feat: footnotes (#2384)

* feat: footnotes * feat: proper DOCX support
2026-08-15 06:31:36 +10:00 · 2026-08-12 12:30:30 +01:00
parent 7439da2f6e
commit a0b2ac6ae3
21 changed files with 987 additions and 9 deletions
@@ -387,6 +387,8 @@
  "Insert horizontal rule divider": "Insert horizontal rule divider",
  "Page break": "Page break",
  "Insert a page break for printing.": "Insert a page break for printing.",
+  "Footnote": "Footnote",
+  "Insert a footnote reference.": "Insert a footnote reference.",
  "Upload any image from your device.": "Upload any image from your device.",
  "Upload any video from your device.": "Upload any video from your device.",
  "Upload any audio from your device.": "Upload any audio from your device.",
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import {
  IconMathFunction,
  IconRotate2,
  IconSitemap,
+  IconSuperscript,
  IconTable,
  IconTag,
 } from "@tabler/icons-react";
@@ -270,6 +271,12 @@ export const MoreInsertsGroup: FC<Props> = ({ editor, templateMode }) => {
        >
          {t("Math block")}
        </Menu.Item>
+        <Menu.Item
+          leftSection={<IconSuperscript size={16} />}
+          onClick={() => editor.chain().focus().addFootnote().run()}
+        >
+          {t("Footnote")}
+        </Menu.Item>
      </Menu.Dropdown>
    </Menu>
  );
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import {
  IconTag,
  IconMoodSmile,
  IconRotate2,
+  IconSuperscript,
 } from "@tabler/icons-react";
 import {
  CommandProps,
@@ -177,6 +178,16 @@ const CommandGroups: SlashMenuGroupedItemsType = {
      command: ({ editor, range }: CommandProps) =>
        editor.chain().focus().deleteRange(range).setPageBreak().run(),
    },
+    {
+      title: "Footnote",
+      description: "Insert a footnote reference.",
+      searchTerms: ["footnote", "reference", "citation", "note"],
+      icon: IconSuperscript,
+      command: ({ editor, range }: CommandProps) => {
+        editor.chain().focus().deleteRange(range).run();
+        editor.commands.addFootnote();
+      },
+    },
    {
      title: "Image",
      description: "Upload any image from your device.",
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { markInputRule } from "@tiptap/core";
 import { StarterKit } from "@tiptap/starter-kit";
+import { Document } from "@tiptap/extension-document";
 import { Code } from "@tiptap/extension-code";
 import { TextAlign } from "@tiptap/extension-text-align";
 import { TaskList, TaskItem } from "@tiptap/extension-list";
@@ -63,6 +64,9 @@ import {
  TransclusionReference,
  TableView,
  BaseEmbed as BaseEmbedNode,
+  Footnotes,
+  Footnote,
+  FootnoteReference,
 } from "@docmost/editor-ext";
 import {
  randomElement,
@@ -132,6 +136,7 @@ lowlight.register("scala", scala);
 // @ts-ignore
 export const mainExtensions = [
  StarterKit.configure({
+    document: false,
    heading: false,
    undoRedo: false,
    link: false,
@@ -143,6 +148,9 @@ export const mainExtensions = [
    codeBlock: false,
    code: false,
  }),
+  Document.extend({
+    content: "block+ footnotes?",
+  }),
  // Override TipTap's Code extension to fix the inline code input rule.
