Portals: Desktop Organization

What Portals: Desktop Organization is

Portals: Desktop Organization displays selected folder contents directly on a Windows desktop as customizable portals. Users can adjust colors, fonts, borders, margins, header placement, icon sizes, and backgrounds; individual portals can override some settings. Portals can be minimized, sorted with predefined or custom orders, and divided into tabs linked to different folders. The folders themselves can be stored outside the desktop, such as in Documents. Users can save portal arrangements as layouts and apply them automatically when display setups change, then link settings profiles to those layouts. A configurable keyboard shortcut brings all portals to the top. The application also supports command-line actions for creating portals and applying layouts or profiles. It can use QuickLook or Seer for file previews, selected in settings. Its Windows installer can add registry keys for Portals buttons in folder and desktop-background context menus. The maker describes the app as lightweight with minimal resource use in the background. Portals is free with a pay-what-you-want license, allowing users to enter any amount.