Portals: Desktop Organization puts the contents of selected folders on a Windows desktop in customizable portals. You can adjust colors, fonts, borders, margins, header position, icon size, and backgrounds, with separate color and font settings for individual portals. Portals can be minimized, sorted using custom or predefined orders, and split into tabs linked to different folders. The folders can stay elsewhere on the computer, such as in Documents, rather than on the desktop itself. Save portal arrangements as layouts and have them apply automatically when display setups change. Settings profiles can be linked to those layouts. A keyboard shortcut can bring all portals to the top, and command-line actions can create portals or apply layouts and profiles. File previews can use QuickLook or Seer, selected in settings. The Windows installer can add buttons to folder and desktop-background context menus. The maker describes Portals as lightweight when running in the background. It is free, with a pay-what-you-want license.
Who it is for
Portals suits Windows users who want folder contents visible on the desktop and need to organize them across layouts, tabs, or display setups. It can also suit users who prefer keeping those folders elsewhere, such as Documents.
What is good
- Customizable portals can show selected folder contents.
- Tabs can link to separate folders.
- Layouts can apply when display setups change.
- QuickLook and Seer previews are supported.
- Free, with a pay-what-you-want license.
What to know first
- Available for Windows only.
- File previews require QuickLook or Seer integrations.
Verdict
Portals offers a configurable way to organize folder contents on a Windows desktop, with saved layouts and profiles for different setups. Its free, pay-what-you-want license makes it available without a required payment.
Portals: Desktop Organization plans and pricing
All plansCompared on desktop organization software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Platform support
- windows_only
- Organization model
- virtual_containers
- Automatic sorting
- Yes
- Saved layouts
- Yes
- Multi-monitor support
- Yes
