Show a table of contents in your articles

Add an outline of your article's structure to make navigation easier for readers.

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To make it easier for your customers to navigate the content of your Help Center articles, you can include a table of contents.

You can do this with the support of the block "Table of contents" in Notion. Let's see how to create a table of contents and how to use it in your articles.

Table of contents 👇

  1. Structure your article with headings
  2. Add a table of content to your articles
  3. Navigate to an article section
  4. What’s next?

Structure your article with headings

Before adding the table of contents, make sure your article is structured using headings and sub-headings block in Notion, like H1, H2, and H3.

In this way, when you add a table of content, it will automatically be generated from the headings in your article.

Add a table of content to your articles

When editing an article, you can add a table of contents. To do this:

  • Start typing /table of to see the Table of Contents option in Advanced Blocks. Press enter when it's selected.
  • This generates a table of contents showing all your article headings.

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Navigate to an article section

On your help center articles, when you have a table of contents, you can navigate to a specific section using the TOC. Click on any heading in your table of contents, and it will take you to that section of the article.

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What’s next?

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