The contextgarden tells me under Command/placefootnotes Place unplaced footnotes. Has no visible effect if location=page, but can be used to place footnotes (or endnotes) made when location=text was in effect. However nothing happens for an \endnote, but it works for a \footnote. See minimal example. Minimal example: \setupfootnotes[location=text] \starttext abc\endnote{an endnote} \placefootnotes \stoptext Hans van der Meer ConTeXt ver: 2013.03.20 10:34 MKIV fmt: 2013.3.20 int: english/english