MacOS has a "Recents" choice in Finder's sidebar for this. Seems like it would be very useful in Opus.
Seems like we'd want to be able to limit it to n files (unless it's fast and so who cares) and provide a user-defined list of directories and maybe even a sub-filter for filename patterns (mostly to specify file extensions).
Maybe somebody has already solved this with some kind of specialized collection?
Tools > Find Files can find things in one or more folders based on modified time. You can also use the Find command to automate things if you want a button which triggers the same search with one click.
A Stored Query could work as well, especially if you want to use features of the Windows Search system.
https://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus12/index.html#!Documents/Stored_Queries.htm
Thank you, Leo.
I wonder if GPSoft is interested in offering Opus users a feature that's equivalent to macOS Finder's "Recent" filter?
I don't know how handy that would be to people besides myself, but I do use Finder's "Recent" feature a lot on my Mac.
99.999% of the time I'd prefer to use Opus over the macOS Finder. But this is one place where Finder offers something unique and useful to me which Opus doesn't offer.
What would it do exactly?
Would it do something you can't do already using Tools > Find Files, or would it be something you can already do, but made easier?
Keep in mind I have never used Finder.
Is this similar to Windows' /recent folder?
Leo, I will dig into Tools > Find Files and see.
I'd like something that automatically stays up to date so when I open it, I don't have to wait for it to perform a search on its targets to give me the list of recently modified files.
Finder's "Recent" feature may only be for local files — I don't know because I don't use my Mac with network shares.
@lxp, I didn't know about Windows's "Recent" feature. I looked into it and found this article:
In practice, this feature doesn't seem to do what I'm looking for (Windows 10). When I go to "Run" and enter "shell:recent", the page it brings up just contains a list of Windows shortcuts with recent modification dates 1-10 June 2020, where today is 11 June 2020). Weird. Just shortcuts.
That's how Windows keeps its recent list, by creating shortcuts to recent files.
Oh. Eek. Thank you, Jon.