Yeah, I think that's kind of the search I'm looking for. Need to think 
about the best way to go about that.

The pronunciation of Arkansas is highly dependent upon which state it is 
that you reside in. If you live in or close to Arkansas, then you pronounce 
it Arkan-SAW. If you live in Kansas, then it is most definitely Ar-KANSAS. 
Digression continues......

On Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 12:27:41 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote:
>
> It sounds like you want a search that works like the sidebar search but 
> that:
>
> * Only searches your business tiddlers
> * Only searches the *first* letters of the title of your businesses
>
> So, as you type "Kan" you see all the titles that start with Kan (Kanvass 
> Clothworks, Kansas Combines, Kansas Elevator, Kantina Refreshments, e.g.) 
> but by typing after Kansas the list gets smaller. So you effectively have 
> the best of both worlds. You can see everything that starts with "A", or 
> "K" or "Kan".
>
> I've always wondered why Arkansas isn't pronounced "Ar-Kansas", but I 
> digress.
>
> -- Mark
>
> On Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 10:36:23 AM UTC-8, Damon Pritchett wrote:
>>
>> My project consists of a large collection of a certain type of business 
>> in Kansas. Each business is represented by its own tiddler and contains 
>> facts about that business. The title of the tiddler is the name of the 
>> business. As one can imagine, a lot of the names begin with Kansas, but 
>> there are also a lot that begin with city names.
>>
>> I don't want to do anything that takes away from the name/title. I've 
>> thought that searching is likely the best way to approach this, but there 
>> are times when it's convenient or necessary to do some browsing.
>>
>> As I mentioned in the initial post, I have a table of contents set up 
>> with vertical tabs for each letter of the alphabet. For long lists such as 
>> K, there's a lot of scrolling and the tabs and the top of the sidebar 
>> scroll with it. This would be less of a concern if I could have to tabs and 
>> top of the sidebar not scroll.
>>
>> Breaking up into smaller pieces is what my mind is churning on in the 
>> background, but haven't come up with any ideas yet. I've also wondered if a 
>> clever method of tagging might be a way to go.
>>
>> Damon
>>
>> On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 10:35:40 PM UTC-7, TonyM wrote:
>>>
>>> Daemon
>>>
>>> Without access to your data it is hard to map a usefull breakdown 
>>> structure to apply. 
>>>
>>> Could you describe what they are?
>>>
>>> Is there any other ways you do or can subdivide your tiddlers?
>>>
>>> This may be a case of where search is best used to first reduce the size 
>>> of the set before placing it in an alphabetical index.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Tony
>>>
>>>

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