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how to write documents:

1. write your first draft
2. delete the parentheses
3. deal with the nested parentheses (you had them, didn't you?)
4. oops I accidentally more parentheses

@yaakov Protip: As a first pass, move all the parenthesized expressions into footnotes[1].

1. Witches love footnotes. (They can even contain a layer of parenthesis[2].)
2. And other footnotes[1]. Bonus, you can create a full DAG.
3. Not sure where to put extra ideas that an editor said wasn't useful? Orphaned clauses don't have to be garbage collected. Dump them all down here. A top-down graph traversal will never find them. 🤫

Klaus Stein

@ellie
@yaakov
Oh, you can¹ (and should) have both, with (slightly) different connotation², and combine them with end notes and appendices. And online you just can set links³ to other essays you wrote about similar topics.

Appendix A:

In scientific texts the use of footnotes differs lots across fields, see e.g. social.tchncs.de/@Lapizistik/1

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¹I mean it's _your_ text
²as they are perceived in different ways and therefore have different influence on the rhythm
³like social.tchncs.de/@Lapizistik/1