  // The upstream regex /(^|[^`])`([^`]+)`(?!`)$/ captures the character
  // before the opening backtick as part of the match, causing markInputRule
@@ -203,7 +211,8 @@ export const mainExtensions = [
            parentName === "tableCell" ||
            parentName === "tableHeader" ||
            parentName === "callout" ||
-            parentName === "blockquote"
+            parentName === "blockquote" ||
+            parentName === "footnote"
          ) {
            return i18n.t("Write...");
          }
@@ -417,6 +426,9 @@ export const mainExtensions = [
  }).configure(),
  Columns,
  Column,
+  Footnotes,
+  Footnote,
+  FootnoteReference,
  AutoJoiner.configure({
    elementsToJoin: [],
  }),
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+.ProseMirror sup a.footnote-ref {
+  color: var(--mantine-primary-color-filled);
+  text-decoration: none;
+  cursor: pointer;
+  font-weight: 600;
+}
+
+.ProseMirror sup:has(a.footnote-ref) {
+  padding: 0 1px;
+}
+
+.ProseMirror ol.footnotes {
+  margin-top: 2rem;
+  padding-top: 0.75rem;
+  font-size: 0.875rem;
+  color: var(--mantine-color-dimmed);
+  list-style-type: decimal;
+}
+
+.ProseMirror ol.footnotes:has(li) {
+  border-top: 1px solid var(--mantine-color-default-border);
+}
+
+.ProseMirror ol.footnotes li p {
+  margin: 0.15rem 0;
+}
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@
@import "./columns.css";
@import "./status.css";
@import "./base-embed.css";
+@import "./footnotes.css";
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { StarterKit } from '@tiptap/starter-kit';
+import { Document } from '@tiptap/extension-document';
 import { TextAlign } from '@tiptap/extension-text-align';
 import { Superscript } from '@tiptap/extension-superscript';
 import SubScript from '@tiptap/extension-subscript';
@@ -45,6 +46,9 @@ import {
  TransclusionSource,
  TransclusionReference,
  BaseEmbed,
+  Footnotes,
+  Footnote,
+  FootnoteReference,
 } from '@docmost/editor-ext';
 import { generateText, getSchema, JSONContent } from '@tiptap/core';
 import { generateHTML, generateJSON } from '../common/helpers/prosemirror/html';
@@ -58,11 +62,15 @@ import { Logger } from '@nestjs/common';

 export const tiptapExtensions = [
  StarterKit.configure({
+    document: false,
    codeBlock: false,
    link: false,
    trailingNode: false,
    heading: false,
  }),
+  Document.extend({
+    content: 'block+ footnotes?',
+  }),
  Heading,
  UniqueID.configure({
    types: ['heading', 'paragraph', 'transclusionSource'],
@@ -110,7 +118,10 @@ export const tiptapExtensions = [
  Status,
  TransclusionSource,
  TransclusionReference,
-  BaseEmbed
+  BaseEmbed,
+  Footnotes,
+  Footnote,
+  FootnoteReference,
 ] as any;

 export function jsonToHtml(tiptapJson: any) {
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export * from "./lib/columns";
 export * from "./lib/status";
 export * from "./lib/pdf";
 export * from "./lib/page-break";
+export * from "./lib/footnotes";
 export * from "./lib/resizable-nodeview";
 export {
  pageNodeToDocxBuffer,
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+//Source MIT - https://github.com/buttondown/tiptap-footnotes
+import { mergeAttributes } from "@tiptap/core";
+import ListItem, { ListItemOptions } from "@tiptap/extension-list-item";
+
+declare module "@tiptap/core" {
+  interface Commands<ReturnType> {
+    footnote: {
+      /**
+       * scrolls to & sets the text selection at the end of the footnote with the given id
+       * @param id the id of the footote (i.e. the `data-id` attribute value of the footnote)
+       * @example editor.commands.focusFootnote("a43956c1-1ab8-462f-96e4-be3a4b27fd50")
+       */
+      focusFootnote: (id: string) => ReturnType;
+    };
+  }
+}
+
+export interface FootnoteOptions extends ListItemOptions {
+  /**
+   * Content expression for this node
+   * @default "paragraph+"
+   */
+  content: string;
+}
+
+const Footnote = ListItem.extend<FootnoteOptions>({
+  name: "footnote",
+  content() {
+    return this.options.content;
+  },
+  isolating: true,
+  defining: true,
+  draggable: false,
+
+  addOptions() {
+    return {
+      HTMLAttributes: {},
+      bulletListTypeName: 'bulletList',
+      orderedListTypeName: 'orderedList',
+      ...this.parent?.(),
+      content: "paragraph+",
+    };
+  },
+
+  addAttributes() {
+    return {
+      id: {
+        isRequired: true,
+      },
+      // the data-id field should match the data-id field of a footnote reference.
+      // it's used to link footnotes and references together.
+      "data-id": {
+        isRequired: true,
+      },
+    };
+  },
+  parseHTML() {
+    return [
+      {
+        tag: "li",
+        getAttrs(node) {
+          const id = node.getAttribute("data-id");
+          if (id) {
+            return {
+              "data-id": node.getAttribute("data-id"),
+            };
+          }
+          return false;
+        },
+        priority: 1000,
+      },
+    ];
+  },
+  renderHTML({ HTMLAttributes }) {
+    return [
+      "li",
+      mergeAttributes(this.options.HTMLAttributes, HTMLAttributes),
+      0,
+    ];
+  },
+
+  addCommands() {
+    return {
+      focusFootnote:
+        (id: string) =>
+        ({ editor, chain }) => {
+          const matchedFootnote = editor.$node("footnote", {
+            "data-id": id,
+          });
+          if (matchedFootnote) {
+            // sets the text selection to the end of the footnote definition and scroll to it.
