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Always try to group and categorize your information in a logical and user-friendly way. Prevent redundancies: only create subcategories if there are more of them at the same level (levels are indicated by number of = signs before and after the header), otherwise just collapse to the parent.

Visitors typically use one of two methods to find the information they need: Hunting and Gathering. There is probably a more official set of terms for these methods, but let's role with this analogy for now.

~~===Hunting===~~

The "Hunter" will look for specific information on a page based on specific keywords. Make your headers sufficiently descriptive, so the user can jump directly to the required information using the Table Of Contents.

~~===Gathering===~~

The "Gatherer" doesn't know exactly what to look for, and will browse the entire page before figuring out what information they need based on the context it is presented in. You can guide these visitors in a helpful way by sorting your content in order of specificity; from general or most used information at the top, to specific or least used information (e.g. software code) at the bottom.

You can add many levels of subheaders as you like, but after level 3 they become quite hard to distinguish and will clutter the TOC. If a subject requires many sub-subcategories, consider giving the subcategory its own page. Alternatively, if the sub-subcategories are only small in content, you could make non-TOC headers with simple '''bold text'''.

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 Always try to group and categorize your information in a logical and user-friendly way. Prevent redundancies: only create subcategories if there are more of them at the same level (levels are indicated by number of = signs before and after the header), otherwise just collapse to the parent.
-Visitors typically use one of two methods to find the information they need: Hunting and Gathering. There is probably a more official set of terms for these methods, but let's role with this analogy for now.
-===Hunting===
-The "Hunter" will look for specific information on a page based on specific keywords. Make your headers sufficiently descriptive, so the user can jump directly to the required information using the Table Of Contents.
-===Gathering===
-The "Gatherer" doesn't know exactly what to look for, and will browse the entire page before figuring out what information they need based on the context it is presented in. You can guide these visitors in a helpful way by sorting your content in order of specificity; from general or most used information at the top, to specific or least used information (e.g. software code) at the bottom.
 You can add many levels of subheaders as you like, but after level 3 they become quite hard to distinguish and will clutter the TOC. If a subject requires many sub-subcategories, consider giving the subcategory its own page. Alternatively, if the sub-subcategories are only small in content, you could make non-TOC headers with simple '''bold text'''.

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