I love this idea, David, so I tried to simplify the tiddlers for my use. I 
don't know about proper plugins setup, so I have this JSON to drag to TW. I 
switched out the icon for a unicode character to keep things all in 
tiddlers.

On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 4:45:06 AM UTC-7 Anjar wrote:

> Thanks David - you're right, it was made especially for you, inspired by 
> the problem you presented and the  L+BL:)
> onsdag 31. mars 2021 kl. 03:16:55 UTC+2 skrev David Gifford:
>
>> Wow, I don't think I had seen Sidelinks, Anjar! It's not in the toolmap. 
>> I will both play with this and add it to the toolmap. Thanks a bunch.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 7:04 PM Anjar <ajar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi David, 
>>>
>>> Very interesting! It somehow reminded me of sidenotes 
>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/QNZLtqecbIU/m/T__843mBBAAJ>, 
>>> which are easily combined with details: a simple demo: 
>>> https://andjar.github.io/tiddlytext/sidelink.html Just a thought! The 
>>> macro is simple:
>>>
>>> \define sidelink(trgt, lbl)
>>> <span class="comment"><$link to=$trgt$>$lbl$</$link><span class 
>>> ="sidenote"><details><summary>$lbl$</summary><$transclude 
>>> tiddler=$trgt$></details></span></span>
>>> \end
>>>
>>> <style>
>>> .comment:hover .sidenote {
>>> background-color: yellow;
>>> }
>>>
>>> .sidenote,
>>> .marginnote {
>>> float: right;
>>> clear: right;
>>> margin-right: -50%;
>>> width: 40%;
>>> margin-top: 0.3rem;
>>> margin-bottom: 0;
>>> line-height: 1.3;
>>> vertical-align: baseline;
>>> position: relative;
>>> }
>>> </style>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Anders
>>>
>>> tirsdag 30. mars 2021 kl. 23:50:30 UTC+2 skrev David Gifford:
>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> First, thanks to Saq and si for their ideas. (I saw Si's post too late, 
>>>> but will play around with the hotzone idea later. Sounds like a good other 
>>>> way of doing this)
>>>>
>>>> I got my links+backlinks set up to work as far as I need it to. Check 
>>>> it out at:
>>>>
>>>> https://giffmex.org/experiments/l+bl.html
>>>>
>>>> If anyone would like to make this their own, adapt it, clean it up, 
>>>> package it as a plugin, host it on GitHub, I would be most pleased. I got 
>>>> it to work for me, and I wanted to share the idea rather than hoard it, 
>>>> but 
>>>> I am not really excited about doing any remaining work on it or 
>>>> maintaining 
>>>> it. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 12:28:24 PM UTC-6 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!
>>>>>
>>>>>
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