Hi all First, thanks to Saq and si for their ideas. (I saw Si's post too late, but will play around with the hotzone idea later. Sounds like a good other way of doing this)
I got my links+backlinks set up to work as far as I need it to. Check it out at: https://giffmex.org/experiments/l+bl.html If anyone would like to make this their own, adapt it, clean it up, package it as a plugin, host it on GitHub, I would be most pleased. I got it to work for me, and I wanted to share the idea rather than hoard it, but I am not really excited about doing any remaining work on it or maintaining it. On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 12:28:24 PM UTC-6 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! > > > -- 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/a68948cc-183e-4284-8e0e-0e8c2e91ae16n%40googlegroups.com.
