@Miro — the Zettlekasten method recommends zettles remain small. So one way to avoid the massive pages requiring a table of contents is to avoid massive pages. And one way to achieve some division in large bodies is to use the hierarchies feature. You could for example, write a book where every chapter existed as part of a hierarchy.
I’m not disagreeing with the feature request, I’m just offering suggestions for effectively dealing with it in its absence. When I find a page that’s oversized, I generally feel it needs split apart.
I’d like to use Obsidian to do more longform writing inside the same system as my existing outline-based notes, but have a similar worry that my structure will be flattened when I return to my outline in Logseq.
Would a community plugin that told Logseq to parse Markdown heading levels (#, ## etc) as levels of an outliner hierarchy solve this problem? I guess you’d also have to work out how to tell it to deal with plain text blocks in between hierarchy levels (maybe always as children of the most recent header?).
Does a plugin like that exist, and if not how hard would it be to make one?
No disrespect to hkgnp who built the TOC plugin - but I’ve tried it several times, and have not managed to make it work (it’s not the app - it’s me - just don’t have the patience to figure out where to place each chapter heading).
I do two things - both of which are ‘clunky’ - I set up indexes of page links for subject areas and fastidiously post a backlink at the top of each page to the index (they are mostly automatically posted on the bottom of the page as well). Then I also do what was recommended above - ensure that each section is indented properly - bold or italicize the headings, and then collapse them to form a table of contents so I can get to each section easily.
Would be great to have a quick slash command to make a topic sentence or paragraph-heading a linked TOC item at the top of the page. Would also LOVE to have a more layered folder structure in the left window (apparently an anathema to the right-brain link enthusiasts) but would help those us with burgeoning, out-of-control lists of pages and favourites.