can’t remember the name of that oldschool hypertext app with radial menus but it looks like the people who made the visual scripting language for unity that got bought and made free (bolt?) have also made an extension to unity called peek that replaces the inspector sidebars with close-to-mouse menus (similar idea):

Yes Bolt is the name of the company. Hypertext app with radial menus... Maybe something that Don Hopkins made? https://medium.com/@donhopkins/designing-to-facilitate-browsing-a-look-back-at-the-hyperties-workstation-browser-535eab3a3b3c

hyperties—you nailed it

autodesk also does this in some of their cad tools, although i neve really got used to that