For your alternative idea, there is an edition that does something similar on shift-clicking tiddler links in the story: https://rr-tw5.github.io/#DAILY%20NOTES
Try holding the shift key and clicking a red tiddler link in the story. On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 9:06:12 PM UTC+2 Saq Imtiaz wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I believe someone on reddit posted something similar a while back, but > unfortunately I do not have a link handy. > > Where you thinking of having the zoom storyview active so only one tiddler > can be open in the story at a time? > Otherwise, we need the concept of an active or focussed tiddler in the > story, which despite discussions has yet to land in the core. > > Off the top of my head, the only easy way I see to keep track of which > tiddler the user last clicked on in a story, would require editing the page > template. > > Saq > On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 8:28:24 PM UTC+2 David Gifford wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> Yet another crazy hair-brained idea of mine. >> >> Use case: you are reading a tiddler that has a lot of links to it. You >> want to see the context of a link, but you don't want to leave your place >> in the current tiddler. Also, you don't want modal popups. >> >> My idea: a tiddler tagged either $:/tags/SideBar (or >> $:/tags/SideBarSegment, if one is using the Customizer plugin) that lists >> the title and transcludes the text field of the hard links in, and the >> backlinks to, the "target tiddler" (i.e., the tiddler that shows up after >> the hashtab in the browser bar). That way you keep your tiddler open and in >> place, but can see a scrollable list in the sidebar with the title and text >> of all the links and backlinks. >> >> Here is an example of the look and functionality I am imagining: >> https://giffmex.org/experiments/l+bl.html >> >> At the very least, if someone could tell me how to parse "target tiddler" >> in a list filter, I could experiment on my own. >> >> Alternate idea: A plugin that shows a small icon on hovering near a link >> in a tiddler, and when you click on the icon, the title and text of the >> linked tiddler appears in a sidebar tab or sidebar segment, and any tiddler >> that was there previoulsy in that sidebar viewing area is removed. >> >> Obviously either of these ideas would require a wide screen and a wide >> setup for the sidebar. But it would be a nice alternative to the two-column >> approach of the Stories plugin for Stroll. It would also mean that the >> viewtemplate approach for viewing backlinks (again, Stroll) would be less >> necessary. Side by side viewing of tiddlers is better than scrolling to the >> bottom of the target tiddler to see what the backlinks are. >> >> Thanks in advance for any feedback, help, snippets or links. Blessings! >> >> >> -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7f978a43-1adb-46a9-a2a9-618c6c9e9eedn%40googlegroups.com.
