Hi,
With a lot of help from others I created a split button effect (top bottom) I use this on tiddlers to
1 increment or decrement an integer which is used by my custom plugins to rate (score 1 to 100) tiddlers based on my subjective view of their value
2 manage a review system whereby I make sure tiddlers do not get totally forgotten by attributing each an integer number of days after which the tiddler should be given a quick review
3 provide a feature to move a tiddler up or down the story river relative to the others to help cluster a tiddler I am editing with ones I need to refer to.
In the above picture…
1 The rating value has a purple box with a current value of 100 followed by it’s increment and decrement buttons (the box gradually changes colour according to the value giving a visual indication of importance)
2 Next a bell with a review interval of 3 days so it will be flagged 3 days after my most recent review, typically this number starts small and increases with time to some stable value, it is followed by it’s increment and decrement buttons.
3 The final up-down arrow pair will move this tiddler up and down the story river relative to the other tiddlers so that I can cluster tiddlers of interest with the one I am currently editing.
The increment and decrement buttons appear vertically stacked by means of CSS.
The colour change effect is achieved by using SVG icons which can be accessed by TW because SVG text is parsed by TW before rendering.
The increment and decrement buttons are small - easiest to use on a lap-desktop, I can also use them fairly easily on my half A5 sized tablet its still possible to accurately tap the increment or decrement buttons, they are just about usable on my mobile phone but I would usually wait until I got home before using them extensively.
An early version of the setup below can be found on this thread here…
https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/work-on-a-rate-tiddlers-plugin/8504/14
Scroll down to find my attachment - $__plugins_jonnie45_ReviewTiddlers.json (43.1 KB)
This showcases an early version of the rate tiddlers plugin but contains I believe (working from memory) all that is needed to get the idea of the split button effect. If anyone has interest and needs more let me know.