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Simple Colored Folder

mara-limara-li11k downloads

Automagically add color to roots folders, and customize it with Style Settings.

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Automagically add color to roots folders, and customize them with Style Settings.

tree with colored folders

📦 Features

  • Automatically applies variables & colors to root-level folders in your vault
  • Customizable colors for each folder through style settings
  • Custom styling options through template
  • Folder style changes update in real-time
  • Supports both light & dark themes
  • Support for renaming folder while keeping styling

[!warning] This plugin requires the Style Settings plugin to customize folder colors. You'll see a warning if Style Settings isn't installed.

⚙️ Usage

  1. Install the plugin
  2. Make sure you also have the Style Settings installed & enabled.
  3. Access Style settings to customize your folder color.
  4. Under the "Simple Colored folder" section, you can change colors for each root folder.

style settings

🎨 Configuration

In the plugin settings, you can customize :

  • Export to a css snippets (instead of inject into the DOM)[^1]
  • Default colors (when creating new folders)
  • Folder name prefix for CSS variable
  • Custom CSS and Style Settings templates

settings

[!NOTE] You can see some example of css template here

📥 Installation

  • From Obsidian's community plugins
  • Using BRAT with https://github.com/Mara-Li/obsidian-simple-colored-folder
  • From the release page:
    • Download the latest release
    • Unzip simple-colored-folder.zip in .obsidian/plugins/ path
    • In Obsidian settings, reload the plugin
    • Enable the plugin

🎼 Languages

  • English
  • French

To add a translation:

  1. Fork the repository
  2. Add the translation in the src/i18n/locales folder with the name of the language (ex: fr.json).
    • You can get your locale language from Obsidian using obsidian translation or using the commands (in templater for example) : <% tp.obsidian.moment.locale() %>
    • Copy the content of the en.json file in the new file
    • Translate the content
  3. Edit i18n/i18next.ts :
    • Add import * as <lang> from "./locales/<lang>.json";
    • Edit the ressource part with adding : <lang> : {translation: <lang>}

[^1]: Some styles can be broken while disabling the plugin, as it injects the folder path into tree-item.nav-folder to improve performance, instead to use :has.

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Color root-level folders with distinct colors and custom styles that update in real time and support light and dark themes. Customize each root folder’s color and style via Style Settings (Style Settings plugin required) and preserve styling when renaming folders.
FoldersAppearanceCSS
Details
Current version
1.3.0
Last updated
6 months ago
Created
Last year
Updates
33 releases
Downloads
11k
Compatible with
Obsidian 1.8.9+
License
OTHER
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Sponsor
Ko-fi
Author
mara-limara-li
github.com/Mara-Li
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  1. Community
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  3. Folders
  4. Simple Colored Folder

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