{"id":35328,"date":"2022-03-21T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35328"},"modified":"2022-03-21T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T20:51:14","slug":"colored-folder-icons-in-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/21\/colored-folder-icons-in-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"Colored Folder Icons in Finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nostodnayr.net\/links\/2022\/03\/get-classic-coloured-folders-in-finder-with-manila\">Ryan Dotson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/nostodnayr.net\/links\/2022\/03\/get-classic-coloured-folders-in-finder-with-manila\">\n<p>I loved using labels in &lsquo;Classic&rsquo; Mac OS to colour-code files and folders in Finder. We lost this in the modern era, replaced by tags. In earlier versions of Mac OS X, they nearly filled the gap, because the whole name was coloured, but the dots of today&rsquo;s Mac OS don&rsquo;t quite fill the gap for me. I much prefer a strong visual indicator.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Manilla is a Finder extension that automates that process, making it as easy as it ever was in the old days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It sets a custom colored icon in response to a menu command, rather than linking the color to the label\/tag in the folder&rsquo;s metadata.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Dotson: I loved using labels in &lsquo;Classic&rsquo; Mac OS to colour-code files and folders in Finder. We lost this in the modern era, replaced by tags. In earlier versions of Mac OS X, they nearly filled the gap, because the whole name was coloured, but the dots of today&rsquo;s Mac OS don&rsquo;t quite fill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-21T20:29:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"0fb41426-2129-478b-9730-5eaaf0014b60","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-03-21T20:51:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AD7QUJiEpR4uXMF6q8AFLYA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[566,905,458,545,30,32,2077,608,74],"class_list":["post-35328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-color","tag-extensions","tag-finder","tag-icons","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-12","tag-metadata","tag-opensource"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35329,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35328\/revisions\/35329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}