make sidenotes plugin appear in sidebartabs plugin or similar function

my basic goal here is to be able to post numerous news links on the sidebar but have them appear in a tab, so i can save space. this doesn’t have to be through sidenotes and sidebartabs, if anyone can suggest other plugins, these are just the only two i know of that will do this.

the problem is that to make sidenotes work, you have to place this ===> <?php get_sidenotes(); ?>
<?php if (is_active_sidebar(‘right_sidebar’)) echo ” ;?> <==== into the actual template. but sidebartabs can only display actual widgets dragged onto the sidebar.

what can i do to call up the sidenotes function within an invisible widget so that i can make that appear in sidebartabs?