Octotree

3 July 2014

(Edited on 31 March 2018 to update the keyboard shortcuts)

I was introduced to a Chrome extension yesterday by Kenneth Kalmer that’s completely changed my GitHub experience. Introducing Octotree, a sidebar for GitHub that shows a repository’s code in a tree structure.

Take a look-see

It’s a mystery that GitHub doesn’t include this by default.

You can download the extension by going to Octotree on the Chrome Web Store

After that, just browse to a GitHub repository and hit Ctrl+Shift+S or Cmd+Shift+S and you’re set! To browse private repositories you’ll have to set up an API token. Instructions will show up in the sidebar when you’re browsing a private repo.