Use awesome-pages plugin for easier directory pages configuration

[alyssadai]

Description

When we want to organize docs pages in subdirectories (paths), mkdocs doesn't have a built-in way of defining directories that a set of pages should live under, and instead you have to specify the entire path to each .md file in mkdocs.yml, e.g.:

    - Running cohort queries:
        - Search the public nodes: "user_guide/public_nodes.md"
        - How to use the query tool: "user_guide/query_tool.md"
        - Querying the API directly: "user_guide/api.md"

This quickly gets tedious if you have a lot of docs pages or want a slightly more nested docs structure.

The awesome-pages plugin (the top navigation plugin for mkdocs, see https://github.com/mkdocs/catalog?tab=readme-ov-file#-navigation--page-building) helps solve this problem by allowing you to define the docs structure in a .pages file in your docs directory instead of mkdocs.yml. Here you can specify the name / order / etc. of both files and directories, using the same nav attribute (by default, it should include all files in a directory you specify).

If desired, you can then use .pages in a subdirectory to control the order/names of files in just those subdirectory.

This could make it more intuitive to organize the docs, as each directory could have its own .pages, and also minimizes repetition.

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