Tailquill: footnotes and endnotes for Google Docs™

Google Docs has footnotes but no endnotes, and its footnotes ignore your font. Tailquill adds endnotes you can undo, footnotes that match your text, notes you can cite twice, and real Word endnotes for your publisher.

What it does

• Footnotes to endnotes, and back: every footnote becomes a numbered marker (superscript or [1]) linked to a note in a Notes section, at the end of the document or of each chapter. Add footnotes later and convert again; the numbers stay in order. Restore turns them back into real Google Docs footnotes in the same places.
• Numbers that restart in each chapter: each Heading 1 chapter gets its own Notes section starting at 1.
• Footnotes that match your text: one click sets every footnote to your body font, size and line spacing, or a size or two smaller.
• Cite a note again: insert "see note 3" or a repeat marker that updates when notes are added or moved.
• Review: list every note with its first words, jump to it, and highlight every marker.
• Real Word endnotes: turn the footnotes in a .docx you downloaded into true Microsoft Word endnotes, in your browser.

How it works

1. Write with ordinary footnotes in Google Docs (Insert > Footnote).
2. Open Extensions > Tailquill and choose Convert footnotes to endnotes, or Open Tailquill for the options.
3. Edit > Undo, version history or Restore real footnotes reverse it.

Free and Pro

Converting up to 25 notes per document, restoring footnotes, matching footnotes to the body text and reviewing notes are free. Tailquill Pro costs $9.99, paid once, and is bought from inside the add-on: any number of notes, chapter restarts, cite a note again and real Word endnotes. There's no subscription and nothing renews.

Private by design

Tailquill works on the document you have open, under your own account. It never needs the document shared and never asks you to make it "anyone with the link can edit". There's no server, no tracking and no analytics; the only outside request is checking a Pro license key with Gumroad, and the .docx tool never uploads your file. Read the privacy policy and terms.

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Google Docs™ is a trademark of Google LLC. Microsoft Word is a trademark of the Microsoft group of companies. Tailquill is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google or Microsoft.