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What's on your VS Code home screen?

Sebastian Tiedtke on July 28, 2020

The first visual you see when you open a new window Is it high in information density or sparse and 🧘 zen? Educational, fully of enterta...
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Juan F Gonzalez

I actually didn't know that you could get a custom home screen on the VSCode home screen lol.

I actually don't see that home screen that often because when I open Code I opened with whatever file I'll be working, like the times when is not an actual code file is the screen of Code's new features or "What's new in this version"

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Sebastian Tiedtke

Marquee and Xzibit collaborated to put a homescreen in your homescreen. JK! :-)

We designed Marquee to make the home screen experience not just more information but also more colorful and less stark. Also comes with neat features, like notes/todos, current weather forecast, etc. Wanna give it a try and let us know what you think, Juan?

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Juan F Gonzalez

Loved that Xzibit reference hahaha good times.
Imma put a note to remind me to use it this week. I'm curious about the todos part.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Edited

Startup Page

I set it to None, to make it work the way I wanted.

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Sebastian Tiedtke

Agreed. The default welcome page is an informative at times but a little stark. Take Marquee for a spin and tell us what you think, Pacharapol!

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Adnan Rizvan

I dig the workspace-specific todos. I'm giving Marquee a shot for sure!

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Sebastian Tiedtke

So much more to discover in Marquee. The workspace-specific todos are near the top of my favorite features too, Adnan.

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Jalal 🚀

this is the first time i know that you can customize your vs code home screen 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Sebastian Tiedtke

Well, Jalal, technically it's one extension away. However, now you know installing Marquee unlocks that for you.

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kun 🇵🇷

TIL VSCode has a home screen.

To me it's always been whatever file I worked on last 😂

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Sebastian Tiedtke

Well, it does have one now... with Marquee! :-D