Pin a tiddler? Force Always visible Tiddler at the top

#1

Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there a way to always force a tiddler to be visible and remain visible?
As in

  • Make it appear by default
  • Disable closing it
  • It always appears at the top, above all others

For example to act as the homepage, or as a banner

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#2

I was curious about this too, I think having a “pin tiddler to story” would be nice to have if an extension or easily implemented workflow exists

#3

Thanks, just updated the title so it is more visible

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#4

You can tag a tiddler $:/tags/AboveStory to display the contents at the top of the Story River.

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#5

You may try https://tiddlywiki.com/#SystemTag%3A%20%24%3A%2Ftags%2FAboveStory

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#6

works, but looks like it removed the card background on mine:

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#7

Well nevermind, can live with that, that worked. Thanks!

#8

While the $:/tags/AboveStory method fits your stated goals, you might also consider Hidden Setting: Content to be displayed for empty story, which allows you to designate a “falback” tiddler that is only rendered if there are no other tiddlers shown in the StoryRiver. As soon as you display other tiddlers, the “empty story” tiddler is no longer shown.

Another possibility is: TiddlyTools/Pin, which provides a tiddler toolbar button to interactively select one (or more) tiddlers to be temporarily rendered “AboveStory”. When “pinned”, the tiddler can’t be closed until you click the toolbar button again to “unpin” it.

-e

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#9

It’s not exactly answering the stated criteria, but it feels close enough to mention as a relevant option - the “pincard” solution as described in the "prerelease animation’ thread. It’s based off the “Hire Jeremy” animation at the top of tiddlywiki.com

pincard:

  • appears by default, with unique styling
  • can be closed, but then a mini version appears in the sidebar
  • defaults to on top - it can be shuffled in order by drag-and-drop the open tids, but will reappear on top if closed and re-opened from the mini view in the sidebar
#10

Thanks, will play around with it. Saw the banner but haven’t interacted with it (closed it) to see how it works