Perhaps a tiddler toolbar button that allows you to "pin" a tiddler to the sidebar and show information about it would be a better user experience.
On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 9:16:51 PM UTC+2 Saq Imtiaz wrote: > Aha OK now I understand what you are thinking of. The limitation here is > that this value only updates when you navigate to a new tiddler via a link, > but not when you just scroll to another already open tiddler and click on > it. > > Try this filter: > > [{$:/HistoryList!!current-tiddler}] > > On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 9:11:01 PM UTC+2 David Gifford wrote: > >> Hi Saq >> >> Thanks for the quick response. >> >> There must be some way to get this. When you go to Control panel > >> Settings, and set the Navigation Address Bar to "include the target >> tiddler", the browser knows which tiddler to grab and add as #. So in >> theory shouldn't we be able to grab the same thin*g?* >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 1:06 PM Saq Imtiaz <saq.i...@gmail.com> 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 a topic in the >>> Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/IVMObMnrk0s/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> tiddlywiki+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/31efa2f1-be1f-4865-8e14-25442b0969b9n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/31efa2f1-be1f-4865-8e14-25442b0969b9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- 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/5663b01c-ea33-4479-a3eb-ec1b8c0c2e0en%40googlegroups.com.