Hi Walt, I enjoy reading your experiences with Tiddlywiki and see how active you are these days in the forum!
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 2:36 PM ludwa6 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > Yes, the Soren approach is great! and I think this is one successful workflow in using Tiddlywiki for note taking! He uses a lot from the sidebar! Just for writing tab or explorer I used another approach and it is the Favorites plugin which lets you create flat and structured bookmarks! By the way I think the Soren approach is wonderful and worth learning. > > 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. > > Great! one point I like to share is that in the long term use I always stay with simpler solutions! > > 1. > > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/81c80b43-304e-40d0-87e6-05e59228ec3an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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