Well, it's usually a mistake to post something in the middle of the night and this one was no exception. Here are a few things I wish I had said:
First, the title should not be "Clustered story view" but something like "Train of Thought story view". (Merely clustering misses out on the sequencing.) And I should have mentioned that this is probably what a *working desk* at home would look like if you were using physical paper index cards instead of tiddlers. Piles, divided into topics and stacked so that you read from front to back. But do note that also physical cards are also a compromise and not your actual thoughs - you'd likely fiddle around to find a card (a thought), rahter than make a new copy of it due to the effort involved. The idea with repeated occurences of a title in the list is to reduce such compromises. Now, that said, I'm not sure one would want to reflect the *actual* opening of tiddlers but instead a *desired* (designed) sequence. The actual train of though includes distractions, manifested as quick "back and forths" between two tiddlers, perhaps due to *constructing* the tiddler (rather than thinking the thought) or I was sidetracked by mistake. Only some thoughs (be they repetitions or new thoughts) are desired to document. (Possibly solved with a simple removal of a title in the list, clicking a small "x"?) Second, a train-of-thought list shown in one such tiddler is not, I think, necessarily open tiddlers but merely tiddler titles. I'm guessing, it should not be too difficult to have multiple instances of one title for the same reason that a title can be typed multiple times into a regular tiddler text. I'm guessing the current (global) history list is some kind of array that intentionally deletes the old occurence but that this step could be omitted. (But then, I'm no programmer...) A, for today new, thought is that there are similarities with the Tabbed Table of Contents <http://tiddlywiki.com/#TableOfContentsMacro%20Tabbed%20Example>. Maybe it would make sense to reuse the visual aspects so to get a coherent and familiar look for these things, assuming it doesn't interfere with the functinality of the idea. If real estate is limited (cell phones) perhaps having it, on hover, pop out from the tiddler gutter (i.e the white centimeter space framing a tiddler). This is related to a discussion I had with Tobias on general use for the (underused?) tiddler gutters. This is an idea for ToC also. BTW, the physical lenght of a train-of-thought list (i.e in one such stack) deals with similar ssues that e.g sidebar lists do. I.e how much should be shown - should it be scrollable, fixed lenght etc. Ok, I'll get back on the valuable input you other guys have posted. No time just now. Thank you, btw. <:-) -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
