feature request: floating tiddlers

[tgirod]

I often find myself moving back-and-forth between the tiddler I'm editing and other tiddlers I've opened. When some tiddlers are long-ish, it translates to a lot of scrolling, which is not really convenient.

This could be made easier if it was possible to float one or more tiddlers - they would move to a second column and stay visible, like the sidebar.

[Spangenhelm]

:+1: this is an old thread but still a good idea and i agree that navigation thru open tiddlers is not easy and two columns would greatly improve it.

[Jermolene]

I'd like to add support for a multicolumn layout that makes use of the extra space of wider screens. I think all the pieces are already there: imagine a second story list displayed within the sidebar, and a dropdown to select which story list should be used for navigation.

[Spangenhelm]

Wow this would be super ! But at minima could we simply use a css "hack" like "floating" property to have one tiddler on the left or right of another one ? You know: one button and hop we have two tiddler side by side ?

[tobibeer]

This sounds like a good usecase for a(n enhanced) "jump" command, in both edit and viewmode ...even with dynamic "jump back" buttons conditionally displayed in the toolbar of the source and target tiddler when using the jump command, to jump back and forth between the source and the target, i.e.

1. select a target tiddler tiddler to jump to, e.g. via some (filterable) popup
2. click jump back button at target tiddler to jump back to the source tiddler
3. click jump back button at original tiddler to jump back to the source tiddler
4. select another target tiddler, thus defining a new pair of tiddlers to jump back and forth using jump back buttons, removing the previous ones

Basic jump command implementations

• http://eucaly-tw5.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Feucaly%2Fquickjump
• http://classic.tiddlywiki.com

[giffmex]

Stroll, Muuri have multiple columns, and there are plugins for floating tiddlers. Please close this issue.

[giffmex]

I'd like to add support for a multicolumn layout that makes use of the extra space of wider screens. I think all the pieces are already there: imagine a second story list displayed within the sidebar, and a dropdown to select which story list should be used for navigation.

Enter Stroll two years ago! https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html

[pmario]

@giffmex A link to the latest version would be nice.

[pmario]

@Jermolene ... bump for close. There are is the BTCs multi column wiki, which imo does what the OP requests and a lot more. see: https://burningtreec.github.io/tiddlywiki-multi-columns/

[Jermolene]

Thanks @pmario