Medium hack

How To Add a Table of Contents to Your Medium Stories

By using this Chrome extension

Elin Melaas
2 min readSep 10, 2022

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Example of a Table of Contents. Screenshot by the author.

Why adding a Table of Contents

If your story is long, creating a Table of Contents can give the reader overview and visibility of your entire story. The Table of Contents is clickable and allows your reader to go directly to the part he or she wants to read.

The Table of Contents from the image above is a screenshot from this story: Take Your Writing to the Next Level With These 9 User-Friendly Free Writing Tools.

TOC Medium

Installing a Chrome extension that makes it super easy to add your Table of Contents. The extension is called TOC Medium, and you can download it for free HERE. After that, you are all set.

Here’s how to Add a Table of Contents

Press the + on the left to see the menu. Then press the three vertical dots:

Created by the author in Canva.

Thanks to Vinicius De Antoni

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Elin Melaas

Books, reading, health, parenting, and coffee 📚 MSc in Medical Physics and BSc in Nutrition. Editor at Illumination. Owner of Hooked on Books.