How to make sidenotes flow to the next page using Peter Kahrel's script?

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November 4, 2025
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Hi! Peter Kehrel's script works fine but if I have a lots of sidenotes on the page they just overlap. Stack script doesn't work because there is too many of them. I want them to flow on the next page or any other solution that could work fine. Can anybody help with this issue?

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Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

Hi Ivana. The sidenotes are anchored frames so they can't split across pages and they must appear on the page where they're anchored. In situations such as yours, maybe a better approach is to convert the footnotes to endnotes, then run the endnote story on the document pages in the margins. I'm not aware of any scripts that can do that.

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ivana_klementAuthor

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Hi Peter, thank you for your kind answer. Is it possibile to have sidenotes on most of the pages and footnotes on certain pages where there is too much notes?

p.s. I apologize for mispeling your surname 🙂

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

Footnotes and endnotes are entirely different text streams so you can't combine InDesign's foot- and endnotes in a single stream. But you can have the endnote story running in margins, and where necessary you can fake one or more footnotes by adding a text frame at the foot of the page and threading it into the endnote story.

But this is more an editorial problem than a technical one. In my experience, when an author needs that much material in notes, they are asked by the publisher to rewrite the text to incorporate those notes into the text. (Apart from some legal texts, which have can have footnotes that go on for pages; but they typically don't do margin notes and they don't have to have the footnote reference on the same page as the note.)

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