Perhaps a tiddler toolbar button that allows you to "pin" a tiddler to the
sidebar and show information about it would be a better user experience.
On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 9:16:51 PM UTC+2 Saq Imtiaz wrote:
> 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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