This is great! Thanks for sharing. One usability issue for me is that the context menu entries are shown only in the file explorer, but NOT on the open files pane nor on the file tab right click menu. This kind of forces me to go back to file explorer whenever I want to work with file markers. It would be awesome if the context menu could be included everywhere where a file context menu is shown. Thanks.
That make sense. I'll check that one. But for now, I think the work around is to use Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + M (Default shortcut key) to toggle between markers for the opened file.
Hey HN! Built this on a Saturday to scratch my own itch.
I'm doing a backend codebase migration and kept losing track of which files I'd reviewed and ported. Tried spreadsheets (got stale), comments like // MIGRATED (clutters code), and deleting finished files (TypeScript screamed at me with 200+ errors. Did I keep doing it anyway? Yes.).
I just wanted to look at the file tree and see what's done.
So I built this. Right-click a file, mark it as Done/In Progress/Pending/etc., badge shows up in the Explorer. Comes with 6 built-in markers but you can define your own. Markers persist in .vscode/file-markers.json for team sharing or gitignore it for personal use.
Vibe coded the whole thing with Claude in one sitting.
