Wedge

A file shelf on the edge of your screen
Wedge files into the side of your screen while you work, and drag them out when you need them.

wedge.regncreative.com

   

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Wedge was called Stash. Same app, new name and logo with 2.0. Stash 1.x updates to Wedge by itself and keeps every shelf and setting.

What is Wedge?

Windows has no good place to park files while you work, so they pile up on the desktop or get lost in Downloads.

Wedge keeps your shelves on the edge of the screen. Start dragging a file anywhere and colored shelf tabs slide out; drop it on one. Click a tab and that shelf opens like a drawer, ready to drag files back into any app. Wedge only remembers where your files are: they stay where they are on disk.

It is small and quiet: a 5 MB installer, the WebView2 engine that comes with Windows, and no CPU use while it waits at the edge.

Features

Collect from anywhere

• Shelves on the screen edge: tucked-in tabs slide out the moment you start dragging a file from File Explorer, the desktop or a browser; drop on the shelf you want
• Drawers: click a tab to pull its shelf out; drag a card onto another tab to move it
• Pocket: collect files from different folders, then drag them all out in one go (the pocket empties itself)
• Automatic shelves: new downloads and screenshots land on their own shelves; rules send files to the right shelf by type
• Right-click → Add to Wedge in File Explorer (on Windows 11 under Show more options), Ctrl+V for files, images, links and text, and from your phone by scanning a QR code

Share

• Shared shelves: turn a Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox folder into a shelf. Files you drop are copied into the folder; whatever a friend (or your other PC) puts there shows up on your shelf

Find and use

• Real previews: every card shows the file as File Explorer would; Space opens Quick Look; desktop widgets preview on hover
• Search inside files: PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, text and code, across every shelf
• Quick actions: ZIP, convert images (JPG, PNG, WebP), reduce size (never makes a file bigger), copy into a folder, open all, drag a whole shelf out as one ZIP
• Notes, tags and reminders on any file; temporary shelves that clear themselves after 24 hours, 7 or 30 days
• Desktop widgets: pin a shelf to the desktop

Plus

• Its own look: colored index tabs, cards with real previews, dark and light themes, a color and an icon per shelf
• Multi-select: Ctrl/Shift+click, then drag, pin or remove several files at once
• Keyboard friendly: move, open, pin and remove without the mouse (shortcuts)
• Global shortcut: open the drawer with Ctrl+Shift+Space (customizable)
• Steps aside while a game, a video or a presentation runs full screen
• English, Turkish and Russian (Russian by @alkidnn)
• Signed updates from GitHub Releases, with an opt-in beta channel
• Export / import: move your shelves and settings to another PC
• Missing-file awareness: deleted or moved files show as unavailable until you clear them
• Private: no account, no telemetry (privacy)

Screenshots

   

Installation

1. Download from wedge.regncreative.com or the latest release (Wedge_<version>_x64-setup.exe)
2. Run the installer; no administrator rights needed
3. On first start, choose whether Wedge starts with Windows and adds Add to Wedge to File Explorer's right-click menu (you can change both later in Settings)
4. Start dragging a file: your shelves slide out of the right edge of the screen. Or click a tab, the tray icon, or press Ctrl+Shift+Space

Coming from Stash? Installing Wedge replaces Stash 1.x, and your shelves and settings move from %APPDATA%\Stash to %APPDATA%\Wedge on the first start.

A Microsoft Store release is being prepared (checklist).

For developers

Requires Windows 10/11, Node.js 22 (.nvmrc), Rust and the Visual Studio C++ Build Tools (Tauri prerequisites).

npm ci
npm run dev

See CONTRIBUTING.md for tests and conventions.

Tech stack

• Tauri 2 with a Rust backend; UI in React, TypeScript and Vite
• Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Zustand
• rusqlite (SQLite), the windows crate for shell icons, drag detection and the edge window, drag for native drag-out
• Tauri plugins for tray, global shortcut, autostart, notifications, dialogs, logging and signed updates
• Vitest, cargo test and Playwright for tests; GitHub Actions on Windows for CI and releases

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Windows                 │
│  Tray · Global hotkey · Shell / files   │
└───────────────────┬─────────────────────┘
                    │
┌───────────────────▼─────────────────────┐
│           Rust backend (Tauri)          │
│  Edge window · Drag watch · Widgets     │
│  SQLite (rusqlite) · validated commands │
└───────────────────┬─────────────────────┘
                    │ invoke / events
┌───────────────────▼─────────────────────┐
│     React tabs and drawer (WebView2)    │
│  window.stash API · shelves · settings  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Inside the code the app still goes by its old name in places (window.stash, useStashStore, STASH_* variables); only what people see was renamed.

Project structure

assets/brand/     Logo and tray glyph (SVG sources for every icon)
src/
  renderer/       React UI (edge tabs, drawer, widgets); lib/api.ts bridges to Rust
  shared/         Types and translations (locales/)
src-tauri/
  src/            Rust backend: commands, database, edge window, drag watch, shared shelves, updater
  windows/        Installer hooks (upgrade from Stash 1.x, clean uninstall)
  tauri.conf.json App, window, bundle and updater configuration
tests/
  unit/           Vitest
  e2e/            Playwright, driving the real wedge.exe
scripts/          Release and icon helpers

Roadmap

• Shelves, drag and drop, global shortcut, themes, Turkish and English
• Russian
• Signed auto-updates with staged rollouts and a beta channel
• 2.0: rebuilt on Tauri (5 MB installer)
• Automatic shelves, rules, content search, Quick Look
• Phone to PC, desktop widgets, quick actions
• Shelves on the screen edge, pocket, shared shelves (cloud folders), new design
• New name and logo: Wedge
• Next version: choose which display (and edge) the shelves live on, for multi-monitor setups
• Quick notes: a shelf you type into directly, docked to the edge like the others
• Portable version: a .zip that keeps its shelves and settings in its own folder (#17)
• Code signing
• Microsoft Store and winget
• Share links
• Smarter search

Releases and updates

Installed copies check GitHub Releases for updates on launch and from the tray or Settings. Users can opt into beta versions in Settings.

Releases are built by GitHub Actions, not on a developer machine: push a version tag and the Release workflow tests, builds and uploads the installer to a draft release for review. Rollouts can be staged with the Rollout workflow. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, checks and conventions, and SECURITY.md to report a vulnerability privately.

License

MIT © Regncreative