TeamDocs

TeamDocs keeps your team's centralized documentation one click away in the Activity Bar — no matter which project you're working on.

Point it at any folder of Markdown files (e.g. a checked-out docs repo) and TeamDocs gives you a dedicated explorer and a quick-pick search, so you never have to leave your current project to look something up.

Features

1. Browse your docs from the Activity Bar

A dedicated Team Docs icon is added to the Activity Bar. Click it to see the full folder tree of your documentation, regardless of which project is open in VS Code.

• The view title is automatically set to the name of your docs folder.
• Folders are listed before files, and entries are sorted alphabetically.
• Files and folders matching VS Code's files.exclude setting are hidden automatically (e.g. .git, node_modules).

2. Open Markdown as a rendered preview

Clicking any Markdown file in the explorer opens the rendered Markdown preview directly — not the raw source. Non-Markdown files (images, PDFs, code, etc.) open with their default editor.

Supported Markdown extensions: .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkdn, .mkd, .mdwn, .mdtxt, .mdtext, .text.

3. Quick search across all docs

Run Team Docs: Search from the command palette (or click the search icon at the top of the Team Docs view) to fuzzy-find any file in your docs folder without leaving your current project.

1. Run the command Team Docs: Search — or click the 🔍 button in the Team Docs view header.

2. Type to filter files by name or path.

3. Hit Enter — Markdown files open as a rendered preview, everything else opens normally.

4. Works across every project

TeamDocs reads from a single, globally configured docs folder — so the same documentation is available in every workspace you open. There's no per-project setup.

Commands

Command	Description
Team Docs: Search	Fuzzy-find and open a file from your docs folder.
Team Docs: Open Settings	Jump straight to the TeamDocs configuration.

Extension Settings

Setting	Description
teamdocs.path_to_docs_folder	Absolute path to the folder containing your team's documentation. Supports ~ and ${HOME} expansion. Example: ~/Docs/engineering.

If this setting is empty, TeamDocs will prompt you to configure it the first time you open the view.

TeamDocs also honors your VS Code files.exclude setting to filter what shows up in both the explorer and the search results.

Getting started

1. Install TeamDocs from the Marketplace.
2. Clone or point to a folder containing your team's Markdown documentation.
3. Open VS Code settings and set teamdocs.path_to_docs_folder to that folder (e.g. ~/Docs/engineering).
4. Click the Team Docs icon in the Activity Bar — your docs are now available in every project.

Check out my other extensions

TeamDocs is one of a few VS Code extensions I build and maintain. You can find the full list — along with the projects and articles I'm working on — at lucasprag.com.

Thank you