GiacomoLaw 133 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 I have a large note, a few thousand words long, which has notes on topics. For example, in my geography notebook I have one note for tectonics, coasts, etc: Similar for history and economics too. I am wondering if I can create a table at the top of the note to let me jump to the various sections? Or would it be better to split the note up into topics, and then create a table of contents for the topic with a link to each subtopic? Thanks! 2 Link to comment
GiacomoLaw 133 Posted April 26, 2019 Author Share Posted April 26, 2019 I've split them up into subtopics, then I compile the notes together into an overview note, and link them in a master note like this: Works pretty well, I will do this from now on! Link to comment
Level 5* EdH 1,668 Posted April 26, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted April 26, 2019 As you've discovered, you cannot create links in Evernote notes that are like the HTML anchor tag that will take you to a specific spot in the note. I don't know how you made your TOC note above, but you can select all the notes you want, right-click, then click the Create Table of Contents Note button. Any additions or changes in the future though would have to be manual, or whack the TOC note and create a new one with more/different notes. In Windows, you can find your TOC notes fast. Just search for the following: Quote sourceurl:"file://Table*" That won't work for Mac created TOC notes. It doesn't populate the URL field. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,672 Posted April 26, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted April 26, 2019 6 hours ago, GiacomoLaw said: I've split them up into subtopics, then I compile the notes together into an overview note, and link them in a master note like this: Good to see you worked it out. My feeling is it's better to has smaller notes; less scope for editing mishaps. You also might check out automatic updates to your ToC notes. This is supported by third party Filterize; I use scripting (Mac) 1 Link to comment
GiacomoLaw 133 Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 20 hours ago, EdH said: As you've discovered, you cannot create links in Evernote notes that are like the HTML anchor tag that will take you to a specific spot in the note. I don't know how you made your TOC note above, but you can select all the notes you want, right-click, then click the Create Table of Contents Note button. Any additions or changes in the future though would have to be manual, or whack the TOC note and create a new one with more/different notes. In Windows, you can find your TOC notes fast. Just search for the following: That won't work for Mac created TOC notes. It doesn't populate the URL field. Thanks, that what I did but I put them all in a subject note. Thanks for the URL, I'll be using that! 14 hours ago, DTLow said: Good to see you worked it out. My feeling is it's better to has smaller notes; less scope for editing mishaps. You also might check out automatic updates to your ToC notes. This is supported by third party Filterize; I use scripting (Mac) Unfortunately I'm on Windows, so no scripting available. I'm just going to add them to my subject note as I go along, and when I finish a topic, make a new merged 'master' note, along with the separate subjects. Thanks! Link to comment
DShoxa79 0 Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 I too have been wanting to do this for a long time. I tried different combinations of merging the notes than doing the TOC and finally figured that since they are simply HTML Anchor/Jump hyperlinks. Therefore, while there is a manual way to do it, it isn't worth the opportunity cost for the time it would take in an example such as this one above. I am just started to read on the topic but I would be greatly surprised if this hasn't been solved or have Link to comment
haughki 9 Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Since it currently has the most votes, I nominate the following post as the main post for this feature. Please cast your votes here: 6 Link to comment
herrmadbeef 4 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Since we are adding Markdown support. It would be nice to be able to create a table of contents via markdown Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11948245/markdown-to-create-pages-and-table-of-contents ``` # Table of contents 1. [Introduction](#introduction) 2. [Some paragraph](#paragraph1) 1. [Sub paragraph](#subparagraph1) 3. [Another paragraph](#paragraph2) ## This is the introduction <a name="introduction"></a> Some introduction text, formatted in heading 2 style ## Some paragraph <a name="paragraph1"></a> The first paragraph text ### Sub paragraph <a name="subparagraph1"></a> This is a sub paragraph, formatted in heading 3 style ## Another paragraph <a name="paragraph2"></a> ``` 2 Link to comment
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