If everyone used footnotes instead of endnotes

Feb 4, 2025 · 5:57 PM UTC

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Replying to @NC_Renic @gabridli
What should we do with the folks who insist on in line citations? Enjoy these unrelated images.
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Like this?
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There needs to be a dual system: endnotes for bare references, footnotes for anything that includes commentary.
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What I hate most are endnotes renumbered for each chapter which are presented without any indication of the chapter number on each page of the endnotes. If the work has twelve x Endnote #10, the reader usually must flip & flip & again, flip, pages to find the right chapter. Grrr.
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Replying to @NC_Renic
If everyone used endnotes organized by main text page numbers
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The one thing we actually need an Executive Order for!
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So, so true!!!!!
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All fun and games until the lawyers start stuffing footnotes until they take up 1/2 of each page.

ALT Anime Fuego GIF

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How did you create it?
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endnotes are for sadists
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Footnotes for additional context, endnotes for sources
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Like this. (Continues for 4 more pages)
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Heaven, indeed.
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Footnote identifying the lovely image, please.
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Replying to @NC_Renic
But if we did that and there were like six lines of primary text on each page would we still be in a classical paradise
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Replying to @NC_Renic
As someone who enjoys reading both, I tire of having to either use a separate bookmark or my finger to continuously flip between sections. Also, screw those faux end notes that don't even have numbers referenced but expect you to remember the word they are referencing
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This is a crusade I can get behind.
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Endnotes are pretty much interaction farming, it takes longer to read and you flip through more pages. An author's chaotic revenge.
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Endnotes came after The Fall.
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I love you Chicago style
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Endnotes should be illegal
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YES, I enjoy the good use of footnotes. It is a great way to fluidly travel the same avenues and modes of information that led to that understanding of revelation/explanation for whatever is the topic at hand. It's an experiential sharing in the knowledge process of the author.
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I like it when a footnote takes up the whole next page
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Endnotes are Hell.
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Do you know where this picture's from?
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Replying to @NC_Renic
Yes please!!!
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No one who studies ethics would utilize AI at any point in time.
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I hate footnotes...
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What, you didn't like Infinite Jest?
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Actual Golden Age
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Accurate. I dislike endnotes so much, I generally don’t read them. The secret to happiness could be tucked into an endnote, and I’d never be the wiser.
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Meanwhile, the grim future that awaits us all is in line author-date
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I already use footnotes instead of endnotes and I'm waiting for the world to be that beautiful.
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Footnotes for comments, endnotes for sources, in the same paper.
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