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I personally like the approach that Gwern takes (e.g. [1]), which works fairly well on screens where you have a lot more horizontal space than needed for the ma
by bschne 6y ago
I personally like the approach that Gwern takes (e.g. [1]), which works fairly well on screens where you have a lot more horizontal space than needed for the main body of text (it's beneficial to keep the text somewhat narrow anyway, since lines that are too long become harder to scan/read).
It seems to be somewhat similar to what Edward Tufte does in his books, which is also putting the footnotes in the margins close to where they are brought up, and often even interrupting the current line for an additional note or image at the point of reference.
1. https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3 https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3
- cxr 6y ago> I personally like the approach that Gwern takes (e.g. [1]), which works fairly well on screens where you have a lot more horizontal space I do almost all my reading and general browsing on half-width windows (side note: I highly recommend this practice), but sometimes I break out a tab into its own window and maximize it for pages that don't play nice at half-width. Gwern's footnotes break if you ever transition from a full-width window and then drop down to half-width. (Whereas if you start at half-width and keep it that way, they work as intended.)
- gwern 6y agoMore info: https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes