Aha OK now I understand what you are thinking of. The limitation here is
that this value only updates when you navigate to a new tiddler via a link,
but not when you just scroll to another already open tiddler and click on
it.
Try this filter:
[{$:/HistoryList!!current-tiddler}]
On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 9:11:01 PM UTC+2 David Gifford wrote:
> 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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