Simple Colored Folder

by Mara-Li
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Description

The Simple Colored Folder plugin enhances the visual organisation of your vault by automatically adding custom colours to root-level folders. It integrates with the Style Settings plugin, allowing you to define and modify folder colours through a user-friendly interface. Real-time updates ensure that style changes are immediately reflected, and the plugin supports both light and dark themes. You can also use CSS templates for advanced customisation or export styles as snippets. It's especially helpful for users who want a more visually intuitive file structure without cluttering their notes or folder names.

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Latest Version

6 months ago

Changelog

1.3.0 (2025-11-08)

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Simple Colored Folder

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>}

Footnotes

  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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