[msephton]

I made an approximation of this for Nova editor on macOS. Though its extension system is quite limited, especially sidebar customisation, so it's missing a fair bit. But it was fun to do and it's quite useful as it is. I mention your project in the readme, though it's not a fork but a reimplementation. https://extensions.panic.com/extensions/com.gingerbeardman/c...

[frehu]

Nice! I don't have a mac to check it out, but having copycat extensions within a day of posting this is just telling me i'm on to something really useful here.

[msephton]

Cheers! I thought it was a fun concept and I wanted a project to ease me back into work after being away for a week. I'm also kinda addicted to making extensions and have done a dozen or so.

Nova has a git sidebar which does some of the same thing, but I do think there's something more that is useful to yours. Yours is definitely better because of the heatmap colouring, sadly I can't do that in Nova.

[msephton]

Here's a blog post about my attempt at your extension (with screenshot!) https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/02/24/fresh-files-exten...