Quite often a non-java module is needed in the project- a module that would contain just a bunch of files (text files, html, xml..) As a workaround, I either create a java module and fill "output path" with something like c:\temp, which is quite weird, or attach the path contating the files I want to see and edit in Idea as "content root" to some other module, which is also not exacty what is wanted. Could Idea have such a module? It's hard to come up with the name, perhaps "Content module"? It should not have jdks, libraries, source paths, just a bunch of "roots" That would come in very handy!