Folder Color Coding

[akhilesh-balaji]

It would be nice if I could color-code folders and files, just like you can in macOS. How about a powertoy for this?

[gczark]

There is a software for this, check 'foldermarker'. There's a free version. The icons are well made and I think it suits your needs.

[DorsalAxe]

Personally, I'd love to see this concept go beyond colour-coding and be a fully robust file tagging system. In fact I've actually suggested this before (see #150)

Windows does already have a tagging function, but it's limited, cumbersome and rather obscure. Something that's much more accessible like on macOS would be fantastic to have.

[TheJoeFin]

How would the new Power Toy save this tag data? Tags are supported for some file types today, but not all. Would there be a metadata files associated with a directory or with each file which stores the tags?

[Jay-o-Way]

There is a software for this, check 'foldermarker'. There's a free version. The icons are well made and I think it suits your needs.

Looks interesting, I think I will try that.

Tags are supported for some file types today, but not all.

Indeed. Even PDF files don't allow labels/tags 😐

[Jay-o-Way]

How would the new Power Toy save this tag data? (...) Would there be a metadata files associated with a directory or with each file which stores the tags?

What about the desktop.ini file?

[jonaskohl]

I created a small app a while ago which adds a "Tag" option to the context menu of folders, which just changes the folder icon to a recoloured one (using SHGetSetFolderCustomSettings). Maybe something similar could be implemented in PowerToys?

[akhilesh-balaji]

@jonaskohl Yes, sounds good!

[Aaron-Junker]

/dup #150

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