Keeping "Close others" would be on my list of "keep this feature". Maybe 
you can just put it in a *more options * style button that drops down a 
list? An ellipsis seems to be used quite often to indicate this "..." 
rather than "more options" :)

On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:45:59 AM UTC+10, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
>
> In the previous version of TiddlyWiki, each tiddler had an option to 
>> "close others". How is this to be accomplished with TW 5?
>
>
> That's still an open question.
>
> One answer would be to add another toolbar button to the top right of each 
> tiddler. I'm against that, as I feel that a proliferation of toolbar icons 
> makes TW look too busy and complicated. One other option might to be to 
> include it with other additional toolbar buttons in the tiddler info slider.
>  
> I have been thinking that all the poking around closing tiddlers that is 
> so often needed in TW classic is actually a design flaw. I think a variant 
> of single page mode is part of the answer (see the latest experiments with 
> the zoomin view on the Tools menu of TW5). Another part might be to extend 
> the act of clicking a link to a tiddler to be a two phase operation: first 
> the target tiddler appears as a popup, and then you can choose to continue 
> the operation to "tear off" the tiddler as a new tiddler in the story in 
> it's own right, or to pull back, so that the popup disappears. In this way 
> you'd be able to provisionally browse a link before committing to adding it 
> to the story. Imagine dragging the tiddler out of a link, and watching it 
> snap back if you haven't dragged it far enough.
>
> I don't think I've yet got a good final answer to all of this - part of 
> the purpose of TW5 is to give a good basis for future UX experiments like 
> this.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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