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How to Pin Files in Sidebar in VSCode IDE to Avoid Searching For Files in Long Projects
Jul 8, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you a very
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important VS code extension which will
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save you a lot of time. So if you want
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to pin your files only the files that
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you're working with, there is an
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extension. If you have a very long
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project such as this, this is I'm
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working on a Laravel project. But I
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basically edit a bunch of files only.
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It's suppose inside my routes folder.
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I'm just editing this these two files
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only. So I don't need to go to this
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entirety of this folder. So there is
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this one extension that you can install
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which is just files. You can pin your
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files in the sidebar.
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So this is the extension here. It will
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select only the files that you're
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working with.
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So this is the file just files if you
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just write this the very first extension
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which comes right here. So what you need
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to do click on the install button and as
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soon as you install this extension. So
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there will be this thing added right
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here. If you see
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just files explorer.
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So if you just click this now there will
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be two files added. So it will appear
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like this. You will see that just files
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explorer. So now if you want to add some
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files in the workspace at the sidebar
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you will see this option will appear add
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to just files. So just select all the
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files that you will be working on.
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Simply select one by one like this.
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You can see that how easy it is using
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this extension. Just select all the
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files that you're working with. So now
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you can directly open these files from
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the sidebar.
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You can see how easy it is to navigate
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between different files in the project.
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You no longer need to go to the
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entirety. You can just scroll down right
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here to create more space. So now you
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can see we are only working with these
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files. We are editing these files. So
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this will save you a lot of time. So no
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longer need to go to to the long for
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project. You can only select a bunch of
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files and then edit them.
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So in this easy way
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you can use this extension just install
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it activate this. So then it will add
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this just file explorer and here you can
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add
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if you want to remove it you can click
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this. So this will remove it. So you can
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see how easy it is. Just go to any
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folder just add this file. So I
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personally use this extension a lot to
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pin my files right in the sidebar
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section to easily get access to those
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files. So the extension is just files.
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Simply install it and start using it.
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