+            chain()
+              .focus()
+              .setTextSelection(
+                matchedFootnote.from + matchedFootnote.content.size
+              )
+              .run();
+
+            matchedFootnote.element.scrollIntoView();
+            return true;
+          }
+          return false;
+        },
+    };
+  },
+  addKeyboardShortcuts() {
+    return {
+      // when inside a footnote, Mod-a should select only the footnote content
+      "Mod-a": ({ editor }) => {
+        try {
+          const { selection } = editor.state;
+          const { $from } = selection;
+
+          for (let depth = $from.depth; depth >= 0; depth--) {
+            const node = $from.node(depth);
+            if (node.type.name === "footnote") {
+              const start = $from.start(depth);
+              const end = $from.end(depth);
+
+              editor.commands.setTextSelection({
+                from: start + 1,
+                to: end - 1,
+              });
+              return true;
+            }
+          }
+
+          return false;
+        } catch (e) {
+          return false;
+        }
+      },
+      // when the user presses tab, adjust the text selection to be at the end of the next footnote
+      Tab: ({ editor }) => {
+        try {
+          const { selection } = editor.state;
+          const pos = editor.$pos(selection.anchor);
+          if (!pos.after) return false;
+          // if the next node  is "footnotes", place the text selection at the end of the first footnote
+          if (pos.after.node.type.name == "footnotes") {
+            const firstChild = pos.after.node.child(0);
+            editor
+              .chain()
+              .setTextSelection(pos.after.from + firstChild.content.size)
+              .scrollIntoView()
+              .run();
+            return true;
+          } else {
+            const startPos = selection.$from.start(2);
+            if (Number.isNaN(startPos)) return false;
+            const parent = editor.$pos(startPos);
+            if (parent.node.type.name != "footnote" || !parent.after) {
+              return false;
+            }
+            // if the next node is a footnote, place the text selection at the end of it
+            editor
+              .chain()
+              .setTextSelection(parent.after.to - 1)
+              .scrollIntoView()
+              .run();
+            return true;
+          }
+        } catch {
+          return false;
+        }
+      },
+      // inverse of the tab command - place the text selection at the end of the previous footnote
+      "Shift-Tab": ({ editor }) => {
+        const { selection } = editor.state;
+        const startPos = selection.$from.start(2);
+        if (Number.isNaN(startPos)) return false;
+        const parent = editor.$pos(startPos);
+        if (parent.node.type.name != "footnote" || !parent.before) {
+          return false;
+        }
+
+        editor
+          .chain()
+          .setTextSelection(parent.before.to - 1)
+          .scrollIntoView()
+          .run();
+        return true;
+      },
+    };
+  },
+
+});
+
+export default Footnote;
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+//Source MIT - https://github.com/buttondown/tiptap-footnotes
+import OrderedList from "@tiptap/extension-ordered-list";
+import FootnoteRules from "./rules";
+
+const Footnotes = OrderedList.extend({
+  name: "footnotes",
+  group: "", // removed the default group of the ordered list extension
+  isolating: true,
+  defining: true,
+  draggable: false,
+
+  content() {
+    return "footnote*";
+  },
+  addAttributes() {
+    return {
+      class: {
+        default: "footnotes",
+      },
+    };
+  },
+  parseHTML() {
+    return [
+      {
+        tag: "ol.footnotes",
+        priority: 1000,
+      },
+    ];
+  },
+
+  addKeyboardShortcuts() {
+    return {};
+  },
+  addCommands() {
+    return {};
+  },
+  addInputRules() {
+    return [];
+  },
+
+  addExtensions() {
+    return [FootnoteRules];
+  },
+});
+
+export default Footnotes;
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+export { default as Footnotes } from "./footnotes";
+export { default as Footnote } from "./footnote";
+export type { FootnoteOptions } from "./footnote";
+export { default as FootnoteReference } from "./reference";
@@ -0,0 +1,221 @@
+//Source MIT - https://github.com/buttondown/tiptap-footnotes
+import { mergeAttributes, Node } from "@tiptap/core";
+import {
+  Fragment as PMFragment,
+  Node as PMNode,
+  Slice,
+} from "@tiptap/pm/model";
+import { NodeSelection, Plugin, PluginKey } from "@tiptap/pm/state";
+import { generateNodeId } from "../utils";
+
+
+const REFNUM_ATTR = "data-reference-number";
+const REF_CLASS = "footnote-ref";
+
+declare module "@tiptap/core" {
+  interface Commands<ReturnType> {
+    footnoteReference: {
+      /**
+       * add a new footnote reference
+       * @example editor.commands.addFootnote()
+       */
+      addFootnote: () => ReturnType;
+    };
+  }
+}
+
+const FootnoteReference = Node.create({
+  name: "footnoteReference",
+  inline: true,
+  content: "text*",
+  group: "inline",
+  atom: true,
+  draggable: true,
+
+  parseHTML() {
+    return [
+      {
+        tag: `sup`,
+        priority: 1000,
+        getAttrs(node) {
+          const anchor = node.querySelector<HTMLAnchorElement>(
+            `a.${REF_CLASS}:first-child`
+          );
+
+          if (!anchor) {
+            return false;
+          }
+
+          const id = anchor.getAttribute("data-id");
+          const ref = anchor.getAttribute(REFNUM_ATTR);
+
+          return {
+            "data-id": id ?? generateNodeId(),
+            referenceNumber: ref ?? anchor.innerText,
+          };
+        },
+        contentElement(node) {
+          return node.firstChild as HTMLElement;
+        },
+      },
