Do you have a large codebase where 98% of the files are not relevant at any given moment, but you have to scroll past them?
Maybe you use the SCM view to keep track, but after you make a commit, your context disappears?
That's my motivation behind making Fresh File Explorer — a VS Code extension that shows you a mix of your pending changes and recent history (x days ago, up to you), the way you'd see it in the file explorer.
A few highlights:
Multi-repo support.
Deleted files stay visible. You don't have to go through git history to find them again. Right-click → Resurrect to restore them in one step.
Search tools. Search scoped to only your fresh files. For not-so-fresh changes, there's Diff search (pickaxe), line/function history (git log -L), file history, and also searching inside search results.
Pinned section. Keep any file handy regardless of the time window. Readme on your desktop, a deleted file, or add short notes.
Grouping modes. Beyond the standard folder structure, you can group by author, commit, or moon phase.
Heatmap. Colorize files based on how recently they changed. This is not specific to the Fresh Files view and also works in the file explorer.
The extension currently has more features than users, so I'd appreciate your feedback.
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