I’m new to this thread, is this a plugin that I can use in an existed wiki?
Can there be a view toolbar button to switch from normal mode to multi-column mode? I think there will be more mods in the future, like excalidraw kanban mode, like Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories, and we switch between mode to get different view of our wiki.
I also want to develop a “knowledge graph view” that replaces the whole storyriver with a single echarts widget.
The smart thing with this is to create a new layout. Basically starting with a clone of the existing page template with the SystemTag: $:/tags/Layout then we are all free to jump between different layouts.
The multi-column Layout / Storyview here can be switched in and out and this design approach makes all layouts available for the treatment of the same content.
That is very useful! It works well!
I played with it a bit. And is also useful if you got your column placement wrong (likely rare, I doubt it needs any function to move columns). FYI I was able to clone a column to a new place and then remove the original column. Effectively a “column move”.
Neat stuff!
Grazie tanto, TT
Right! One of the most useful things for power control of layout about MCL (MultiColumn Layout — a non-linear personal web notebook) is the ENSEMBLE — which saves both layout and Tiddlers.
That allows you to develop multiple column layouts easily that can be saved and loaded at will.
TT
TEST #8 - Simple Jukebox
This is just one column so far. Nothing you can’t do already in TW. But MCL makes a lot of things simpler visually.
Right. Over years TW has had variant stylist things. Kanban already, more than once. They are good IF you need just that.
TBH, I think what @BurningTreeC is doing on this is real neat in that he’s giving a column “framework” you can use many ways.
I think it a liberating approach.
Just a comment
TT
Hi @linonetwo , you can use this plugin in a current prerelease build of tiddlywiki, yes
that would be a great addition!
Best wishes,
Simon
Ciao @BurningTreeC
I noticed in the beta v37.0 you enabled configuration switching of the Right Sidebar to the left (and the Left Sidebar to the right, if it exists).
That is extremely useful! It makes authoring work using MCL easier in that you can move the sidebar to a place it does not obscure any work-in-progress.
Saluti a te, TT
#Comment On The Ensemble Approach
I looked at what @BurningTreeC saves in an “Ensemble”.
It is brilliant and very supportive of dynamic experimentation with layouts. The data recorded is extensive. It includes the main layout settings and list fields for the Tiddlers in every column. Saves all of that and reloads it at will.
Very clever!
Example …
Somewhat in awe,
TT
TEST #9 – Quick Ad-Hoc Utility Building
In this example of using MCL I’m playing with understanding SVG in TW. Each column applies different styles to a few TW SVG icons to examine the basic effect.
My point is this whole thing was really quickly done. Works well for the aim. One Ensemble will do it. Really helps practical utility work.
TT
Hi all,
version 0.38.0 is out! 
https://burningtreec.github.io/tiddlywiki-multi-columns/
I’ve just rebuilt the sidebar to use flexbox css
I’m using the MCL at work at the moment and I’m pretty happy about it.
How about you? Are you using it and for what purpose? I’m curious … 
Do you have any other ideas that I could implement?
Best wishes,
Simon
It is looking great.
Of note with your side bar change, one of my own mods tagged $:/tags/SideBarSegment now displays in the sidebar when it was not earlier.
Perhaps with next update you could describe the Ensemble in the side bar such as with
An ensemble is the columns and tiddlers displayed in each
or something.
Perhaps you could add your own version of the heading resizer;
multi-column-customiser.json (1.3 KB)
I had to readjust the buttons to be 1em form the right so It did not interfere with your Right hands side, hamburger menu.
See here https://multi-column.tiddlyhost.com/ where I trialled it on mobile, as expected a simple slide right lets me see each column. This is to me a wonderful way to publish feature rich mobile sites with a swipe to access multiple story columns. Next I will introduce some customisations discuissed in this thread such as a menu bar and top of story titles etc… so we know which story we are looking at,
By the way if you want to publish at multi-column.tiddlyhost.com perhaps I can give it to you?
Just a reminder that for casual readers it’s very tough to find the URL for this; one needs to scroll up through 200 messages. I’d recommend repeating the URL in each post announcing changes.
Thank you @TW_Tones
Yes, now they should show up. Though I don’t know how well they work with the sidebar-tabs scroll-overflow. I’ll have to test that a little bit
Yes I could do that. English is not my native language, so I don’t know what the best spelling could be for this.
I could and I think it’s something users would like to see. I also think, that everything I would add in that direction would be sort of opinionated so I don’t know if I wanna do that.
Hmmm, yes that may be a problem on mobile
I’m looking forward to see your customizations!
That’s a good idea, I could make that configurable
No thanks, I’m fine with my github page. But thank you for the offer!
Best wishes,
Simon
Thank you @jeremyruston , I forgot about posting the URL
Here it is: MultiColumn Layout — a non-linear personal web notebook
If I got you correctly, there’s now a configuration option to show the sidebar buttons (hamburgers) in a top panel
Hi all,
there’s a new feature which works in vertical view, but not in horizontal view:
one can doubleclick or ctrl-doubleclick on a column to make it wider or more narrow respectively
Best wishes,
Simon
Hi, maybe you can add it to the https://tw-cpl.netlify.app/ , so we can download it in a click.
Or you can upload it to the github release (via github action autoupload or something), then I can help you register it to the cpl.
so I have identify svg component’s to alter.