Agreed, @Mohammad: that right sidebar is like the digital extension of my right hand, when working in TW; without it, i would not be using TW at all, i expect. The fact that it is persistent, always-accessible and easily mutable -all 3 qualities at the same time- is what makes it so powerful for me... And, as a relatively new user, still in process of making this my primary IDE for ideas, it is just this tension between mutability and structure that makes this such an appropriate technology for my "outboard brain."
Right now (i mean today: tomorrow may be different!), i'm spending 90% of my TW time between two different instances: one mainly about learning the tech that is chock-full of plugins (including a few of yours, Mohammad) whose sidebar is ever-changing, and a newer one based on Soren's Zettelkasten <https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWZBUlZOdHp4UXpDbkdNMmZCRzZSRWdwRnIzd3xBQ3Jtc0trVFE1cUlfYkljVENpRkRVQWsyNWRWOVpYdXlEblFZcXRYVWNaNHVGY1hQOWZjNDZMa3RLY0ROVkxqRW05ZWVlcFB2ek1keTNGMEVPcEl4RjZyTWEyaEp5dld0YXRhS1R3Z2w5RHQ3b0toLTVRQUVyaw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fzettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com> that has a powerful structure, evolved by SB over a year of heavy use it seems, that i am determined not to mess with until i really understand it. Regarding the latter: beyond the standard elements, its sidebar has a "Write" tab that includes a set of sub-tabs representing distinct steps in the idea-processing workflow, whereby each tab presents a list of tiddlers at a certain stage of completion. This system has affordances for distinguishing between Private and Public content, so one can easily filter out the subset for pushing into Public space (a github repo, in my case: still an almost empty shell, as i'm still working mostly in Private/ desktop space), using the Advanced Search widget -that being the most essential feature of TW Sidebar in all instances for me. Regarding the former instance above: It's complicated... But two most interesting features that i'm using intensively right now are: 1. Charlie's "Kiosk Gadget <https://tiddlywiki-programming.neocities.org/CJ_TiddlyWikiProgramming.html>" , which works like an embedded browser of certain content that i'm having to refer to constantly -right now it's a certain set of Wikipedia articles, documentation from TW.com, and TW-Scripts finder in Kookma's github repo (am just starting to scratch the surface of latter, Mohammad, but that's a goldmine you've got there!). The other is 2. Dave's Customizer plugin <https://giffmex.org/gifts/Customizer/customizer.html> , which delivers the ultimate in mutability to both the sidebar and the view template for tiddlers. Using this plugin (accessed via a tiny dropdown arrow in topLH corner of browser, which opens a LH menu only when you need it) i can turn the default sidebar (which now includes a "Refs" tab for [1] above) on or off, and also a stack of sidebar add-ons that can be (de)activated/ reordered to taste. Mine currently includes (a) "Book Tools" -a handy little set of affordances for quickly capturing key info about resources and Glossary & Bibliography-building; and (b) Advanced Search. The other element of TW Sidebar, essential in all instances i would say, is the Toolbar strip, whose set of featured icons is still changing pretty often in my case, as i'm still not sure which ones i use most often (if i could put a click-counter on these tools, then i could apply some productivity science here :-), but i'm not so bothered about this, since i can always access a hidden tool via the "Tools" tab in default sidebar (again: these mutable structures really rock!). /walt On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 7:53:45 AM UTC+1 Mohammad wrote: > The sidebar is oen the most powerful designs of Tiddlywiki, always > underestimated and people look for a left sidebar (like other common web > pages where they are mostly used for menus or ads) or hiding it? > > So lets share your experiences, > > > - how do you use the right sidebar (do you see it at all?) > - what do you like to see on the sight sidebar? > - can you give some online examples of TW right sidebar? > > > > Best wishes > Mohammad > -- 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/81c80b43-304e-40d0-87e6-05e59228ec3an%40googlegroups.com.
