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Folder Icons for Devs: Making My Desktop Less Messy

Thea on June 13, 2023

I've made a decision to share something that has helped me organize my digital life and make my desktop a lot cleaner. Let me introduce Folder Icon...
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Elliot Brenya sarfo

This is awesome @highflyer910 🫢🏽 Can I get the wallpaper also πŸ˜…

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Thea

Is it ok, if I uppload it here?:)

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Elliot Brenya sarfo

Yh

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Elliot Brenya sarfo

thanks

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Christer SΓΆderlund

That's actually quite interesting, it could be a perfect combination with my app dirorganizer.com, I wrote it to sort files into folders. As you can make your own rules for which extensions belong to which group. You could easily use it for that as well!

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Thea

I'm glad you find the folder icons interesting.:)
Your app looks very useful for sorting files. I'll check it out.
Thanks for sharing!

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Freddy Hidalgo-Monchez

Love it! Great work Thea πŸ˜ƒ

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Thea

Thank you Freddy! :)

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Victorien Sukarieh

have you tried putting the icon in the middle of the folder to make it look bigger?
and you could separate them in folders (ex. languages, frameworks, tools, utilities
,..)

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Thea

I actually tried putting the icon in the middle, but it didn't look good and aesthetic :)
And regarding organizing the icons into separate folders, you're absolutely right, but users can easily organize them into folders based on their needs.

I appreciate your feedback and if you have more ideas, feel free to share. Thank you!

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Fyodor

What OS is it for?

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Thea

Windows and Linux. Later will make for Mac too:)

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ruthmoog

Very cute! I like to customise my desktop icons, I saw someone made their folders look like a field of cows ... yours are much more helpful!

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Thea

Thank you! ❀️