I just started using simplemenu this morning and I like it. It does exactly 
what I want when I put it in a template tidder and use the current tiddler 
as the main tag. I don't have quite as much time on it as I do megamenu so 
will continue to play around and comment further.

On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 10:00:53 AM UTC-7 History Buff wrote:

> I echo Mat's points as well. Showing the right panes for the primary tag 
> would be very useful for me. I envision having this in a template tiddler 
> where it would use the current tiddler as the primary tag.
>
> I played around some more with it. I have a primary tag that has 1813 
> tiddlers tagged to it. There was some performance slow down, but a simple 
> filter in the advanced search tab does performs similarly. I had no way to 
> precisely time it, but it did seem a tad slower than putting a filter in 
> the advanced search tab to list all 1813 tiddlers.
>
> I was able to play around with the speed of the animation and had some fun 
> with that. I think it would also be helpful to have a tooltip show the 
> meaning of the buttons when you hover over them.
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 9:54:12 AM UTC-7 jc-ose wrote:
>
>> *History Buff, *
>>
>> That's a very good point about using $:/temp for the state tiddler. When 
>> I get a chance I think I'll update the default state tiddler to use that 
>> prefix, because the save button constantly lighting up is not ideal. 
>>
>> *Mat, *
>>
>> To your first point, I completely understand where you are coming from. I 
>> wasn't sure if it would make it confusing if that were also a clickable 
>> option, but it probably makes more sense for it to be. I'll experiment with 
>> that some and make an update in the near future. 
>>
>> To your second point, I like the look of that! I don't think changing the 
>> styling of the tiddler containing the menu is within the scope of this 
>> plugin, but I can consider taking away some of the outer borders like you 
>> did to reduce the number of boxes. I'll consider that a bit as well. 
>>
>> Thanks for checking it out and for the feedback!
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 4:00:01 AM UTC-4 Mat wrote:
>>
>>> This is very interesting. A main wiki of mine is my "household wiki" 
>>> which is very scattered in topics (shopping lists, reference lists, 
>>> emergency stuff etc etc) and your creation might make it easier to navigate 
>>> within one such space at a time.
>>> Two thoughts:
>>>
>>> 1) After clicking a menu item (e.g Tiddler A) I don't find a way to go 
>>> back to primary Tag level. I was expecting that clicking "Primary Tag" in 
>>> the menu would trigger the view just like clicking "Tiddler A" in the menu. 
>>> Also the breadcrumb "Primary Tag" does not bring back that view, which I 
>>> also expected.
>>>
>>> 2) This is a case where the default tiddler frame is a visually 
>>> redundant, even distracting. Below is a mockup image of an alternative 
>>> view. This is possible by styling backgrounds etc to be transparent, e.g 
>>> conditionally for tiddlers tagged, say, MegaMenu.
>>>
>>> <:-)
>>>
>>> [image: mega2.png] 
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 1:55:59 AM UTC+2 jc-ose wrote:
>>>
>>>> I want to introduce a plugin I’ve been working on called MegaMenu. It 
>>>> provides a macro that generates a menu you can use for navigating your 
>>>> wiki. It is inspired by "megamenu’s" used by websites that have very large 
>>>> catalogues and/or many pages that you can navigate to. My hope is that as 
>>>> your wiki grows, you can continue to use this menu and it should scale 
>>>> well 
>>>> without making navigation any more difficult. At its core, it captures 
>>>> relationships between tiddlers (through tags) similarly to how the 
>>>> built-in 
>>>> tableofcontents macro works. However it does this in a neat interface and 
>>>> goes one step further by attempting to group links together that have 
>>>> multiple tags in common.
>>>>
>>>>  [image: MegaMenuImg.png]
>>>>
>>>> It shows three levels of links at any time with the possibility to dive 
>>>> deeper using various controls.
>>>>
>>>> This is my first public plugin I’ve written for the community, so I’m 
>>>> very interested in what you think and if you have ideas for how it could 
>>>> potentially be improved. My hope is that this is intuitive to use. Also, 
>>>> just keep in mind that this uses functionality in TW version 5.1.23, so 
>>>> you 
>>>> will need that version (or later) for the menu to work correctly.
>>>>
>>>> I recommend giving it a try first on TiddlyWiki.com to see it in action!
>>>>
>>>> Github Repo:  https://github.com/jc-ose/MegaMenu
>>>>
>>>> Demo: https://jc-ose.github.io/MegaMenu/
>>>>
>>>> Some final thoughts: I am not a developer, so it’s possible that I’ve 
>>>> missed some cross-browser compatibility bits to the css, but in my limited 
>>>> testing it seems to work well. It should work on mobile too.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what you think!
>>>>
>>>

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