Resources for indexing your own book
Articles, videos, and documentation to help you build a good index with SeeAlso — whether it's your first book or your fifth.
Articles
I Used an LLM to See If SeeAlso Would Be Useless
Can Claude, Gemini, or another AI chatbot index a book? I tested one on a real manuscript. Here is what it got wrong, and what SeeAlso does differently.
How to make an index for a book: My story and process
Professional indexer Andrew Ascherl shows how to make an index for a book: how he reads, flags terms, and writes entries, and where first-timers get stuck.
How to Index a Book: The Basics
A good index is not a list of where words appear. It is a set of promises about where a reader will actually find something worth finding.
Tutorials
Our tutorial series shows you how to use SeeAlso, one step at a time — from uploading your proofs to exporting a finished index. Andrew Ascherl walks you through every tool.
We’re also creating a second series on how to make a meaningful, useful index: everything SeeAlso doesn’t do for you.
Documentation
- How we handle your manuscriptWhat we store, where it lives, who can see it, and how to delete it.
- AI in SeeAlso, in plain termsWhere AI is used, what it can see, how we built the help bot, and what it never does.
Release notes
Release notes forthcoming.
Try it on your own book
Start a free trial, upload your proofs, and see how it feels to build your own index.