Left-hand side menu with site contents

[olayway]

Some users may want to show a left-hand side sidebar listing all their site contents. This makes sense especially for users with very large vaults.

[danymat]

I Will add my two cents
Hello!

I'm right now with a vault of ~600 notes, following ZK philosophy (https://danielmathiot.tech/notes)

I will surely migrate in the next few days, and I have a lot of insights after using obsidian publish.

Nevertheless, related to this discussion:

• a toggle option to show/not show the notes in the left in the website
• a button to display/hide the sidebar
• some customization option to put it at left/right of the page
• having a list of notes to always show at the left
  • indeed, some options to automatically add files (by regex, tag) or a manual notes selection

I hope that arises some interesting discussion, feel free to ask me more questions if I didn't express it good enough

Thanks again for all your work, I'm surely gonna contribute as soon as I can.

[rufuspollock]

@danymat thanks for the valuable reflections.

[rufuspollock]

@olayway i think this is the same kind of topic as covered in #94

I do like the tailwindcss.com/docs approach - though it is for a docs site it applies i think similarly to a pure digital garden. This obviously can't show all notes on a largish site so it probably has to be customizable at some point.

[StefanoCecere]

my needs is that i want to use flowerapp for any kind of website, with a fully configurable left side menu.
following folders structures and metadata (also with weight metafield to have manual sorting of entries)

MkDocs manages this very easily.. this is a site a created from a simple Obsidian vault (github repo linked)

there we can configure two options:

1. the top folders get in the horizontal top menu, and sub to the left
2. the top folders are in the left menu, with hierarchies

i very much prefer a configurable horizontal menu.. maybe "mapped" to some top level folder