Thanks for the feedback, Dave. Kudos for Kosmaton again!
Off course, my setup for having a second display still would need a ideal plugin, script or goto box, where after selecting a tiddler (with all the sorting options: title, tag, date..) the tiddler also shows in the expanded Sidebar (and not the regular Display area). For this I'm testing a few imperfect options available at the moment: 1.) Personally would prefer a goto box which, after selecting a title, displays the tiddler just below in the containing element. But something like this doesn't seem to exist independently yet. 2.) The best available out of the box option would be RecentChangesPlugin (which is used on Eric's Welcome page). It can give a listbox with all tiddlers sorted by modified date and buttons to either preview the selected tiddler just below, further to open it in the regular display area both in view or directly in edit mode, which is very useful too. It's clear disadvantage is that though this usually works very well with recently edited tiddlers shown at the top of the list, with too many tiddlers and having to find an older one it's far from very practical. 3.) For the later use-case, and for making this 'sidebar 2nd display area' feature more practical to readers too, FAQViewerPlugin (by Eric too) comes closest. By providing a listbox with all tiddler alphabetically sorted (if all tiddlers have been tagged with a dummy tag and this tag used with the faqviewer macro), and even more advantageous, the further option to narrow down the list of tiddlers by tag or search. However for this use-case the plugin code has to be modified because by default it only displays a 'Description' slice in its listbox, and only falls back to the tiddler titles if no such slice exists (which is easy enough even for javascript illiterate like me, by simply replacing every occurrence of 'Description' with a slice name that most likely doesn't exist). Two minor disadvantages for the use of this plugin is that it displays 'prev' and 'next' buttons at the bottom of the displayed tiddler and - which is much worse - jumps there at the bottom if the sidebars size is too small for the whole tiddler - which will be most of the time. 4.) So ideally, a plugin would be needed which would have the main feature of TableOfContentsPlugin (by Eric again) to display a listbox of all tiddlers with all common sorting/narrowing options, a search box (as with FAQViewer), additionally being able to view the tiddler in the element contained just below, and the option to open the tiddler in view or edit mode (as with RecentChanges), and - more for aesthetic reasons - preferable in a popup instead of a listbox. And to top it off: a goto box as next to it. 5.) Still the best, of course, would be a completely new plugin which simply creates two re-sizable display areas, with the feature to drag and drop tiddlers between the two... Though using a modified version of FAQViewerPlugin, which also allows to display any tiddler at start by default, is already practical enough. Simply using an common MainMenu (with lists, sliders, tabs, treeview..) as tiddler displayed by default for readers - additionally the RecentChanges panel for picking up the work where it has been left for editors. But maybe it would be a sensible request to have FAQViewerPlugin and RecentChangesPlugin,combined - because their features overlap anyway, and as they are now, have very limited use-cases each. Then all the differing features of each could simply be combined to options available in the macro itself. Eric, if you happen to read this, what do you think? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
