Antisuji comments on How to Be Happy - Less Wrong
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Footnotes aren't as good a mechanism online as they are on paper (pun unintended). For example, to follow up on the source for the statement "Savor the good moments throughout each day", I have to:
This is too much work for a page on the Internet! :-) If there's a webpage with the reference, you should make the statement itself link to that reference (as you did in a few places), or else add a hotlinked marker after the statement if the text is getting too Potholed. If the reference isn't online, then clicking on the statement should take me somewhere with information on what paper to look for.
I thought it was an excessive number of notes too at first, and balked at the scrolling. And then I came up with a solution that's almost as good as if the notes were hyperlinked, and now I'm kicking myself a little bit for not thinking of this sooner:
Open the article in a new tab next to this one. Scroll down to the footnotes in the new tab and stay with the main text in the old one.
Hopefully this will save one or two people some time and annoyance when faced with similarly noted text.