The Index

When you want to see everything you’ve got and how it connects, open the Index. Every document in the project is shown as a card. Choose View ▸ Index (⇧⌘L), or the button in the running head, and it opens on the document you’re reading. Press ⇧⌘L or esc to go back to the document.

The Index: the deck, and the link line crossing the card in front

Two lines of cards

The cards sit in two lines that cross.

  • The deck runs from the top left to the bottom right and holds every document. ↑ and ↓ go through it.
  • The link line crosses the card in front. The documents it links to run up to the top right, and the documents that link to it run down to the bottom left. ← and → go along it.

So you can walk from document to document by their links without opening any of them. The caption shows the card in front and how it relates to where you started. Press Return, or click Open, to open it.

You can swipe or scroll as well, up and down for the deck and left and right for the links.

Ordering the deck

Choose an order at the top of the Index:

The Index in folder order

  • Connections: the documents that link to the current one, the document itself, the documents it links to, then their neighbours, then the rest by folder.
  • Folders: in the order of the contents, with a divider for each folder.
  • Recent: the most recently edited first, with the time on each card.

Type the first letters of a title to jump to it.

List

If you’d rather read than browse, the List button shows the same documents as a plain list.

The Index as a list, with the chosen document’s links beside it