#amindexing — Public Fediverse posts

JUNE CARTOON: https://ivacheung.com/2025/06/camaraderie/ #AmIndexing

MAY CARTOON: https://ivacheung.com/2025/05/passing-through/ #AmIndexing

Indexing an amazing memoir while serenaded by a hermit thrush.

This is the life.

#Birds #AmIndexing

It's done! The Albertus Magnus index is done!

:Kermit waving his arms GIF:

#AmIndexing #AmAlsoGoingToBed

Trying to motivate myself by working an hour and then playing one (1) online word game. Ad infinitum.

#AmIndexing

I'm starving. Very intense day in the index mines!

#AmIndexing

Just learned a new word: "propaedeutic," adj.: "(of an area of study) serving as a preliminary instruction or as an introduction to further study."

#AmIndexing #Philosophy

This index is my most top-heavy ever:

agent intellect
Albert the Great
Alexander of Aphrodisias
Alfarabi
Algazel
Alkindi
Anaxagoras
Ancient Scholiast
Aquinas, Thomas
Aristotle
Ashʿarites
Augustine
Avempace
Averroes
and let's not forget Avicenna

#AmIndexing #MedievalStudies #Scholastics #Peripatetics #Philosophy

Trying to teach #Dayenu to sit next to me rather than *trying* to sit on my chest, where I have to support him with one arm. He's less cognizant of my needs than #Pip is, but we're starting to see progress! Which makes my workday even cozier, with a cat on each side.

#AmIndexing #Cats

It is extremely cozy to index with a #cat's back pressing against your arm. #AmIndexing

The 4 A's of my current project: Albert, Aristotle, Avicenna, Averroes.

I wonder how many times I've typed them.

#AmIndexing

Today we're reading about Ibn Rushd and the human intellect.

#AmIndexing #MedievalStudies #Philosophy

One of the funny things about indexing books about Albert the Great is that you have all these entries and subentries like "Arabic sources, Albert's use of," whereas usually you use someone's surname. It sounds so informal.

#AmIndexing #MedievalStudies

Ughhh, the PDF for the proofs I'm indexing on Albert the Great's Arabic sources is locked, so I can't copy and paste names and titles from it.

Do you know how long it takes to put in diacritics by hand?

#AmIndexing

Index editing. My least favorite activity outside of cleaning the litter box (but it takes so much longer!).

#AmIndexing

Halfway done with this shift, and only 7 pages left of indexing to do.

Luckily I have a Rivers of London book to read when I finish.

#AmIndexing #LibraryWorker

Going from #indexing a philosophical book to something much more popular in orientation gives you such a lift. #AmIndexing

My current project, "Environmentalism from Below," is one of those emotionally difficult projects that call for frequent pauses to breathe or meditate.

(And also to end capitalism.)

#AmIndexing

"Therefore, if a quiddity that <our intellect> abstracts from a particular thing possessing a quiddity is a quiddity that does not possess a quiddity, in understanding it, <our intellect> will understand the quiddity of a separate substance that is of such a disposition..."

FB Memories from 3 years ago assuring me that, while indexing the Dao De Jing is hard, it's still easier than Aquinas.

#AmIndexing

Hello, book indexers (and index fans) of Mastodon and the fediverse. I’ve set up a group at @indexodon so if you tag that account, it’ll share posts with the group’s followers. Please keep using #indexodon and other relevant hashtags too for search-and-find-ability, because we should be good at that.

Indexodon, welcome to the.

#AmIndexing #indexers #indexing

Hey, fellow freelance editorial peeps. Is #EditorSprint still a thing? Could it be again, once a week maybe?

No phones. No socials. Just focus for one hour. Comment with your goal beforehand, and check back in after to see how it went.

Anyone in?

#AmEditing #AmIndexing #AmProofreading @edibuddies #edibuddies #indexodon

Latest book index submitted (for a comedy memoir – very silly, very sweary) and next one under way (on women in East Asian film – beautiful and inspiring). This can be a brilliant job.

#AmIndexing #comedy #FilmStudies #indexodon

@overholt
I hereby declare that I am no longer a ‘book indexer’.
I am a Creator of Tables of Things Most Remarkable.
#AmIndexing #indexing #indexodon

Looking for editorial professionals on Mastodon?

For editors, see #AmEditing #copyediting #edibuddies #editing #EditorsOfMastodon #StetWalk and @edibuddies @stetwalk.

For proofreaders, see #AmProofreading #proofreading.

For book indexers, see #AmIndexing #indexing #indexodon and @indexodon.

Editors, indexers, proofreaders (ACES/CIEP/EFA/SI), please say hi below. I’ll keep this toot pinned to help find each other. 🤓

@pjohanneson @gg
Hello and thanks from a book indexer and editor. A plus one here for the @edibuddies group. Some other relevant hashtags for editorial professionals:
– for editors, see #AmEditing #edibuddies #editing #EditorsOfMastodon
– for indexers, see #AmIndexing #indexing #indexodon

My editorial assistant is making his opinions about working on this glorious day clearly known.

#stetpet #amediting #amindexing #catsofmastodon

It's time to stop scrolling the internet and start indexing this fascinating book on US intervention with drug cartels in Mexico and Columbia. #amindexing #indexer @edibuddies

Indexers: What's the standard approach if I want to index something on an unpaginated gatefold? I've looked in Mulvany and can't find guidance. #AmIndexing

It's 80 degrees in the apartment and my editorial assistant is feeling a bit needy #stetpet #amindexing