@David I might be misunderstanding, but by "target tiddler" do you mean the
tiddler that you are currently viewing within the story? If so, you could
use HotZone plugin <https://github.com/felixhayashi/TW5-HotZone>.
I already do something like this to display backlinks etc in the sidebar:
<$list filter="[{$:/temp/focussedTiddler}links[]]">
<$link><<currentTiddler>></$link>
<br>
</$list>
This will refresh the list whenever you scroll to a different tiddler,
without you having to click any links. I like Saq's suggestion of pinning
the list to the sidebar, however. I have often considered trying to do this
but never got around to it.
On Tuesday, 30 March 2021 at 19:28:24 UTC+1 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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