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The earliest reference to an index in the English language is from 1593 [0]: I don't really think it qualifies as a "A little known hack from Japan". [0]: http

• yzzxy 12y ago
  The article describes a novel system subtly but importantly different from a simple index.
• kgen 12y ago
  I don't think the hack is the index as much as it is the visual skip-list of sorts, and then being able to jump to the page with the content without having to do a binary search of sorts for the page number you are looking for. That said, physical journaling is a hard habit to keep :) I feel like I've tried every trick under the sun. Bullet Journal seemed to work for a while, http://www.bulletjournal.com/ http://www.bulletjournal.com/ [no affiliation], but it's still tough to rigorously keep an index up to date when you just want to jot down something quickly.
• themodelplumber 12y ago
  This seems to be a very specific type of index; can you find early examples of the kind demonstrated in the article?
• lnanek2 12y ago
  I don't see any mention in that entire wiki page of marking the edges of pages vertically for reference when looking at the book from the side. In fact it flat out misses it in the examples, "pointers are typically page numbers, paragraph numbers or section numbers" all of which require you to flip through pages manually instead of just looking at the side and getting a visual.