In Host by David Foster Wallace, a number of footnotes are used, with many having footnotes within footnotes.
In the online publication, these are coloured, and can be opened within the page. This gives context without having to scroll back and forth on both the desktop and mobile presentation medium.
Martha Spaulding wrote about how this was accomplished in a separate article.
Implement a css style (let's try to avoid JS) which would replicate this and ensure the abstraction of the author's side is a markdown-style footnote1
Footnotes
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Something like this, eh? ↩