Side Tabs

[Zainab]

Hello all, 

I'm new to TiddlyWiki! Enjoying the learning curve as I'm completely new to wiki software and programming. 

A rudimentary question: how can I organize or hide certain tabs that are on the side bar? 

Thanks, 

Zainab 

[Mat]

Welcome Zainab... and sorry.

Sorry because your very reasonable question would frankly require quite an explanation if the answer is to make sense. Now that I answer this, I'm astonished that such a basic question can't be answered more easily. Instead, here is not a great explanation and it will for sure sound really strange but... well, it will at least work:

To reorder

Put this in a new tiddler and save the tiddler so yo see the tag:  <<tag "$:/tags/SideBar">>

Click the tag you see and drag'n drop to reorder the titles therein. This changes the order in the sidebar.

To hide a tab is more intricate:

Go to $:/core/ui/SideBarSegments/tabs - to do this, you can for instance copy-paste this strange title into the same tiddler that you put the tag in and then save that tiddler again - and then click on the link you see.

Once there, you edit the tabsList filter therein like so

tabsList="[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/SideBar]!has[draft.of]] -THENAMEOFTHETABYOUWANTTOREMOVE"

i.a a minus sign in front of the tab title. Which tab title you ask? You find the titles in the yellow tag where you reordered them.

If it is any comfort I just posted a request for a small improvement on this matter.

<:-)

[Zainab]

Thank you!