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# Keep track of your labels with showlabels

**Author: James Allen (January 2012)**

Whenever I'm writing long LaTeX documents I always find myself jumping backwards and forwards in the code trying to remember what I named a `\label`. To save me losing my place in the code I use the [`showlabels`](https://ctan.org/pkg/showlabels?lang=en) package which displays the name of the label next to the corresponding equation. Then I can look in the PDF where it's easier the find the equation I'm looking for and I don't need to jump around in my code. It works on nearly everything you can assign a `\label` to. Marvellous!

**Usage**

In your preamble put:

```latex
\usepackage{showlabels}
```

**Example output**

![ShowlabelsExample.png](/files/t5Waf6LGeVTlYLOmkq6o)

**Options**

You can provide an option to showlabels to tell it where to place the labels:

```latex
\usepackage[inline]{showlabels}
```

Available options are (taken from the [documentation](https://ctan.org/pkg/showlabels?lang=en)):

* `outer` \[default]—all notes are placed in the text's outer margin
* `inner`—inner margin
* `left`—left margin
* `right`—right margin
* `marginal` \[default]—put notes in the margin
* `inline`—put notes inline, as much as possible, and ignore any of the margin-placement options above
* `nolabel`—do not insert a marginal note for `\label` commands
* `draft` \[default]—does nothing, partner of...
* `final`—turns off all the package's functionality

Note that `showlabels` should be included after the packages `amsmath` and `hyperref` to work correctly with them. See the [official documentation (PDF)](http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/showlabels/showlabels.pdf) for more details.


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