If only I could have it in any other way than emacs...
Makes me wonder, since there is evil mode and opinionated Emacs disributions like Spacemacs und Doom Emacs, whether there is a potential for an org-mode focussed and optimized Emacs distribution.
Ease of use should be one of the core goals, then.
I would love that but then again org-noter and pdftools compliment base org-mode nicely.
Yeah, Org mode has supported footnotes since 2008: