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This is an attempt to illustrate the two (or more) ideas combined, i.e Tobias categories and my train-of-thought idea (with a new name! see below.) Also don't miss out on the radically different idea that I bring up towards the end. @Tobias - or anyone for that matter - please tell what you'd like to change. Ok, so the popup here supposedly appears from hovering over left gutter. By default (as in image) you see the *Tiddler Story* (aha, that's a better term than "train-of-thought"). Analogous to the sidebar tab "Recent", it shows the history including only tiddlers relevant to the current one, including: links opened from withing the current, children created (i.e tagged with current), any tiddler appearing the in the Categories (see below). The Tiddler Story updates continuously just like the sidebar Recent list. The puprose is as outlined in my OP here, i.e to see how an "area of concern" (a project/concept/abunchofparallelideas/...) is evolving allowing for backtracking, and for easy access to tiddlers. Further, the idea is to capture this story for each tiddler! Obviously, related tiddlers will have similar stories. Note this is a change from the OP where I kind of thought this had something to do with the story view. The clock is the icon for this Tiddler Story. Just below it are *Saved Tiddler Stories*, essentially snapshots of the Tiddler Story. Probably should have some "open all" command in it. Then follows user defined categories such as, as per Tobias example; "inspection", "insurance", "maintenance" etc. Last, there's a "Add new category" plus to easily create new categories or, I guess, add an existing one that doesn't appear already. Behaves similar to how adding tags does, I guess. Titles are added to a Category from the Tiddler Recent list (and perhaps also from the other tiddler lists?) in "some way". I have some ideas. I'm not sure how to manually add "external titles" to the lists - say I e.g open a, so far, unassociated tiddler directly from the normal sidebar and I want it included. Any suggestions? A spontaneous reflection is if these categories are not more important than tags? There seem to be more thought creating them as they cross reference multiple things (right?). The issue of tags vs categories <https://www.google.se/search?hl=en&q=categories+vs+tags&gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=JAHrVMCSBofmywO244CwCg> has come up before, of course. And we have our discussions on "tag types" of course. Another idea for the Tiddler Story, would be to show it instead as a tab in the sidebar! I.e the Tiddler Story for the current tiddler in focus. Maybe this is even *better* as it could be more permanently displayed and even easier access? I have found the Recent list to be one of the most useful sidebar tabs but this would probably be even more useful. It would probably make the TW seem more focussed on the topic at hand because, contrary to e.g tab Recent, you're not distracted from irrelevant tiddlers. Just maybe this would go for Categories too? A permanent bar somewhere (topmenu? with dropdown lists?) dynamically showing the categories of the tiddler in focus...? The categories there would be next to permanent for the area of concern. Envisioning it, I think it would really make the TW feel dedicated to the subject at hand. Thoughts? <:-) P.S ...it's become pretty clear we're not talking about a story view as I thought in my OP. -- 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.
