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To my surprise, I have been unable to find a rule index for Pathfinder that collects all of the various character options and the like together and shows which books they are in. So I've finally decided to start compiling one myself. Partly because it's such a big project, and partly because I don't (yet) own every Pathfinder book, I've set it up in Google Docs so anyone can add to it. So far, I've finished the Core Rulebook, and am almost done adding in the APG.
Anyway, here it is: Pathfinder Rules Index
P.S. I hope Paizo doesn't mind this on copyright grounds or anything. The intent is for this to just be a directory of the various rules to make finding them easier, and it won't contain any meaningful rules text. While it will at times contain proper names and the like which may count as product identity, given that including these would be necessary for this to function properly as an accurate and complete index, and that, as stated, no actual rules text will be included, rendering it useless without the appropriate book, I hope this can be overlooked.
on the left side of this page, under the heading Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, there are four subheadings
Rules Archive (PRD)
Beginner Box
Core Rulebook
Free downloads
I'm not sure how your list is different from the Rules Archive
You might also want to check out the Pathfinder Wiki
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At present, little, I know. In fact, without having any rules text, it's decidedly unnecessary at present. However, I'm planning to index things from every single book I own (about twenty to thirty or so, I believe), including those not currently in the PRD. And if others help out and add things from books they own, then it can get that much closer to being a totally comprehensive directory, as is the intent.
Pathfinder Wiki is more focused on lore, I do believe, with minimal mention of any mechanics.
There's also d20pfsrd.com, of course, but they seem to occasionally be missing items (particularly feats), and finding out where where various rules are in the physical books is a bit more arduous than I think it ought to be since it's usually only shown on the page for a specific rule, meaning that if you want to find out where multiple things are, you have to go to the individual page for each of them.
This is just an index, but it's also intended to be a complete index.
This is just an index, but it's also intended to be a complete index.
How will you handle rules that have been errata'd and FAQed?
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Hmm... In the introduction, I've outlined how to handle things that appear in multiple sources. Even though the basic assumption is that the most recently published book with the material in it is treated as the "correct" version, I feel it's important to include when things appear in older books (for example, in case someone doesn't have the newer book). I'm still going back and forth on whether or not or what to include from 3.5e Pathfinder books, but I've decided - for now - to err on the side of including these things. In all of these cases, every source that something appears in (so long as it is at least recognizably the same option) will be marked, with the exception of things that appear in the Core book, which will only be marked as appearing there. Since it continues to get updated, I'm going to assume that it has the most accurate rules text on anything it contains (assuming you have the most recent printing, or at least the errata).
To be honest, I'm strongly tempted to just ignore errata and FAQs. My justification being that since errata and FAQs are organized by book, I would simply recommend checking a given book's errata and FAQ when looking up a rule in it. Personally, I've made a habit of printing out the errata and FAQs for each book I own, and slipping them in the back cover.
My biggest concern with including specific notes for when something appears in errata/FAQs is that doing this as I go through each book would drastically slow things down, as well as potentially inflating the space that the source identification takes up (this is also why I'm not including page numbers). I'd simply be content with being able to look up what book a certain rule is in, or which books to look in when considering options for a character I'm building. After that, I don't mind finding which page it's on or if there's any errata/FAQ material on it myself, since once you know the relevant book, that's all comparatively easy.
All that said, I certainly would not be against someone adding these things, themselves, so long as it's tidy and easily told apart from the source abbreviations (so a dagger (†) or something to mark FAQs, for example, rather than the letters FAQ).
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So the index has been completed up through the Adventurer's Guide, with regards to the main Pathfinder line of products. I'm now working on what I and my friends have from the Campaign Setting and Player Companion lines. We're working from oldest stuff to newest, but skipping over anything that was still for 3.5e, for now. We'll probably come back to that after the APs, which, speaking of, we only have a few of, so that would be particularly useful. Though, again, please skip over anything from 3.5e (so the original Rise of the Runelords, for example), since I only intend to include material from those sources if it has not ever reappeared in something newer.
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All right, sorry for so many back-to-back posts, but bit of an important update.
The original document I'd been working in seems to have gotten too large for Google Docs to handle (as best as I can figure), and has basically crashed. I managed to recover almost all of my work on it, and have created two new documents; one for spells (since spells took up about half the page count of the old one), and one for everything else.