Springer,
Thanks for that insight. I built a separate tool called focus tiddler ie
the tiddler with user focus, it included something like Erics History tab,
but also as I mentioned in the original post allow us "navigate to the last
opened or edited tiddler". In my (as yet unpublished) focus tiddler
solution (not that I was proposing here) I had a viewToolbar button (could
be in edit as well) to override the last opened or edited tiddler, that is
make any tiddler in the story the focused tiddler. Your feed back makes me
ask if perhaps allow selecting secondary tiddler as say the "focused work
tiddler" and that what ever the navigation activity "the last opened or
edited tiddler", that it would be easy to return to the "focused work
tiddler". ie the one where one is taking notes or reading to manage your
work flow (eg syllabus or class notes).
I too use the classic story view as a rule, finding the others frustrating,
as a result I know little about their use.
My learnings from your reply include
- Your desire to go back - I will look at incorporating that.
- the history tab helps here.
- I wonder the best way to select the tiddler to go back to (not just
the last)
- Getting keyboard shortcuts for any navigational component )inc top and
bottom story and sidebar)
- I would like to add a keyboard short cut to wikitext buttons I
define - not sure how yet.
- Would it be important to reopen a "focused work tiddler" if closed?
- Then you could close all, display something then return.
- Perhaps use a modifier to a shortcut to open/reopen a "focused work
tiddler" for edit,
In closing, my focused tiddler method will go some way to meeting your
requirement, using the history tab will help even further, but you need
that tab displayed on the sidebar. The history tab is refreshed each Wiki
session (reload), this is something to do before a "class or presentation"
because you can easily return to a tiddler you opened during the session,
the list is limited to those you have opened or edited which is helpful.
Regards
Tones
On Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 06:03:12 UTC+10 springer wrote:
> Tones,
>
> For "top to bottom": The most useful navigational add-ins, for my
> use-cases, are keyboard-driven. When desired tiddlers are scrolled out of
> view *and* this feels like an especially distracting obstacle (say, because
> I'm teaching, and wish to resume the prior discussion after jumping to a
> tangent), having to coordinate with the cursor is half the battle.
>
> For various reasons, the "classic" story view (rather than pop or zoomin)
> is what I usually choose... but I wonder whether it would be possible to
> get the best of both worlds: allow multiple tiddlers in the story view, but
> "go back" to most recently active place in the story-river (other open
> tiddler in which most recent click happened if possible, or most recently
> opened from sidebar if not) when I close something? That's probably beyond
> what you're developing, but just one related hankering.
>
> -Springer
>
> On Monday, July 19, 2021 at 9:44:22 AM UTC-4 TW Tones wrote:
>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I just wanted to share that as I happen to be under a "stay at home"
>> order in Sydney because of a covid-19 D strain outbreak, I have being
>> focusing on some tiddlywiki tools development. I have one large project,
>> but while working on that it spawns a lot of little tools, born from the
>> innovation and my experience using tiddlywiki a lot, that tiddlywiki always
>> inspires in me.
>>
>> I thought I would issue an RFC or "request for comment" on my little
>> project called "top to bottom"
>>
>> I am designing a set of tools so you can easily navigate from the top to
>> bottom, also bottom to top, of the story with a single click, also to the
>> top of the side bar if you have a long one. It also uses a little trick to
>> ensure the last tiddler (especially if little) appears at the top of the
>> page if you navigate to it (rather than appearing at the bottom with
>> previous tiddler above it.
>>
>> These seem trivial but they can improve your work flow and navigation
>> speed if you have a number of tiddlers open.
>>
>> However this is where the request for comment comes in, can you suggest
>> any related features I could include so the macros are even more useful and
>> fit into the title top-to-bottom.
>>
>> Please let me know if you have a desire for other related features
>>
>> Finally shall I include the ability to navigate to the last opened or
>> edited tiddler no matter where is is in the story.
>>
>> Post script, I would love some help generating a library in which to
>> publish my tools, I have perhaps hundreds, I have not yet published.
>>
>> Regards
>> Tones/Tony
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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