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| Notes in the margin | 2026-08-22 | A quick look at the two asides this site knows how to make. |
Most of what I write should just be the thing itself. Sometimes a thought doesn't belong in the sentence, though, it belongs next to it. :margin-note[(like this — a margin note sits beside the column on a wide screen, and drops under the paragraph on a small one)] That's what margin notes are for. Parentheticals you can actually skip.
Notices are the opposite. They interrupt on purpose.
::notice A note you shouldn't skip. Use a notice when the aside is the point for a minute. It stays in the column, navy, hard to miss. ::
And if it needs to break the column entirely:
::notice{bleed} Full-bleed. Same idea, but it runs edge to edge. Save it for the one time in a piece you actually want to shout. ::
That's the whole vocabulary. Margin for a mutter. Band for a point. Everything else is just the writing.
A blockquote gets the little pointing hand in the left margin. Use it when you're quoting someone, or when you want a line to feel pointed at.