Notes, Links, and Footnotes

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Footnotes should feel present without taking over the page.1 In long-form writing they are a useful pressure valve: keep the main line moving, and let the reader step aside when they want the supporting detail.

The same goes for metadata. Categories, tags, dates, and update times are useful, but they should not compete with the title.2

This page exists mostly to show that ordinary editorial details still have a place in a minimal theme.3

  1. Footnotes use Hugo’s built-in Markdown rendering. ↩︎

  2. Taxonomy metadata can be hidden globally with params.display.taxonomyMeta. ↩︎

  3. The source for this example theme is on GitHub. ↩︎