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Also, number all the pages except the last two, which don't need numbers because they're where you will keep an index by topic. Even across multiple volumes, t
by throwanem 5y ago
Also, number all the pages except the last two, which don't need numbers because they're where you will keep an index by topic.
Even across multiple volumes, that index will serve the same purpose for your notes as it does for a database, this after all being whence RDBMS designers borrowed the term: an index allows you to perform lookups in sublinear time.
- maleldil 5y agoBy indices, do you mean reverse indices like at the end of textbooks?
- throwanem 5y agoMy notebook indexes map from a topic to the numbers of pages with relevant content, in the conventional fashion. I don't know what a reverse index is in the sense you mean here, but I would like to find out. Would you mind giving a brief description? I tried some searches, but found no useful result.
- maleldil 5y agoI think this might be a second language thing. My understanding of index would be the one you have at the beginning of the book, with the chapters and their page numbers. The reverse index appears at the end of the book and lists topics and the pages where they appear. For example, in the index you'd have chapters: 3. Data structures 25 [...] 7. Graphs 154 And in the reverse index: trees: 25, 154 But maybe those are just the table of contents and index?
- throwanem 5y agoAh, I see. Those are indeed the names I'm accustomed as a native anglophone to use for those respective sections. edit: Commenting before coffee, I mixed up "anglophile" and "anglophone," intending the latter.