Trying org-tufte for public notes

On <2026-04-28 Tue> I tried to add footnotes to notes in Textpod. It works, {C-c C-x f} adds a footnote link. Then publishing works normally, just make sure footnotes heading is level down of the published note (usually h2).

But, footnotes looks ugly, and rendered at the bottom. I want sidenotes, as in Tufte CSS. I remember org-tufte exporter, so decided to try. Apparently, there's newer version exists - Zilong-Li/org-tufte. Let's try it.

(use-package org-tufte :ensure nil)

Export to plain HTML looks fine, side-notes as footnotes work fine this is side note, but in Org file it's actually a footnote! . But when exporting into Textpod – body only, + custom HTML and JS injected – it breaks.

Okay, time to some vibe-coding. New package textpod-org-tufte.el.