Why would we want to do this? Because Google Docs is great for notes that are generated and shared among many people. This would include things like staff meeting notes, department or grade-level meeting notes, or even project or lesson notes you share with a co-teacher. Keeping everything organized in Google Docs? Not as simple, especially if you have multiple documents of notes for each meeting. How do you find what you need to find across multiple documents in multiple locations? While Google Drive is great, it can also quickly become an organization nightmare without careful planning.
That's where a Table of Contents comes in. This allows you to store all of your notes in one document, and then link to the various sections depending on how your organize them (by date, topic, etc.). There are actually two ways of creating a Table of Contents. The first is shown in the video above, and uses header text to generate an automatic list of links to each of those headers by going to Insert > Table of Contents. The second takes more work, but is also handy for creating links to specific parts of your document. For this, you create a "bookmark," and the video below shows how to do that.
What do you think? Do you have different strategies for keeping your notes organized? Have ideas for future videos and posts? Let us know in the comments below!
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