Markdown to create pages and table of contents?

Question

I started to use markdown to take notes.

I use marked to view my markdown notes and its beautiful.

But as my notes get longer I find it diff

Answer 1

You can generate it using this bash one-liner. Assumes your markdown file is called FILE.md.

echo "## Contents" ; echo ; 
cat FILE.md | grep '^## ' | grep -v Contents | sed 's/^## //' | 
  while read -r title ; do 
    link=$(echo $title | tr 'A-Z ' 'a-z-') ; 
    echo "- [$title](#$link)" ; 
    done

Answer 2

On Gitlab, markdown supports this : [[_TOC_]]

Answer 3

I wrote a python script that parses a markdown file and outputs a table of contents as a markdown list: md-to-toc

Unlike other scripts I've found, md-to-toc correctly supports duplicate titles. It also doesn't require an internet connection, so it works on any md file, not just those available from a public repo.

Answer 4

# Table of Contents
1. [Example](#example)
2. [Example2](#example2)
3. [Third Example](#third-example)

## Example [](#){name=example}
## Example2 [](#){name=example2}
## [Third Example](#){name=third-example}

If you use markdown extra, don't forget you can add special attributes to links, headers, code fences, and images.
https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#spe-attr

Answer 5

MultiMarkdown 4.7 has a {{TOC}} macro that inserts a table of contents.

Answer 6

I just coded an extension for python-markdown, which uses its parser to retrieve headings, and outputs a TOC as Markdown-formatted unordered list with local links. The file is

• md_toc.py (was md_toc.py)

... and it should be placed in markdown/extensions/ directory in the markdown installation. Then, all you have to do, is type anchor <a> tags with an id="..." attribute as a reference - so for an input text like this:

$ cat test.md 
Hello
=====

## <a id="sect one"></a>SECTION ONE ##

something here

### <a id='sect two'>eh</a>SECTION TWO ###

something else

#### SECTION THREE

nothing here

### <a id="four"></a>SECTION FOUR

also...

... the extension can be called like this:

$ python -m markdown -x md_toc test.md 
* Hello
    * [SECTION ONE](#sect one)
        * [SECTION TWO](#sect two)
            * SECTION THREE
        * [SECTION FOUR](#four)

... and then you can paste back this toc in your markdown document (or have a shortcut in your text editor, that calls the script on the currently open document, and then inserts the resulting TOC in the same document).

Note that older versions of python-markdown don't have a __main__.py module, and as such, the command line call as above will not work for those versions.