Sort it!2.0

Sort it! is a simple-to-use tool specially designed for Yahoo! Widget Engine with the role of keeping you organized by providing shortcuts to frequently accessed folders. This way, you can open up to five distinct directories straight from your desktop, whether they are saved on local, removable or network locations, or even on CDs or DVDs.

Set up five folders to quickly open in Windows Explorer

In the Preferences menu of the gadget, you can enter five descriptions to tell them apart, as well as type or paste their full paths in the dedicated boxes, or click the ... buttons next to each box and use the built-in tree view to locate and select the locations.

Edit the shortcut names and colors

If you switch to the Colors tab, you will be able to customize the text color of the descriptions, as well as to turn the cabinet color from default (yellow) to gray. The third tab, Window, is available for all tools designed for Yahoo! Widget Engine. From this area, you can set the window level to always stay on top or below others (instead of normal), ask the widget to ignore mouse events and prevent dragging, as well as adjust its opacity level to make it more or less transparent.

Some inconsistent UI elements

Once all settings are made, you can just click the cabinets to open the corresponding locations in Windows Explorer. However, you should know that entries without assigned directories do not disappear from the main window. They are still displayed with the default descriptions but no action is performed when clicking their cabinets.The Yahoo! Widget Engine project has been discontinued a while back, so the platform and its widgets no longer receive updates. However, you can still download and install the application along with Sort it!.