# Blast From The Past 
Originally Posted Mar 6, 2018
Corrected From Old Platform

# Indexing
I will suggest that you index your own work. Due to Peakd's nature, your readers may lose a chapter or two in your story line, if you write fiction, or maybe miss a chapter in your documentary work. Even worse, you can lose track of what you are doing, especially if you write a lot, or write on a lot of different subjects . In order to make it easier on your readers, you might want to consider indexes or link-chains. These devices can help you readers move from post to another easily. Indexes can also help you find your older posts that you may wish to repost or to reference. I wouldn't suggest an index of everything that you write if you cover a lot of subjects all in one post, but a post indexing your fiction in one blog, and then another covering your criminal justice thoughts in another, may just be the ticket. It might also help YOU keep track of what your doing.

# A Sample Index
This sample screenshot shows indexing and writing new stories in combination. As I wrote the series, I would go back and update previous posts, sometimes due to outstanding commenter contribution, and other times to reinforce what I was doing in a later post. Another benefit to me is to be able to go back and search for an earlier post I wanted to reference.

***Making an index for this work made it easier for my readers to get the whole idea of what I was getting at AND made it easier for me to keep writing towards the end goal!***


![RGgukq5E6HBS4jpZso4oCYBWtoiJoy6BT2LzRVAJe3MC3oitC4YSKPXG8TVj5tvYmhsVjauZ3Qn8MdbwovucAPoJkjCAeotzjQ9v4Yc1PAqdUDHfK5BuevhskiRJp2A.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stevescoins/23tSxN2iU16UUwSdd6pBeagKtvR6PQf62Gpc814bTUYEMokvcRGuVgTsk6ZzgLrKH2zEN.png)



Interested in these titles? click [here](https://peakd.com/informationwar/@stevescoins/how-to-be-an-information-war-activist-series-index-and-tonight-s-discord-meeting) to read the stories

You can see another sample [index](https://peakd.com/writing/@stevescoins/current-fiction-index-8-11-2017), for fiction, organized in a different manner.

Please note these are indexes that were current...for 2018 !

# How to Build Your Own Indexes
Have a general outline of the way you want to share your information; obviously, fiction series would be from chapter to chapter, but real life research can be presented in many ways, and is usually so complex, that you may need to make some introductory posts so your readers can follow your more in-depth work with better understanding.

Then you start to gather your posts: There are several methods for doing so:

+ Bookmarking: You can bookmark your posts as you write them, and then do searches for those posts.
+ Hard Drive archiving - This is the most complicated, but IMO, the best way to keep your writing organized. I use Zotero, [(link)](https://peakd.com/steemit/@stevescoins/indexing-posts-saving-them-to-a-local-drive), to do this.
+ Unique Tagging: Peakd gives 10 slots for tags; use one of these slots to create a tag that will be unique to that category you wish to come back and look for later...for example, I could use stevescoinsfiction or stevescoins3 to make searching for these posts easier, as long as I kept track of which tags I was using.
+ Spreadsheets: Although I am a big advocate for spreadsheets for organization, ***I use Zotero*** (when I remember to) for writing organization. But for those folks that don't want to bother with Zotero, put together a spreadsheet!

![sssample.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stevescoins/23wMzGEUmQYy2GXtMDfJwKPDkNmtHBz56zDnGM5Eg26Lpny3YcZMuX96f8TUq74EYs2xm.jpg)


# Happy Writing!