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Table of contents

Glyph gives you two ways to navigate headings: a floating rail on the side of the note, and an inline outline you place in the document.

Floating table of contents

Turn it on in Settings → General → Table of contents.

The floating rail appears when the note has two or more headings. Notes with zero or one heading show nothing.

Use the rail

  1. Open a note that has at least two headings.
  2. Look for the thin marks along the side of the editor.
  3. Hover a mark to preview that heading.
  4. Click a mark to jump to that heading.

Click the active heading mark again to open or close the outline panel. Press Escape to dismiss the preview or close the panel.

The floating TOC stays with the note as you scroll. It does not write anything into the Markdown file.

Inline table of contents

An inline TOC lives inside the note. Glyph keeps it in sync with the current headings.

Insert with slash

  1. Switch to Rich mode.
  2. Put the cursor in an empty paragraph.
  3. Type / and choose Table of contents from the slash menu.

Insert with a marker

In Raw Markdown (or anywhere you edit the source), add this on its own line:

<!-- glyph:toc -->

In Rich mode, Glyph shows the marker as a Table of contents block with a live outline of the note’s headings. Click a heading in that outline to jump to it.

Remove an inline TOC

In Rich mode, click the × on the Table of contents block to remove it. That deletes the marker from the note.

You can also delete the <!-- glyph:toc --> line in Raw mode.

What the outline includes

Both floating and inline outlines read headings from the note. Add, rename, or remove headings and the outline updates.

Use headings (Heading 1–3 from the slash menu, or # / ## / ### in Markdown) so the outline stays useful. Body text alone does not create TOC entries.

When to use which

Use the floating TOC when you want navigation without changing the file. Leave it on in Settings and it follows every note that has enough headings.

Use an inline TOC when the outline should appear in the note itself: for readers, exports, or a fixed place at the top of a long document. You can keep both. The setting controls the rail; the marker controls the in-note block.

The info sidebar Outline pane is another way to jump headings without inserting a marker.

Quick checks

  • Floating TOC missing? Confirm Settings → General → Table of contents is on, and the note has two or more headings.
  • Inline TOC empty or stale? Make sure headings exist in the same note, then wait a moment for the live outline to refresh.
  • Slash insert unavailable? Slash commands run only in an empty paragraph in Rich mode.