A content-based system (like a book’s table of contents) would mean that you would have to adhere to a single structure forever (decades in advance!).
Potential definition of a table of contents: A table of contents is a linear ordering or traversal of of specific material which could potentially be found within an index.
A content-based system (like a book’s table of contents) would mean that you would have to adhere to a single structure forever (decades in advance!).
Starting a zettelkasten practice with a table of contents as the primary organization is difficult due to planning in advance.
https://github.com/kevboh/longform
A plugin for Obsidian that helps you write and edit novels, screenplays, and other long projects.
a Structure Note can make use of a TOC form, a normal table, a mind map, a flow diagram, a straight list, or even a picture.
Structure notes can take a variety of forms including lists, diagrams, mind maps, tables, and tables of contents.
https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/103kpxs/table_of_contents_for_heydes_technik_des/
Table of Contents for Heyde's Technik des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens (1931)
I've seen a copy of a version of the table of contents for Heyde's book in German, though I suspect it was from a version from the 1960s or after, though the copy I saw wasn't specified. Does anyone have a copy of the first edition that they could send me a photocopy of the table of contents for a project I'm working on? If you've got copies of later editions those might be useful/helpful as well.
Heyde, Johannes Erich. Technik des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens: zeitgemässe Mittel und Verfahrungsweisen. Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1931.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Bendat, Julius S. Principles and Applications of Random Noise Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1958.
My copy of this book from 1958 has a table of contents with numberings for chapter, section, and subsections.
Eg: 1.2-1 Constant Parameter Linear Systems
Milton,for example, wrote more or less lengthy headings, or "Arguments," as he called them, for each book of Paradise Lost.
https://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/08/curating-my-blog-archive/
I like the overall look and effect done here to create a table of contents in WordPress, but it seems like some quirky gymnastics to pull it off. How might this be done in a more straightforward way? Are there any plugins for WordPress that could create a page that keeps the categories and the descriptions? And particularly a page that primarily only shows articles and not other content types?
Link this to my work on my own index at https://boffosocko.com/about/index/
Three types of linking can be distinguished:a) References in the context of a larger structural outline: When beginning a major line of thoughtLuhmann sometimes noted on the first card several of the aspects to be addressed and marked themby a capital letter that referred to a card (or set of consecutive cards) that was numbered accordinglyand placed at least in relative proximity to the card containing the outline. This structure comesclosest to resembling the outline of an article or the table of contents of a book and therefore doesn’treally use the potentials of the collection as a web of notes.b) Collective references: At the beginning of a section devoted to a specific subject area, one can oftenfind a card that refers to a number of other cards in the collection that have some connection withthe subject or concept addressed in that section. A card of this kind can list up to 25 references andwill typically specify the respective subject or concept in addition to the number. These referencescan indicate cards that are related by subject matter and in close proximity or to cards that are farapart in other sections of the collection, the latter being the normal case.c) Single references: At a particular place in a normal note Luhmann often made a reference to anothercard in the collection that was also relevant to the special argument in question; in most cases the re
ferred card is located at an entirely different place in the file, frequently in the context of a completely different discussion or subject.
Niklas Luhmann's index card system had three different types of links. Direct links to individual notes, outlines with links to cards (similar to tables of contents or maps of content), and what Schmidt (2018) refers to as "collective references". These collective references sound a lot like search queries for related topics that have links to a variety of resources/cards related to a particular topic and sound like a table of contents, but without a specific hierarchy.
First, I go to existing structure notes. They are notes about notes, and therefore they map structures in my archive.
Structure notes are notes about notes. Sounds similar to Maps of Content (MoC) or Tables of Contents in some sense. No one seems to have a strong or consistent name for this practice.
Some thoughts about leaving space in new notebooks, especially for one's future self: