Do We Need Maps to Navigate Round Hypertext Documents?

In many hypertext systems users are provided with a map of the underlying directed graph of their hypertext document. Arguably this is like filling a program with goto statements and then placating the readers of the program by providing a map of all the gotos. In this paper we present an alternative approach which goes some way — but not the whole way — towards providing a hypertext user interface that distances the reader from the underlying directed graph.