#105

That is something I want to do eventually, but it wasn’t possible with CSS alone, so will have to be part of the plugin version in future

#106

Did you get this to work yet? I have the same problemo.

#107

Thanks for your effort. I just hope there was a way to arrange notes in this mode.
Also when I close a note or something like that happens the focus from one notes get lost and the slide goes somewhere between notes. I hope there was a way to keep the focus on the note too.

#108

How about just moving the title-container to the top without having anything on the right? Can that be done with CSS?

#109

Ward Cunningham may have been using a similar UI prior to it for other projects, but he unveiled the Smallest Federated Wiki at IndieWeb Camp 2011 in late June: 2011/Smallest Federated Wiki - IndieWeb. I don’t have a receipt to prove it, but I have to suspect that Andy’s version was certainly influenced by Cunningham’s work.

Mike Caulfield, subsequent author of the influential The Garden and the Stream: a Technopastoral, Iterated on the Smallest Federated Wiki and created a WordPress-based plugin shortly thereafter called Wikity that used some of the card-based UI that Obsidian comes with out of the box.

Both had some early influence on the UI-based research that the IndieWeb space has done since. For those interested, there’s also a sub-group within it focusing on digital gardens, commonplace books, Zettelkasten, etc. that can be found here: commonplace book - IndieWeb

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#110

Could someone kindly hint me to where I find information on how to actually install this Andy Matuschak Mode?

#111

It’s a css snippet, so go to Setting>Appearance>CSS snippets and look for the little folder icon over on the right. Click that and make a new file in that folder, with the code from here. Call it AndyMode.css (or somesuch - keeping the .css), and save.
Then in CSS snippets, refresh the setting (the circling arrows icon). Then scroll down to AndyMode` and ‘Enable’ the snippet (ie load it). BOOM! you should be good to slide panes back and forth…
nb - apologies if this is patronisingly hand-holdy for your skill level :slight_smile:

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#112

no, this is not patronisingly hand-holdy at all, but just extremely friendly and courteous. Thanks you ever so much.

Could you kindly just link to the very text box I should take the code from?

#113

Cool!
The code is ^ up there, right at the top of this post. BUT… I just remembered that it death_au actually turned it into a plugin! So you can just go to ‘Community Plugins’ in Obsidian settings, search for ‘Andy Mode’, and boom, you’re golden.