Table of Contents

🍒 Why Is the Table of Contents (TOC) Important?

🍒 Bullet Styles

🍒 Emoji Bullet

🍒 How to create a clickable link

🍒 Link to Top

🍒 Conclusion

Why Is the Table of Contents (TOC) Important?

Do you want to increase the chance that people find your article?

Add an attractive table of content!

I’m not an experienced writer but my articles are getting pretty good traction. Is that because I’m a good writer? No, absolutely not, I know that! Then I wondered why.

Of course, you need good content, but I always added a TOC in my articles.

The TOC serves many purposes:

❀ It gives users an overview of the document’s contents and organization and what they are getting from your content.

❀ If you provide a clickable TOC, it allows readers to go directly to a specific section of your content.

❀ I’m not an SEO guru, but a simple search shows you that your TOC improves the search ranking.

I will show you how to add an attractive TOC to your article.

Let’s start making your TOC. In this article, Return and Enter key are synonymous.

Bullet Styles

You can use a dash, -, or numbers to create a list. If you use Return, the line height is higher than a list created with SHIFT + Return.

Unordered list using the Return key. Image by the author.

Ordered list using numbers and the Return key. Image by the author.

Unordered list using ∙ and SHIFT+Return key. Image by the author.

I prefer SHIFT + Enter because it takes up less space. Also, it allows you to use symbols or emojis you want. ★, π, 👽, 💩.

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