Basic stuff here, Adobe. We've been asking for this for years.

Do I mean the same:
https://forums.adobeprerelease.com/indesign/discussion/2253/running-footnotes-within-book-documents-does-not-work-proper#latest

Why isn't this the default way that footnotes work and then you can choose to restart numbering per text box/page/section if you'd like? Come on Adobe, listen to your users please! This is a MASSIVE pain the bum when setting documents.

I noticed now that I commented on this thread on October 2020 .. Still waiting 😭😭

A half-decade on and we still await a response 😭😭😭

This feature is obviously way overdue.

For goodness sake, add this feature! If much-maligned Microsoft Word can do this, why can't Indesign?!

I assume Adobe just forgot about this problem. Let this be a quick reminder for them. Hey Adobe: wake up!

i discover a run around this problem that is bugging me eversince i use indesign. since I am not submitting my indesign file to my client (only PDF) i discover that i can edit my footnotes in PDF and make it run continously which the indesign is not offering. just export your file from indesign to PDF and edit image and text there. easy as a breeze. you can now submit your PDF file to a client or submit it to printing. done.

Still need this improvement... the ability to continue footnote numbering between stories is really needed. Seems like folks have been asking for this for a while! PLEASE

Is this really still a thing? I am dying right now. I just divided my 200+-page document into separate frames because every change was having a terrible ripple effect. Now my footnotes won't flow continuously?! How is this not possible?

It's hilarious that InDesign can't do that, such a shame. Take the money and run....

Really?? Still nothing? Sorta feels like indesign is given last man power that's left lol

here to support this issue!! same for endnotes

Come on, man! This is 2021! You can't make footnotes/endnotes a "document-based" thing? I have to make my documents as "accessible" as possible. That means sectioning (stories). I make each story a single threaded frame, as you should, but the footnotes are a decade behind.

2021 and still waiting...

FYI: Endnotes are possible, but only in the indd. document. Yes, endnotes for non-fiction books are a must. If you use the Book Format (.indb), Adobe doesn't offer it. As a publisher, the advice I got from other users was to use a regular InDesign document (.indd) to enable standard endnotes, both for print and ePub. The document will be long, but the other users said it would still process OK for endnotes, TOC, chapters, and index, perhaps with some sluggishness. It could be slower if you have 1,000 pages, but OK for 200 to 600 pages, with some waiting for the TOC or index, etc. to process. Now, if you can settle for chapter notes or footnotes, then you can use the book.indb format. But, for many books with a lot of citations, or long comments, or both, like mine, having notes at the end avoids ruining the flow of the book. Who wants several pages of notes after each chapter, interrupting the reading flow, before you start the next chapter? Not most readers. Help us out Adobe, and make your book function for all books, not just picture books or children's books.

Yes please! Just came across this issue and I agree. Much needed.

I have the same problem. I need continues footnote numeration in the whole document without having to link the text frames.

That's a shame! my client wants the footnotes continuously...