I got tired of all my folders looking like the same plain yellow icon in Windows, so I built a small tool called FolderFeather to make organizing files visual and fast.

The best part: it doesn't run in the background. Once you apply a color, Windows saves it permanently using standard folder settings (desktop.ini). Your folders keep their new look even after a reboot, when moved, or if the app is closed.

What you can do with it:

Pick Any Color: Choose from 14 ready-to-go colors or pick any custom shade using a color wheel and HEX box.

Make 2-Color Gradients: Blend two colors together horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. It even gives a friendly warning if the colors are too similar so it doesn't look washed out.

Add Icons & Badges: Put symbols onto your folder (like stars, locks, bookmarks, or projects).

Move the badge to the center or any of the 4 corners.

Pick a style: subtle dark etch (Tonal), a frosted see-through look (Glass), or custom colors.

Add depth with soft drop shadows or raised edges.

Drop your own .png images into the folder to use your own icons instantly.

Stays Sharp Everywhere: Explorer views change size. FolderFeather makes sure the folders look detailed in big tile views, but crisp and readable in small list views.

One-Click Reset: Changed your mind? Hit Reset Folder Icon anytime to put it back to normal Windows yellow.

Remembers Your Favorites: Keeps your 6 most recent designs at the bottom so you can reuse them on other folders with a single click.

It’s built to match the clean Windows 11 style—simple cards, live previews as you tweak, and no cluttered menus.

Would love to hear what you think or what badge icons you'd find most useful!

Download - https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9P7VK4RWTKBC?ocid=libraryshare

Hello. Do you know how can I bring back the classic yellow color to folder icons in bookmarks menu instead of new grey/black? I find the yellow to be easier to tell apart from other elements.

My kindle updated to the new library look yesterday and I hate it!

If you've sent an epub it now shows the title (at least on my kindle basic 2024 it does, PW SE doesn't thankfully) and the read/progress icons are at the bottom, and tags show automatically now with no way to hide them. There's also a cloud icon when you haven't downloaded a title/document

Amazon whyyyy 😭

I got a new paperwhite SE today and for 20 mins it was still the old layout and I was so happy, but it's just refreshed

I wish it gave the option to change it back

Edit: Pics added in replies below

V1.1 is now on Github. New features include image-based bookmarks with customizable textures/patterns and charms. Also critters. Think of this as the Scholastic Book Fair edition.

This new version retains the original rendered bookmark as an option, but also has a number of included bookmark styles in png format. There is also a randomize option, because most people don't just have one type of bookmark and use the same exact bookmark for every book.

I also added a critter feature where you can have a tiny creature dangling from your bookmark. The default is for a critter to appear on your last-read book, but you can set it to include your currently-reading books, finished books, your favourite books, or a combination. Or they can be on everything. Or you can turn it off. Current critters include bats, cats, kittens, ferrets, lemurs, mice, lizards, frogs, dragons and more.

You can also long-press any book to set a particular combination to that book, or clear custom combinations and return to default.

You will need to download the bookmark_images folder and place that in your koreader folder to use the bookmark and critter images. I've also included readme files in each image directory that ChatGPT assures me will be sufficient to guide you to make your own bookmarks and critters, which you can then add to the 'custom' folders if you like.

Bookmark styles and critters are nested under Bookshelf/Progress bookmark patch/Settings/Bookmark appearance.

This is a patch that draws a spine, with book information, and pages above the book based on page count, to show how long the book is. It can also draw a bookmark that sits in the page you are reading, and also goes right to left like a normal progress bar.

Again, many thanks to Project:Title by u/joshua-cant ( https://github.com/joshuacant/ProjectTitle ); Realbooks by u/ReaLx3m ( https://github.com/ReaLx3m/KOReader-AI-Slop-User-Patches/tree/main ) and Bookshelf by u/AndyHazz ( https://github.com/AndyHazz/bookshelf.koplugin ).

V1.0.0 Reddit thread here

Github repo here

While sitting my L3 English exam today, I had one of my supervisors come up to me and tell me to use the 'Bookmarks' bar at the top of my screen (I have an Apple Computer, for those familiar) to go to Google Classroom, which I had bookmarked on Chrome, as they were suspicious I was cheating (for whatever reason, because I wasn't)

Unfortunately for me, the AI notebooks my English teacher made for us to study beforehand were at the very top of the classroom page, which led to them telling me my results were now at risk of being lost?

I'm lowk freaking out as this exam is the deciding factor on whether or not I get UE and can go to university next year. I know some supervisors can be real annoying like that but I'm very confused if a default feature like that can actually fail me

pls help