Feature request/question: tufte side notes

[JonatanSahar]

Hi! Thanks so much for all of your work on this. Are you familiar with the concept of side notes as it was popularized by tufte's work? The idea is basically to have footnote-type information appear alongside the text, so the that you can view it it context. Would it be possible to replicate this behaviour using org-remark? I imagine there's some synchornized scrolling feature already existing in emacs that one could leverage for this?

Thanks again!

[nobiot]

To me, org-remark can already do this. See an example in the image below.

I imagine there's some synchornized scrolling feature already existing in emacs that one could leverage for this?

What you seem to be suggesting is some sort of automatic "movement" from opening one highlight to the next as you read through the main buffer. There is a convenient function for navigating through multiple highlights, from one to the other with a single key. This is not based on scrolling down the buffer, though. Refer to this part of the user manual.

I do not know of "synchronized scrolling feature" in Emacs. Perhaps it may be a good project for you or someone to try. I'd love to see what you come up with :)