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How things work
Privacy
Local only. Everything runs in your browser — no uploads,
no servers, no tracking.
Loading data
Folder. Uses the File System Access API — supported in
Chrome and Edge. Subfolders load lazily for performance.
ZIP. Drop in any
.zip to explore its full
structure without extracting. Works in all modern browsers.
JSON. Loads any
.json file as an interactive
tree. Arrays of objects use name, title,
label, or id as labels when available.
GitHub. Enter
owner/repo and an optional
branch to load any public repository. Uses the GitHub API —
rate limits may apply.
Annotations
💬 Comments. Hover a row and click to add a short note.
Appears inline as ← your note. Click again to edit or
close. Saved across reloads.
🎨 Highlights. Pick from 6 colours to tint a row. On
folders, use 📂 inside the palette to extend the colour to
all contents. Changing colour while folder highlight is active
updates both together.
📋 Legend. Once a row is coloured, attach a label to that
colour (e.g. “backend”). Labels are shared
across all nodes of the same colour and appear as a live panel
below the tree. Each label must be unique.
🗑 Clearing. Colors wipes all highlights and legend
labels. Legend clears labels only. Comments clears
all comments. All three also clear the corresponding
localStorage data.
Export
Export view captures exactly what is expanded.
Export full expands everything first. Comments, highlights,
and the legend are all included. UI buttons and inputs are never
exported.
Theme background. Toggle whether exports include the
current theme background or use a transparent background.
Other
Advanced icons. Replaces generic file emoji with file-type
icons based on extension. Loaded from the web and cached locally.
May slow down very large trees slightly.
Performance. Expanding very large trees may take a moment,
especially with “Expand all”.
JSON display. For arrays of objects, common fields
(
name, username, title,
id) are used as node labels when available.