Is it possible to have a Table of Contents (ToC) on the left of the page?

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Hello all,
I have seen the tool to make toc in the page.
import {toc} from “@nebrius/indented-toc”

But what if I want a toc docked on the left of the page which would not move with mouse?

Thanks.
Scarlett

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Yup, that would be great. You may want to add your thoughts to the existing feature request here: Auto-Create a "Table of Content" · Issue #67 · observablehq/feedback · GitHub

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Hi Cobus, Thank you for the suggestion. I have post it on the page.

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Just in case you haven’t seen it — we do have a minimap sidebar pane, opened with this button on the right, which lists the names of cells (and shows connections between them if a cell is focused):

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But yeah, it doesn’t show headings, like from Markdown.

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Hi tophtucker, thank you for the information that I didn’t know. It more or less can help me finding my target cells efficiently.

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Reviving this, rather than starting a new discussion since the notebook I’m sharing was based on the Table of Contents function by @mbostock @mbostock/toc. For anyone who is writing a lot of Markdown text and would like it to have a cell of numbered endnotes which are automatically updated and renumbered regardless of composition order, please check out NBS: numbered endnotes: @shadoof/nbs.