Wow, I don't think I had seen Sidelinks, Anjar! It's not in the toolmap. I will both play with this and add it to the toolmap. Thanks a bunch.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 7:04 PM Anjar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > Very interesting! It somehow reminded me of sidenotes > <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/QNZLtqecbIU/m/T__843mBBAAJ>, > which are easily combined with details: a simple demo: > https://andjar.github.io/tiddlytext/sidelink.html Just a thought! The > macro is simple: > > \define sidelink(trgt, lbl) > <span class="comment"><$link to=$trgt$>$lbl$</$link><span class > ="sidenote"><details><summary>$lbl$</summary><$transclude > tiddler=$trgt$></details></span></span> > \end > > <style> > .comment:hover .sidenote { > background-color: yellow; > } > > .sidenote, > .marginnote { > float: right; > clear: right; > margin-right: -50%; > width: 40%; > margin-top: 0.3rem; > margin-bottom: 0; > line-height: 1.3; > vertical-align: baseline; > position: relative; > } > </style> > > Best, > Anders > > tirsdag 30. mars 2021 kl. 23:50:30 UTC+2 skrev David Gifford: > >> 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/IVMObMnrk0s/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7d648deb-5ced-4adf-abde-20684ade8a1bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7d648deb-5ced-4adf-abde-20684ade8a1bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CANE%3DBFLfEYYK2UmyhDrzsfuH_KRzuD3qkU_jTHoFC8W8%2BzftxQ%40mail.gmail.com.