+    ];
+  },
+
+  addAttributes() {
+    return {
+      class: {
+        default: REF_CLASS,
+      },
+      "data-id": {
+        renderHTML(attributes) {
+          return {
+            "data-id": attributes["data-id"] || generateNodeId(),
+          };
+        },
+      },
+      referenceNumber: {},
+
+      href: {
+        renderHTML(attributes) {
+          return {
+            href: `#fn:${attributes["referenceNumber"]}`,
+          };
+        },
+      },
+    };
+  },
+
+  renderHTML({ HTMLAttributes }) {
+    const { referenceNumber, ...attributes } = HTMLAttributes;
+    const attrs = mergeAttributes(this.options.HTMLAttributes, attributes);
+    attrs[REFNUM_ATTR] = referenceNumber;
+
+    return [
+      "sup",
+      { id: `fnref:${referenceNumber}` },
+      ["a", attrs, HTMLAttributes.referenceNumber],
+    ];
+  },
+
+  addProseMirrorPlugins() {
+    const { editor } = this;
+
+    // Ensures pasted footnote references get unique IDs.
+    const mapNode = (node: PMNode): PMNode => {
+      if (node.type.name === this.name) {
+        const newAttrs = { ...node.attrs, "data-id": generateNodeId() };
+        return node.type.create(newAttrs, node.content, node.marks);
+      }
+
+      if (node.content && node.content.size > 0) {
+        const newChildren: PMNode[] = [];
+        let changed = false;
+
+        node.content.forEach((child) => {
+          const mapped = mapNode(child);
+          if (mapped !== child) {
+            changed = true;
+          }
+
+          newChildren.push(mapped);
+        });
+
+        if (changed) {
+          return node.copy(PMFragment.from(newChildren));
+        }
+      }
+
+      return node;
+    };
+
+    return [
+      new Plugin({
+        key: new PluginKey("footnotePasteHandler"),
+        props: {
+          transformPasted(slice) {
+            const mappedNodes: PMNode[] = [];
+            let changed = false;
+
+            slice.content.forEach((node) => {
+              const mapped = mapNode(node);
+              if (mapped !== node) {
+                changed = true;
+              }
+              mappedNodes.push(mapped);
+            });
+
+            if (!changed) {
+              return slice;
+            }
+
+            return new Slice(
+              PMFragment.from(mappedNodes),
+              slice.openStart,
+              slice.openEnd
+            );
+          },
+        },
+      }),
+      new Plugin({
+        key: new PluginKey("footnoteRefClick"),
+
+        props: {
+          // on double-click, focus on the footnote
+          handleDoubleClickOn(view, pos, node, nodePos, event) {
+            if (node.type.name != "footnoteReference") return false;
+            event.preventDefault();
+            const id = node.attrs["data-id"];
+            return editor.commands.focusFootnote(id);
+          },
+          // click the footnote reference once to get focus, click twice to scroll to the footnote
+          handleClickOn(view, pos, node, nodePos, event) {
+            if (node.type.name != "footnoteReference") return false;
+            event.preventDefault();
+            const { selection } = editor.state.tr;
+            if (selection instanceof NodeSelection && selection.node.eq(node)) {
+              const id = node.attrs["data-id"];
+              return editor.commands.focusFootnote(id);
+            } else {
+              editor.chain().setNodeSelection(nodePos).run();
+              return true;
+            }
+          },
+        },
+      }),
+    ];
+  },
+
+  addCommands() {
+    return {
+      addFootnote:
+        () =>
+        ({ state, tr }) => {
+          const node = this.type.create({
+            "data-id": generateNodeId(),
+          });
+          tr.insert(state.selection.anchor, node);
+          return true;
+        },
+    };
+  },
+
+  addInputRules() {
+    // when a user types [^text], add a new footnote
+    return [
+      {
+        find: /\[\^(.*?)\]/,
+        type: this.type,
+        undoable: true,
+        handler({ range, match, chain }) {
+          const start = range.from;
+          let end = range.to;
+          if (match[1]) {
+            chain().deleteRange({ from: start, to: end }).addFootnote().run();
+          }
+        },
+      },
+    ];
+  },
+});
+
+export default FootnoteReference;
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+//Source MIT - https://github.com/buttondown/tiptap-footnotes
+import { Plugin, PluginKey } from "@tiptap/pm/state";
+import { ReplaceStep } from "@tiptap/pm/transform";
+import { Extension } from "@tiptap/core";
+import { updateFootnotesList } from "./utils";
+
+const FootnoteRules = Extension.create({
+  name: "footnoteRules",
+  priority: 1000,
+  addProseMirrorPlugins() {
+    return [
+      new Plugin({
+        key: new PluginKey("footnoteRules"),
+        filterTransaction(tr) {
+          const { from, to } = tr.selection;
+
+          // Allow full document selections (Mod-a/Ctrl-a)
+          if (from === 0 && to === tr.doc.content.size) return true;
+
+          let selectedFootnotes = false;
+          let selectedContent = false;
+          let footnoteCount = 0;
+          tr.doc.nodesBetween(from, to, (node, _, parent) => {
+            if (parent?.type.name == "doc" && node.type.name != "footnotes") {
+              selectedContent = true;
+            } else if (node.type.name == "footnote") {
+              footnoteCount += 1;
+            } else if (node.type.name == "footnotes") {
+              selectedFootnotes = true;
+            }
+          });
+          const overSelected = selectedContent && selectedFootnotes;
+          /*
+           * Here, we don't allow any transaction that spans between the "content" nodes and the "footnotes" node. This also rejects any transaction that spans between more than 1 footnote.
