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Q&A Best way to Write a Table of Contents for Awkward Pagination

I have a piccadilly journal that I use for taking notes on self-taught subjects and I have an awkward structure for pagination and page structure: Page numbers only exist on the right hand side...

2 answers  ·  posted 13y ago by Gio Borje‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T01:36:15Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/2826
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Gio Borje‭ · 2019-12-08T01:36:15Z (over 4 years ago)
I have a piccadilly journal that I use for taking notes on self-taught subjects and I have an awkward structure for pagination and page structure:

![Sample Page](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dviPF.jpg)

Page numbers only exist on the right hand side of the page and I read the **journal** from left to right; however, I read **journal entries** from right to left (in pages, not words). When a journal entry only spans a single page, I write a new entry on the left side of the journal with the respective date and title on the bottom but I never write new page numbers on the left page.

The journal is now ~56 pages (112 physical pages) and it's becoming difficult to find entries now. I want to list all of the entries in the back as a table of contents or index of some sort but I want to be as space-efficient as possible; how should I do this to be least-redundant (least repetition of page numbers or dates)?

P.S. If I sort them traditionally by pages, some pages will have two entries and others will only have one entry that spans two pages (asymmetrical). If I sort by date, I may have multiple entries per date that spans multiple pages (since I can write more than one journal entry in a day).

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2011-05-14T22:41:54Z (almost 13 years ago)
Original score: 2