Obsidian Tufte-style Sidenotes
TfT Hacker has a beta of Sidenotes as part of Cornell Notes
I was contacted by TfT Hacker just recently about a new development in the Cornell Notes Learning Vault, which I wrote about in Using Cornell Notes CSS to ‘Fake’ Tufte-style Sidenotes. So it turns out that TfT Hacker wanted me to test a full implementation of Tufte-style sidenotes built into Cornell Notes. And it works.
A Recap on Sidenotes
The famous designer, Edward Tufte, was a strong advocate of sidenotes: placing material in the right margin that might otherwise be rendered as a conventional footnote — rendered at the bottom of a page or section of a document.
Here’s an example:
I have wanted to use sidenotes in Obsidian for a long time (see Wonkish: Obsidian Footnotes as Sidenotes), and for the same reasons that Tufte adopted them. Sidenotes appear in the context of the material that the refer to, or expand on. Jumping back and forth to footnotes inches or pages away is annoying and inconvenient.
So, when TfT Notes said they had built a working version, I was ecstatic.
How It Works
The implementation involves an additional CSS file — in my case I wanted the sidenotes on the right, so I…
