Yeah, that's what I do. For years I made the table of contents as a linked list of pages starting at the beginning of the notebook until my then wife pointed out that it would be much more sensible to just grow the table of contents as a downward-growing stack from the end of memory.

I abbreviate the dates in the table of contents, which other people find confusing:

    2020-01-28
           -28
           -28
           -30
        -02-01
           -06
           -06