both a standard markdown footnote and a sidenote.
• Sidenotes require an “\n” after each definition to parse properly. A warning will display if there are missing newlines (regardless of sidenotes).

Influences

For clean’n’simple sidenote css implementation: tufte css

How to implement tufte css in jekyll. simply jekyll

For sidenote implementation comparisons. gwern.net