Index your own book — and get it right.
A professional indexer’s method, in your hands.
Built by a professional indexer, for authors.
SeeAlso puts your page proofs and your index in one workspace. Select a term, and the entry and its page reference are already there.
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
I. The Cup of Humanity
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism--Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.
The long isolation of Japan from the rest of the world, so conducive to introspection, has been highly favourable to the development of Teaism. Our home and habits, costume and cuisine, porcelain, lacquer, painting--our very literature--all have been subject to its influence. No student of Japanese culture could ever ignore its presence. It has permeated the elegance of noble boudoirs, and entered the abode of the humble. Our peasants have learned to arrange flowers, our meanest labourer to offer his salutation to the rocks and waters.
Your proofs are back. Now the publisher wants an index.
You wrote the book. You know every argument, every name, every turn. Then the proofs arrive with a short deadline and a line in your contract: the index is yours to provide.
Your options aren’t great. Hire a professional indexer and pay out of pocket. Or build it yourself — PDF in one window, Word in another, typing page numbers by hand and alphabetizing as you go.
There’s a better way to do it yourself.
One workspace, built around your proofs.
In SeeAlso, you build the index inside the book itself. Select a term on the page, and the entry appears with its page reference attached. No copying, no window switching, no typing numbers you can already see.
Subentries, cross-references, reorganizing — it all happens in the same place, in whatever order makes sense to you.
How SeeAlso works
Upload your proofs
Add your PDF and your project is ready. Leave and come back — everything stays where you left it.
Build your index
Select terms, add subentries, and link related ideas with cross-references. You know what your readers will look for; SeeAlso handles the mechanics.
Export it formatted
Produce a finished, correctly formatted index ready to send to your publisher.
See it before you start.
Watch Dr. Andrew Ascherl, a professional indexer with hundreds of books behind him, build an index in SeeAlso. In a few minutes you’ll see exactly what indexing your own book will look like.
Built by working indexers
We built the tool we wished we had.
SeeAlso started with professional indexers. Andrew Ascherl has indexed hundreds of books for publishers over more than a decade, and he kept running into the same thing: the thinking went quickly. Everything around it — the copying, the page numbers, the formatting — was slow.
So we built a workspace that takes that part off your hands, and then made it simple enough for the people who know a book best: the ones who wrote it.
Every entry stays yours. Nothing goes into your index without your approval.
What authors found
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What’s in your free trial:
The full workspace, on your own proofs- A set number of headings and subentries
- In-app help that answers your “how do I…?” questions
