Enhancing Document Navigation with Linked Headers and TOC Summary

Mariena Q. · 2025-10-21T21:12:28.008Z

One of the features that would help me the most right now is the ability to link to various headers so users can jump around the document. This is for building out education content which can be long and dense, so the ability to move quickly between sections, and to be able to add a TOC style summary with links at the top will be transformative for the UX. The final output will generally be PDF so the links would need to work in those exports as well. 🙏

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Mariena Q.
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wait.... this this supported already? you can't auto complete search for headers but maybe this hack allows it? https://ideas.gamma.app/ideas/p/allow-anchor-linking-within-gammas-solved
Amanda R.
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Yep, this is possible already. 😁
Mariena Q.
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going to do some testing with agent to see if it's able to help setup a table of contents and "back to top" navigation on each card as it will be tedious to do manually 🤞
Amanda R.
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That’s a good idea, I’m curious how agent will do
Deepak B.
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You mean bookmark. right? Mariena Q.
Mariena Q.
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nope. not sure what you mean by bookmark. unfortunately agent isn't able to setup card links properly so only manual TOCs and "back to top" links for now
Deepak B.
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Mariena Q. Amanda R. Nikolas P. User Story: Seamless Bookmarking and Navigation As a user, I want the ability to create bookmarks or navigation anchors across different types of content—documents, presentations, and web pages—so I can jump directly to specific sections and easily return to where I started. This enhances navigation, reduces friction, and supports a more interactive reading or presentation experience. In other products, this capability already exists in distinct forms. Microsoft Word lets users mark locations using Insert → Bookmark and link text to those spots for quick movement within a document. HTML uses anchor tags (id and href="#id") to enable in-page scrolling between sections. PowerPoint’s Summary Zoom presents a visual navigation dashboard where each slide appears as a clickable thumbnail; selecting one slide to that slide and then automatically returns to the summary view when done and clicking on 'return' Together, these examples demonstrate how intelligent bookmarking and navigation create a fluid, user-friendly experience across complex content.
Amanda R.
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Deepak B. Mariena Q. I see your points here. Can you help us understand how bookmarking a parts of your Gamma would behave differently than copying a link to a card/the Table of Contents in Gamma?
Nikolas P.
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Amanda R. there is a bug aspec. I know that export and remix can both break this
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Mariena Q.
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Amanda R. bookmarks is a broader feature to make it easier to create experiences where users can quickly navigate to different sections, getting away from a strictly linear consumption of documents and presentations, and enabling more of a choose-your-own-adventure scenario based flows. For the resources I build it would be a game change for the UX to be able to easily "scroll to the top" at the end of sections, link to different sections for people to jump to. The support today is partial
No ability to link to headers or specific sections, only cards themselves
No auto-complete when adding links to have it search through cards or headers. Instead a cumbersome flow of scrolling to the card, copying the link, scrolling back to where you want to insert the link. It's a giant PITA. Also as Nik mentioned, the links don't work in PDF exports it seems, and remix messes them up.
Amanda R.
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Helpful, thank you! Jon was asking for more details so I'll let him know.
Mariena Q.
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for comparison google docs when you type "#" has the auto-complete (as well as ability to create bookmarks that you can then see in auto complete as deepak mentioned)
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Amanda R.
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Makes sense. If you type @ you can autocomplete for card names.
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Deepak B.
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Amanda R...one idea could be to use the current link card function and when a link to a card is inserted anywhere else. then when I use that link I need to sometimes return back to where I was before. If that intelligence can be built in as a first step then we have a solution that moves into the right direction. Also consider the summary slide view that MS PPT had where you can have the entire presentation as thumbnails on a slide and use that as a TOC to move up and down or jump straight to specific components. Just looks graphically cooler.
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Mariena Q.
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ohhh i didn't know about the @ shortcut! interesting you can't access it when creating link objects. too bad it breaks in the pdf export so doesn't seem like it will work for me (my clients are sick of password protected gammas 😭 )
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