Table of content / outline navigation on the right-side bar (similar to NimbusNote)

[cmdaltctr]

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND

I wish to use Anytype as my main source of notes. Often, the notes became quite lengthy. As the note becomes lengthier, I really like this specific feature that a note-taking app called NimbusNote has: an outline feature, which serves as a navbar for the note document. A click on the outline (h1, h2, h3) will scroll the page to the corresponding H tag on the document body.
I attached a screenshot of my notes with the outline nav mentioned earlier.

HOW COULD IT BE DONE

A simple toggle on the top bar on the right to toggle (show/hide) the outline navigation.

REAL WORLD USE CASES

As described earlier, it allows easier navigation in a lengthy note. For the moment, I use NimbusNote often to make notes, keep them and share them. For example, in a course note I have made, Chapter 1, you’d want to keep things in just one note page, so exporting it in PDF is much easier than keeping several notes for the same chapter (hence exporting several PDFs). Therefore, please see the attached img to illustrate the concept I mentioned.

RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

The table of contents is great, but you’d have to scroll all the way to the top again to find the topic heading you’re looking for.

ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

This will be useful when we share the note publically, where visitors can navigate through the document easily.

[Angelo]

Hey @cmdaltctr thanks for the request.

Since this has already been requested and ways to implement it have been discussed quite a bit, I will probably merge some of these topics together.

Allow sticky table of contents block (for quickly navigating between page sections)

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND If you set a page layout to full width, place a narrow table of contents block to the left and the rest of the content to the right (two-column-layout) it would be great to be able to set the table of contents block to sticky, so that it stays on top if you scroll down the page.

Table of Contents

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Not a problem, but a missing feature. Whilst we can create headers 3 levels deep, it would be great if we could add a table of contents at the top (or where ever) of the page. I tend to create some detailed notes with various levels of heading - particularly when designing a solution, being able to jump to a specific section within a page without needing to scroll would be beneficial. Describe the solution you’d like A simple tabl…

Another sidebar on the right

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND I recommend adding another sidebar on the right. HOW COULD IT BE DONE Same as it’s done with the current sidebar. REAL WORLD USE CASES This would especially be good with the new sidebar that we’ll be getting soon where we’ll be able to fully customize it with widgets. Usually the text or the canvas is in the middle and there is a lot of unused space on the left and right. Sidebars help mitigate this and Obsidian is a great example. One problem with obsidian is that you…

[cmdaltctr]

Thank you for the response. Has the team decided on anything yet?

[Jeroen]

There are SO MANY sidebar topics and replies on this forum haha.

I was looking for a post of mine where I showed of many sidebars for adding table of content, backlinks, local graph view and more. But I couldn’t find it.

I do wonder if there is any hint of what is in store for a right sidebar to be honest. If any at all.

[cmdaltctr]

Yeah, my main priority now is just the outline sidebar. Right now, it’s a mess if you have long documents. Some coding topics I kept in Anytype can be long; I have to scroll all the way up to find the related sub-topics (in the table of contents).