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\author{ Sam Wilson }

\date{ 2022 December 2 (Friday), 12:03AM }

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I used to write LaTeX in (I think) BBEdit\footnote{\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBEdit}} on MacOS. It had a great sidebar that would list all section titles of the current document. Now I use Kate\footnote{\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate\_(text\_editor)}}, and although it supposedly can do the same sort of thing I've never been able to get it to work properly.

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