+           */
+          return !overSelected && footnoteCount <= 1;
+        },
+
+        // if there are some to the footnote references (added/deleted/dragged), append a transaction that updates the footnotes list accordingly
+        appendTransaction(transactions, oldState, newState) {
+          let newTr = newState.tr;
+          let refsChanged = false; // true if the footnote references have been changed, false otherwise
+          for (let tr of transactions) {
+            if (!tr.docChanged) continue;
+            if (refsChanged) break;
+
+            for (let step of tr.steps) {
+              if (!(step instanceof ReplaceStep)) continue;
+              if (refsChanged) break;
+
+              const isDelete = step.from != step.to; // the user deleted items from the document (from != to & the step is a replace step)
+              const isInsert = step.slice.size > 0;
+
+              // check if any footnote references have been inserted
+              if (isInsert) {
+                step.slice.content.descendants((node) => {
+                  if (node?.type.name == "footnoteReference") {
+                    refsChanged = true;
+                    return false;
+                  }
+                });
+              }
+              if (isDelete && !refsChanged) {
+                // check if any footnote references have been deleted
+                tr.before.nodesBetween(
+                  step.from,
+                  Math.min(tr.before.content.size, step.to), // make sure to not go over the old document's limit
+                  (node) => {
+                    if (node.type.name == "footnoteReference") {
+                      refsChanged = true;
+                      return false;
+                    }
+                  },
+                );
+              }
+            }
+          }
+
+          if (refsChanged) {
+            updateFootnotesList(newTr, newState);
+            return newTr;
+          }
+
+          return null;
+        },
+      }),
+    ];
+  },
+});
+export default FootnoteRules;
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+//Source MIT - https://github.com/buttondown/tiptap-footnotes
+import { EditorState, Transaction } from "@tiptap/pm/state";
+import { Fragment, Node } from "@tiptap/pm/model";
+
+// update the reference number of all the footnote references in the document
+export function updateFootnoteReferences(tr: Transaction) {
+  let count = 1;
+
+  const nodes: any[] = [];
+
+  tr.doc.descendants((node, pos) => {
+    if (node.type.name == "footnoteReference") {
+      tr.setNodeAttribute(pos, "referenceNumber", `${count}`);
+
+      nodes.push(node);
+      count += 1;
+    }
+  });
+  // return the updated footnote references (in the order that they appear in the document)
+  return nodes;
+}
+
+function getFootnotes(tr: Transaction) {
+  let footnotesRange: { from: number; to: number } | undefined;
+  const footnotes: Node[] = [];
+  tr.doc.descendants((node, pos) => {
+    if (node.type.name == "footnote") {
+      footnotes.push(node);
+    } else if (node.type.name == "footnotes") {
+      footnotesRange = { from: pos, to: pos + node.nodeSize };
+    } else {
+      return false;
+    }
+  });
+  return { footnotesRange, footnotes };
+}
+
+// update the "footnotes" ordered list based on the footnote references in the document
+export function updateFootnotesList(tr: Transaction, state: EditorState) {
+  const footnoteReferences = updateFootnoteReferences(tr);
+
+  const footnoteType = state.schema.nodes.footnote;
+  const footnotesType = state.schema.nodes.footnotes;
+
+  const emptyParagraph = state.schema.nodeFromJSON({
+    type: "paragraph",
+    content: [],
+  });
+
+  const { footnotesRange, footnotes } = getFootnotes(tr);
+
+  // a mapping of footnote id -> footnote node
+  const footnoteIds: { [key: string]: Node } = footnotes.reduce(
+    (obj, footnote) => {
+      obj[footnote.attrs["data-id"]] = footnote;
+      return obj;
+    },
+    {} as any,
+  );
+
+  const newFootnotes: Node[] = [];
+
+  let footnoteRefIds = new Set(
+    footnoteReferences.map((ref) => ref.attrs["data-id"]),
+  );
+  const deleteFootnoteIds: Set<string> = new Set();
+  for (let footnote of footnotes) {
+    const id = footnote.attrs["data-id"];
+    if (!footnoteRefIds.has(id) || deleteFootnoteIds.has(id)) {
+      deleteFootnoteIds.add(id);
+      // we traverse through this footnote's content because it may contain footnote references.
