Foldable Project View

Foldable Project View declutters the Project View of the IntelliJ-based IDEs: files and directories matching your rules – READMEs, CI configs, build scripts, dotfiles, VCS-ignored files – are folded into named, colored groups or hidden altogether, so the code you work on is the first thing you see.

Available features:

• Multiple named folding rules with gitignore-like patterns, applied to the module roots or to all nested directories
• Group the matched elements or hide them from the Project View, per rule
• Theme-aware palette of group colors (Blue, Green, Orange, Rose, Violet, Yellow, Gray) or custom colors
• Built-in Ignored files rule folding the VCS-ignored files – rename, color, reorder, hide, or disable it like any other rule
• Negation (!pattern), directory-only matching (dir/), quoted names with spaces, and case-insensitive matching
• Rules reading their patterns from ignore-like files in the repository, like .foldignore or .dockerignore
• Rule set files: .foldableprojectview.yaml versioned with the project, ~/.config/foldableprojectview/rules.yaml applied to all your projects, and presets – built-in or your own – reusable via extends
• Rule presets (Documentation, CI/CD, Build, Configuration, Dotfiles, Gradle, Maven, Node.js, Python, Docker, IDE) and a live count of the elements matched by the edited rule
• Enable or disable rules without removing them, optionally fold directories, hide empty groups
• Enable/disable folding via Settings or the Project View options menu
• Search scopes based on the folding rules, e.g., in Find in Files
• Live Project View preview in the settings
• Defaults for new projects, synchronized by Settings Sync

Works in all IntelliJ-based IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, GoLand, …) on IntelliJ Platform 2025.3+. See the documentation for the details.

Free and sponsor-supported. If the plugin saves you time, consider sponsoring it via GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi, or PayPal. You can also find my other projects on GitHub.