Place the book's table of contents in Scrapbox

from Wellhead 2022-01-20 Place the book’s table of contents in Scrapbox

• What is the best way to put the table of contents of a book in Scrapbox?
  • For user convenience, it is preferable to have everything expanded down to the subheadings, just like in a book, and to be able to click to jump to them.
  • But if you do that with Symmetrical links in Scrapbox, all pages are connected with the table of contents as a hub, which is not good from Scrapbox’s point of view.
  • I had no choice but to try to make each hierarchy into a page, chapter, section, paragraph… but I don’t think it’s a good prospect and it doesn’t seem to work at all.
    • [/nishio/Root of the book](https://scrapbox.io/nishio/Root of the book)
  • I guess I’ll just use a bulleted expanded view like a normal book and use the external link notation for one-way links…

from Wellhead 2022-01-23 Place the book’s table of contents in Scrapbox

• The problem with doing bookish navigation is not “no one-way links” but “two-hop links.”
  • what does that mean?
  • If you link from the table of contents to every page, it’s going to be a giant link!”
    • That’s what a table of contents is for.”
  • “If you link to each page from the table of contents, you’ll get reverse links from each page as well!”
    • If reverse links only occur to the table of contents page, there is no problem, but isn’t it rather convenient?
  • The essence of the problem is “the creation of 2hop links from each page to all other pages via the table of contents page.”
    • And if you don’t show smaller links first or something, “the big links overshadow all the links.”
    • No, if you only link to each page from the table of contents page,2 hop linkは生まれないはずです
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        • [Hierarchical links should not be 2 hop links.
    • 2 hop link is when the table of contents page link is posted from each page.
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    • Oh my! I didn’t know!
      • Scrapbox’s concept of links is too difficult.
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      • You’re right.
      • Thank you for confirming.
        • I’m glad you’re right.
  • So it’s counterintuitive to make a table of contents page.
    • I tried it and it looks good.
      • [/nishio/(0.1.2) Benefits of reading this book](https://scrapbox.io/nishio/(0.1.2) Benefits of reading this book)
      • No 2hop link is created via Table of Contents
    • I was actually thinking of adding breadcrumbs to the side of each page, but decided to hold off on that (maybe make them one-way links?). - Disable 2 hop link - Oh I see, it opens in a separate tab… - Well, as for views, I don’t think the official implementation will meet my needs, so I’m going to tweak it with custom views.

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