Best method to create a choose your own adventure styled document

Hi!

I am working on a project which used the choose your own adventure style of narration, so each paragraph has a number which gets referenced several times.

Because I need the agility to move paragraphs around and shuffling them through the book, if I did it with plain text, what would happen is that you'd fin on page 1, a paragraph with the title "60" for example, because I ahve moved it from a page much further along. Yes, I could change the title from "60" to "2" for example, but then all of the texts everywhere in the book which referenced "60" would be wrong and the reader would be unable to complete the story.

My solution is creating variables, so I crea a number of variables equal to the numbers of paragraphs, so if there are 120 paragraphs there will be 120 variables, and whenever I switch things around, I only need to change the variable number once, and all of the instance of that number gets changed everywhere I placed in the document.

Is this the best way of doing it or is it over engineering? Without a proper dockable Variable panel this task feels extremely klunky and slow.

Do you think there is a better solution or am I doing something wrong?

Cheers!