I'm thinking I am clear as mud because, really, I'm not finding the words to express things as coherently as I'd like.
Say I'm on a wikipedia page that discusses World War II. And there is a link to Winston Churchill, and I decide I want to look at the Wikipedia article about Winston Churchill in the context of World War II. Clicking on the link and having the World War II article disappear on me, my focus is now entirely on Winston Churchill when I really want to be looking at the Winston Churchill article within a focus on additional details about Churchill related specifically to World War II. It irritates me to be on a new page and the context of World War II is gone. Getting back to the World War II article is only a click away (click the back button!!!), so I should not be irritated. Whether it is related to ADHD or some other bat-poop-crazy thing going on with me, I am irritated/agitated/stressed because although my focus is World War II, I am now only seeing Churchill. Bouncing back and forth (via back/forward buttons, backlinks/links), that makes for "big" contextual focus switching, and the transitions are pretty exhausting. But I am right zen when I "open in another window" the Churchill article, and I put both articles side-by-side. I know: bat-poop-crazy, ADHD or otherwise ... Me and my wonky brain aside, the ability to see all of this info together in a certain context (or with a particular focus), what would we call that? Preserving Information Context? Viewing additional details related to a particular focus without having the main content disappear? Surely there must be some already existing awesome expression for this? TiddlyWiki's "story river" allows seeing a chain of tiddlers within an information context/focus. It's just that I see each tiddler as neatly separated things: hence why I prefer a tiddler with DetailsWidget instances and/or Modals that show on top of a focus tiddler that's right there, versus the focus tiddler being somewhere downstream (or is it upstream) such that it isn't visible anymore. So not interested here in changing TiddlyWiki to somehow fill some kind of ADHD-related need. Just trying to find the words to express viewing extra details within a context without having the primary information going out of view. Wow, that's a mess. Try to find the words to express a concept when not particularly good at relaying the concept itself. Kind of like a puppy chasing its tail ... On Saturday, August 22, 2020 at 5:00:00 PM UTC-3 Charlie Veniot wrote: > Trucking along with my intertwingled > ADHD/IntertwingularityMapping/TiddlyWikiUsage project, I want my first > topic to be about "Preserving Information Context", but I'm not quite sure > I'm in love with that title. > > One of my greatest annoyances is to be looking at information on a web > page (or a tiddler), wanting to see some details of some kind, which leads > to moving away from the web page (or tiddler) I was focused on, and my > focus now on a new page or tiddler. > > Same thing when looking something up in a dictionary: I look up a word, > and the definition of that word has me looking up some other word, bouncing > around the pages in the dictionary. Ugh. > > The "information context", or the view, or this watcha-ma-callit has > changed, and I'm now looking at something no longer within the focus I had. > > That kind of annoyance of mine gets easily solved in TiddlyWiki with my > favorite solutions thus far: the DetailsWidget and/or modals. > > All of that rambling to ask: this thing I like (preserving infomation > context), does anybody have any alternative expression(s) that might make > more sense, or (to not reinvent the wheel) an already existing expression? > > Thanks in advance to all you tiddlywiki / hyperlink thinking / non-linear > thinking brains ! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2d850b16-2348-4a44-86af-ab68e8ef4757n%40googlegroups.com.
