By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: May 2, 2017
The ability to create notes in the margin (also referred to as “margin notes” or “marginal notes”) is a really nice/cool feature in LaTeX. In the words of Edward Tufte, it lets you keep your notes near your content, which is a good thing.
Creating the margin notes themselves is very easy. Here’s how to create a margin note with the LaTeX \marginpar
command:
\marginpar{This note will appear in the margin.}