+      // we want to delete the footnotes associated with these references, so we add them to the delete set.
+      footnote.content.descendants((node) => {
+        if (node.type.name == "footnoteReference")
+          deleteFootnoteIds.add(node.attrs["data-id"]);
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < footnoteReferences.length; i++) {
+    let refId = footnoteReferences[i].attrs["data-id"];
+
+    if (deleteFootnoteIds.has(refId)) continue;
+    // if there is a footnote w/ the same id as this `ref`, we preserve its content and update its id attribute
+    if (refId in footnoteIds) {
+      let footnote = footnoteIds[refId];
+      newFootnotes.push(
+        footnoteType.create(
+          { ...footnote.attrs, id: `fn:${i + 1}` },
+          footnote.content,
+        ),
+      );
+    } else {
+      let newNode = footnoteType.create(
+        {
+          "data-id": refId,
+          id: `fn:${i + 1}`,
+        },
+        [emptyParagraph],
+      );
+      newFootnotes.push(newNode);
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (newFootnotes.length == 0) {
+    // no footnotes in the doc, delete the "footnotes" node
+    if (footnotesRange) {
+      tr.delete(footnotesRange.from, footnotesRange.to);
+    }
+  } else if (!footnotesRange) {
+    // there is no footnotes node present in the doc, add it
+    tr.insert(
+      tr.doc.content.size,
+      footnotesType.create(undefined, Fragment.from(newFootnotes)),
+    );
+  } else {
+    tr.replaceWith(
+      footnotesRange!.from + 1, // add 1 to point at the position after the opening ol tag
+      footnotesRange!.to - 1, // substract 1 to point to the position before the closing ol tag
+      Fragment.from(newFootnotes),
+    );
+  }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+import { Token, marked } from 'marked';
+import { generateNodeId } from '../../utils';
+
+interface FootnoteRefToken {
+  type: 'footnoteRef';
+  label: string;
+  raw: string;
+}
+
+interface FootnoteDefToken {
+  type: 'footnoteDef';
+  label: string;
+  text: string;
+  raw: string;
+}
+
+// Parse-scoped state: markdownToHtml resets before the top-level parse and
+// appends the collected list after it. Nested marked.parse calls (callout,
+// footnote definitions) share this state, so hooks cannot be used here.
+let footnoteRefs: { label: string; id: string; number: number }[] = [];
+let footnoteDefs = new Map<string, string>();
+
+export function resetFootnotes() {
+  footnoteRefs = [];
+  footnoteDefs = new Map();
+}
+
+export function renderFootnotesList(): string {
+  if (!footnoteRefs.length) return '';
+  const items = footnoteRefs.map(({ label, id, number }) => {
+    const body = footnoteDefs.get(label) || '<p></p>';
+    return `<li id="fn:${number}" data-id="${id}">${body}</li>`;
+  });
+  return `<ol class="footnotes">\n${items.join('\n')}\n</ol>\n`;
+}
+
+export const footnoteRefExtension = {
+  name: 'footnoteRef',
+  level: 'inline',
+  start(src: string) {
+    return src.indexOf('[^');
+  },
+  tokenizer(src: string): FootnoteRefToken | undefined {
+    const match = /^\[\^([^\]\s]+)\]/.exec(src);
+    if (match) {
+      return {
+        type: 'footnoteRef',
+        raw: match[0],
+        label: match[1].toLowerCase(),
+      };
+    }
+  },
+  renderer(token: Token) {
+    const refToken = token as FootnoteRefToken;
+    const number = footnoteRefs.length + 1;
+    const id = generateNodeId();
+    footnoteRefs.push({ label: refToken.label, id, number });
+    return `<sup id="fnref:${number}"><a class="footnote-ref" data-id="${id}" data-reference-number="${number}" href="#fn:${number}">${number}</a></sup>`;
+  },
+};
+
+export const footnoteDefExtension = {
+  name: 'footnoteDef',
+  level: 'block',
+  start(src: string) {
+    return src.match(/^\[\^[^\]\s]+\]:/m)?.index ?? -1;
+  },
+  tokenizer(src: string): FootnoteDefToken | undefined {
+    const firstLine = /^\[\^([^\]\s]+)\]:[ \t]*/.exec(src);
+    if (!firstLine) return undefined;
+
+    const lines = src.split('\n');
+    const contentLines = [lines[0].slice(firstLine[0].length)];
+    let consumed = 1;
+    while (consumed < lines.length) {
+      const line = lines[consumed];
+      if (/^[ \t]{2,}\S/.test(line)) {
+        contentLines.push(line.replace(/^[ \t]{1,4}/, ''));
+        consumed += 1;
+      } else if (
+        /^[ \t]*$/.test(line) &&
+        consumed + 1 < lines.length &&
+        /^[ \t]{2,}\S/.test(lines[consumed + 1])
+      ) {
+        contentLines.push('');
+        consumed += 1;
+      } else {
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+
+    const raw =
+      lines.slice(0, consumed).join('\n') +
+      (consumed < lines.length ? '\n' : '');
+    return {
+      type: 'footnoteDef',
+      raw,
+      label: firstLine[1].toLowerCase(),
+      text: contentLines.join('\n').trim(),
+    };
+  },
+  renderer(token: Token) {
+    const defToken = token as FootnoteDefToken;
+    const body = defToken.text
+      ? marked.parse(defToken.text).toString()
+      : '<p></p>';
+    footnoteDefs.set(defToken.label, body);
+    return '';
+  },
+};
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ import { marked } from "marked";
 import { calloutExtension } from "./callout.marked";
 import { mathBlockExtension } from "./math-block.marked";
 import { mathInlineExtension } from "./math-inline.marked";
+import {
+  footnoteDefExtension,
+  footnoteRefExtension,
+  renderFootnotesList,
+  resetFootnotes,
+} from "./footnotes.marked";

 marked.use({
  renderer: {
@@ -34,7 +40,13 @@ marked.use({
 });

 marked.use({
-  extensions: [calloutExtension, mathBlockExtension, mathInlineExtension],
+  extensions: [
+    calloutExtension,
+    mathBlockExtension,
+    mathInlineExtension,
+    footnoteDefExtension,
+    footnoteRefExtension,
+  ],
 });

 marked.setOptions({ breaks: true });
@@ -48,5 +60,7 @@ export function markdownToHtml(
    .replace(YAML_FONT_MATTER_REGEX, "")
    .trimStart();

-  return marked.parse(markdown).toString();
+  resetFootnotes();
+  const html = marked.parse(markdown).toString();
+  return html + renderFootnotesList();
 }
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ export function htmlToMarkdown(html: string): string {
    iframeEmbed,
    image,
    video,
+    footnoteRef,
+    footnotesList,
  ]);
  return turndownService.turndown(html).replaceAll('<br>', ' ');
 }
@@ -203,6 +205,56 @@ function image(turndownService: _TurndownService) {
  });
 }

+function getFootnoteAnchor(node: HTMLElement): HTMLElement | null {
+  const child = node.firstElementChild as HTMLElement | null;
+  return child?.nodeName === 'A' && child.classList.contains('footnote-ref')
+    ? child
+    : null;
+}
+
+function footnoteRef(turndownService: _TurndownService) {
+  turndownService.addRule('footnoteRef', {
+    filter: function (node: HTMLInputElement) {
+      return node.nodeName === 'SUP' && !!getFootnoteAnchor(node);
+    },
+    replacement: function (_content: string, node: HTMLInputElement) {
+      const anchor = getFootnoteAnchor(node);
+      const number =
+        anchor.getAttribute('data-reference-number') || anchor.textContent;
+      return `[^${number}]`;
+    },
+  });
+}
+
+function footnotesList(turndownService: _TurndownService) {
+  turndownService.addRule('footnotesList', {
+    filter: function (node: HTMLInputElement) {
+      return node.nodeName === 'OL' && node.classList.contains('footnotes');
+    },
+    replacement: function (_content: string, node: HTMLInputElement) {
+      const items = Array.from(node.children).filter(
+        (child) => child.nodeName === 'LI',
+      );
+      const definitions = items.map((li, index) => {
+        const number =
+          (li.getAttribute('id') || '').replace('fn:', '') ||
+          String(index + 1);
+        const markdown = turndownService
+          .turndown((li as HTMLElement).innerHTML)
+          .trim();
+        // continuation lines need a 4-space indent to stay in the footnote
+        const [first, ...rest] = markdown.split('\n');
+        const body = [
+          first,
+          ...rest.map((line: string) => (line.trim() ? `    ${line}` : line)),
+        ].join('\n');
+        return `[^${number}]: ${body}`;
+      });
+      return `\n\n${definitions.join('\n')}\n\n`;
+    },
+  });
+}
+
 function video(turndownService: _TurndownService) {
  turndownService.addRule('video', {
    filter: function (node: HTMLInputElement) {
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { HeadingLevel, ShadingType } from 'docx';
+import { FootnoteReferenceRun, HeadingLevel, Paragraph, ShadingType } from 'docx';
