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Footnotes in Markdown

Did you know that you can create footnotes in markdown?1

You can also use words instead of numbers, which get converted into numbers for you so you don't have to renumber footnotes when moving blocks of text around!2

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Did you know that you can create footnotes in markdown?[^1]

[^1]: I did not, and have been writing them by hand for years!!

You can also use words instead of numbers, which get converted into numbers for you so you don't have to renumber footnotes when moving blocks of text around![^words]

[^words]: Like this :)

Footnotes

  1. I did not, and have been writing them by hand for years!!

  2. Like this :)

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