Coming Soon

Your recent files, always at hand

A lightweight daemon that watches your filesystem and keeps your recently edited files one click away in Finder.

brew install recent-work Copy

Free 7-day trial. macOS 13+ required.

RecentWork
proposal-v3.md
→
~/Documents/work
2m ago
ViewController.swift
→
~/repos/myapp/Sources
8m ago
schema.sql
→
~/Projects/backend
23m ago
design-tokens.json
→
~/repos/ui-kit
1h ago
budget-2026.xlsx
→
~/Desktop
3h ago
Why RecentWork

Set it and forget it

Automatic

Runs silently in the background. Every file you edit appears in your RecentWork folder — no manual saving or tagging.

Lightweight

Uses macOS native FSEvents — near-zero CPU and memory. No Spotlight indexing, no database. Just symlinks.

Fully local

No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry. Everything stays on your Mac. Your files are your business.

How it works

Three commands, then done

1

Install & initialize

Download the DMG or install via Homebrew. Run recent-work init to pick which folders to watch.

2

Start the daemon

Run recent-work start. It registers as a launchd service and starts automatically on login.

3

Open Finder

Your ~/RecentWork folder fills up with symlinks to every file you edit. Pinned right in your Finder sidebar.

~ $ recent-work init
Watching: ~/Documents, ~/Desktop, ~/repos
Created ~/RecentWork and pinned to Finder sidebar.
~ $ recent-work start
Daemon started. Runs automatically on login.
~ $ recent-work status
Status: running
Tracking: 47 files across 3 directories
Uptime: 4 days
Platform support

Built for your OS

macOS

FSEvents + launchd

Available

Linux

inotify + systemd

Coming soon

Windows

ReadDirectoryChanges

Coming soon

Stop searching for files

Install RecentWork and let your recent edits come to you.

brew install recent-work Copy

Free 7-day trial. No account required.