Pope Francis marks the fifth anniversary of his election as pope March 13, and while five years is not yet a long pontificate, it is long enough to begin to consider how it will be remembered. After ...

MOST PEOPLE REMEMBER THEIR first kiss, their wedding night, the birth of a child. I -- like most writers -- also remember the day I first became a footnote. There, at the bottom of a page, was my name ...

About a year or so ago I began to think about footnotes. First I wondered if I should write footnotes for the film (NUTS!) I was in the final stages of completing. Then I wondered if footnotes might ...

Imagine a scene in which a man is sitting on a park bench reading a book. A woman comes up and sits beside him. He looks up at her. She hands him a letter. "It's over," she says. If you were to see ...

TikTok is rolling out a new feature called Footnotes, its version of Community Notes, a tool already used by platforms like X (Twitter) and Meta. Footnotes allow everyday users to add helpful, factual ...

Answering the question, 'what do footnotes do?' many scholars would argue instrumentally, stating that they document references, accumulate authority, and demonstrate scholarship. Yet to a reader, the ...

While early features were basic, Google Docs now offers a rich range of tools including the useful ability to add footnotes. Essential in academic writing and useful for clarification in documents ...