✅ Request for enhancement to LibreOffice: I frequently work on several documents that I edit repeatedly. However, over time, these documents are often pushed out of the "Recent Documents" list as I work on other files instead, and I end up pulling my hair! 🤯 💡 Since these documents commonly appear in the recovery list after a shutdown, one way to prevent their disappearance from the "Recent Documents" list would be to introduce a new "Recently Recovered Documents" list. This list could remember the last 30 or so recovered documents, ensuring that my most frequently used documents are always just a click away, saving time and improving efficiency. 👍 Thanks in advance! 🙏
Internal to the LibreOffice UI we already provide ability to "pin" a recent document to the MRU history (default of last 25 documents as held in user profile), see bug 155699. On the StartCenter the thumbnail views of the MRU history offer the option to pin a document. Once pin'd the document will show at the top of the thumbnails, or at the top of the MRU (File -> Recent Documents). Not clear what OP meant by "Recently Recovered Documents" list, but there is nothing like that in LibreOffice. If more that the current "pin" handling within the LibreOffice UI is desired, please fully describe the use case and workflow it might support.
OP meant by "Recently Recovered Documents" that LibreOffice would keep a history of documents recovered using "Document Recovery" function and those could be reopened from such shortlist. ("Document Recovery" function revisited here https://www.diskpart.com/data-recovery/recover-lost-files-libreoffice-3690.html) I was not aware of the "Pin a recent document" functionality since I rarely visit the thumbnail gallery but instead open directly into a document. Thanks for the tip, I will be using this in the mean time. The difference between "Pin a recent document" vs. a new "Recently Recovered Documents" is that the latter would update automatically, in this day and age.
You are risking your documents and data-loss if you simply close LibreOffice and expect the document recovery to restore active documents to a new LO session! Document recovery is just that, recovery when LO crashes or is closed in error by a user. Its abusive to do otherwise. Please don't. Rather, cleanly close an edit session, saving the document. It will be added to your document history (held in your user profile), and visible on the main menu's File -> "Recent Documents" listing. Pin those documents you routinely reopen. And, expand the list of MRU beyond default 25 if you need. Tools -> Options -> Advanced "Expert configuration" and search for 'PickListSize' Otherwise, no justification to try to tweak the document recovery process to do something it is not intended for. IMHO => WF
Recovery being last resort is obvious and besides the point. But the fact is, that the documents I work with the most, end up with an operating system crash eventually, so this is why I associate that list with "favorites". My 2 cents.