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Allow hiding unwanted sub-sections
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Description
# Feature request
Provide an option to filter/hide sub-sections/topics of documentation. This can be a toggle and/or shortcut that hides a topic (and conversely un-hide from preferences or from the Documentation's root page).
## Summary
Currently, some documentation are in-depth and contain a number of topics (for example, Terraform contains 204 topics). These topics would fill up the sidebar making it inconvenient to scroll/select through plus the content within them would also be included with searches.
Specifying a subset that we want to focus our attention on would not only increase performance but also make this tool more usable than the original sources this information is coming from.
## Examples
Using Terraform as an example, the included documentation contains 204 topics available for searching.

Usually, I would only work with a subset of platforms/providers. If I want to search for a specific subnet resource type, I can search for "subnet" through my interfaces but this returns a long list from all providers.

If I know I'm only working in OpenStack, then I will need to search for it within these results (notice it at the bottom of the list). If I was able to pre-define which topics to filter all searches and listings, I would be able to quickly identify the resource I need.
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