 import { Node } from 'prosemirror-model';
 import {
  DocxSerializerAsync,
@@ -168,6 +168,27 @@ export const defaultAsyncNodes: NodeSerializerAsync = {
  pageBreak(state, node) {
    state.closeBlock(node, { pageBreakBefore: true });
  },
+  footnoteReference(state, node) {
+    const number =
+      Number(node.attrs?.referenceNumber) || state.$footnoteCounter + 1;
+    state.$footnoteCounter = Math.max(state.$footnoteCounter, number);
+    // seed an empty body so the reference stays valid even if the trailing
+    // footnotes list is missing; the footnotes node overwrites it with content
+    if (!state.footnotes[number]) {
+      state.footnotes[number] = { children: [new Paragraph('')] };
+    }
+    state.current.push(new FootnoteReferenceRun(number));
+  },
+  async footnotes(state, node) {
+    for (let i = 0; i < node.childCount; i += 1) {
+      const item = node.child(i);
+      const number =
+        Number(String(item.attrs?.id ?? '').replace('fn:', '')) || i + 1;
+      await state.footnoteDefinition(item, number);
+    }
+  },
+  // items are consumed by the footnotes handler above
+  footnote() {},
  // No usable static export representation: skip without failing.
  subpages() {},
  transclusionReference() {},
@@ -824,6 +824,29 @@ export class DocxSerializerStateAsync {
    this.current.push(new FootnoteReferenceRun(this.$footnoteCounter));
  }

+  // Fills the footnote body for an already-referenced footnote number from a
+  // node holding block content (Docmost keeps footnote text in a trailing
+  // list, separate from the inline reference).
+  async footnoteDefinition(node: Node, number: number) {
+    const { current, children, nextRunOpts, nextParentParagraphOpts } = this;
+    this.current = [];
+    this.children = [];
+    delete this.nextRunOpts;
+    delete this.nextParentParagraphOpts;
+
+    await this.renderContent(node);
+    this.footnotes[number] = {
+      children: this.children.filter(
+        (child): child is Paragraph => child instanceof Paragraph,
+      ),
+    };
+
+    this.current = current;
+    this.children = children;
+    this.nextRunOpts = nextRunOpts;
+    this.nextParentParagraphOpts = nextParentParagraphOpts;
+  }
+
  closeBlock(node: Node, props?: IParagraphOptions) {
    const paragraph = new Paragraph({
      children: this.current,
@@ -7,9 +7,19 @@ export interface TrailingNodeExtensionOptions {
 }

 function nodeEqualsType({ types, node }: { types: any, node: any }) {
+  if (!node) return false
  return (Array.isArray(types) && types.includes(node.type)) || node.type === types
 }

+// footnotes must stay the last doc child, so the trailing node goes before it
+function lastNodeBeforeFootnotes(doc: any) {
+  const lastChild = doc.lastChild
+  if (lastChild?.type.name === 'footnotes') {
+    return doc.childCount > 1 ? doc.child(doc.childCount - 2) : null
+  }
+  return lastChild
+}
+
 // @ts-ignore
 /**
 * Extension based on:
@@ -40,19 +50,23 @@ export const TrailingNode = Extension.create<TrailingNodeExtensionOptions>({
        appendTransaction: (_, __, state) => {
          const { doc, tr, schema } = state;
          const shouldInsertNodeAtEnd = plugin.getState(state);
-          const endPosition = doc.content.size;
          const type = schema.nodes[this.options.node]

          if (!shouldInsertNodeAtEnd) {
            return;
          }

+          const lastChild = doc.lastChild
+          const endPosition = lastChild?.type.name === 'footnotes'
+            ? doc.content.size - lastChild.nodeSize
+            : doc.content.size
+
          return tr.insert(endPosition, type.create());
        },
        state: {
          init: (_, state) => {
            try {
-              const lastNode = state.tr.doc.lastChild
+              const lastNode = lastNodeBeforeFootnotes(state.tr.doc)
              return !nodeEqualsType({ node: lastNode, types: disabledNodes })
            } catch (err){
              console.log(err)
@@ -70,7 +84,7 @@ export const TrailingNode = Extension.create<TrailingNodeExtensionOptions>({
              return value
            }

-            const lastNode = tr.doc.lastChild
+            const lastNode = lastNodeBeforeFootnotes(tr.doc)
            return !nodeEqualsType({ node: lastNode, types: disabledNodes })
          },
        },