Hi Saq

Thanks for the quick response.

There must be some way to get this. When you go to Control panel >
Settings, and set the Navigation Address Bar to "include the target
tiddler", the browser knows which tiddler to grab and add as #. So in
theory shouldn't we be able to grab the same thin*g?*



On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 1:06 PM Saq Imtiaz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> I believe someone on reddit posted something similar a while back, but
> unfortunately I do not have a link handy.
>
> Where you thinking of having the zoom storyview active so only one tiddler
> can be open in the story at a time?
> Otherwise, we need the concept of an active or focussed tiddler in the
> story, which despite discussions has yet to land in the core.
>
> Off the top of my head, the only easy way I see to keep track of which
> tiddler the user last clicked on in a story, would require editing the page
> template.
>
> Saq
> On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 8:28:24 PM UTC+2 David Gifford wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Yet another crazy hair-brained idea of mine.
>>
>> Use case: you are reading a tiddler that has a lot of links to it. You
>> want to see the context of a link, but you don't want to leave your place
>> in the current tiddler. Also, you don't want modal popups.
>>
>> My idea: a tiddler tagged either $:/tags/SideBar (or
>> $:/tags/SideBarSegment, if one is using the Customizer plugin) that lists
>> the title and transcludes the text field of the hard links in, and the
>> backlinks to, the "target tiddler" (i.e., the tiddler that shows up after
>> the hashtab in the browser bar). That way you keep your tiddler open and in
>> place, but can see a scrollable list in the sidebar with the title and text
>> of all the links and backlinks.
>>
>> Here is an example of the look and functionality I am imagining:
>> https://giffmex.org/experiments/l+bl.html
>>
>> At the very least, if someone could tell me how to parse "target tiddler"
>> in a list filter, I could experiment on my own.
>>
>> Alternate idea: A plugin that shows a small icon on hovering near a link
>> in a tiddler, and when you click on the icon, the title and text of the
>> linked tiddler appears in a sidebar tab or sidebar segment, and any tiddler
>> that was there previoulsy in that sidebar viewing area is removed.
>>
>> Obviously either of these ideas would require a wide screen and a wide
>> setup for the sidebar. But it would be a nice alternative to the two-column
>> approach of the Stories plugin for Stroll. It would also mean that the
>> viewtemplate approach for viewing backlinks (again, Stroll) would be less
>> necessary. Side by side viewing of tiddlers is better than scrolling to the
>> bottom of the target tiddler to see what the backlinks are.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any feedback, help, snippets or links. Blessings!
>>
>>
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