I’ve been using Lithou’s lovely Coloured Folder Snippet which relies on the top level folders having names that begin with the numbers 0-9 and the letters A-F. I also appreciate how this keeps my folders sorted in the order I desire.
My plugin idea is to hide the beginning of top-level folder display names. The folder name on the file system would not change, just the display name in the file explorer. For example a folder named ‘100 - Journals’ would be displayed as ‘Journals’. Importantly, they would still be sorted by their full file name.
For me, this would go a long way to solve the File Explorer Custom Sort problem.
The user could indicate the text to be stripped off by means of regex or some other pattern matching.
I hope I explained this idea well enough! Please let me know if you have any questions, or if you know of some way to achieve this already. Thanks!