File Metro

File Metro visualizes your workspace as a metro map. Files are stations, dependencies are lines.

Philosophy

I built File Metro based on a simple belief: links should be intentional.

In an era of auto-generated backlinks and knowledge graphs, I found that true understanding comes from gardening your connections, not just accumulating them. I wanted a tool that forces me to manually curate the relationships between my notes—to treat my knowledge base as a spatial map rather than a database.

Personally, I found this spatial, manual approach to be very comfortable for coding as well. Visualizing your codebase as a metro map helps you build a mental model of your project's architecture that a file tree simply can't match.

Features

• Local Metro View: A dedicated sidebar view that syncs with your active file.
• Visual Map: Drag & drop files to create stations.
• Connections: Hold Alt + Drag between stations to link them.
• Organization: Color code stations and add status marks (Check, Star).
• Batch Actions: Multi-select (Shift + Click) to color, mark, or delete groups.
• Theme Aware: Adapts to Light and Dark modes.

Usage

1. Open Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P).
2. Run "Metro: Open Metro View".
3. Drag files from Explorer to the map.

Shortcuts

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.