The four heights
The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.
Execute — do the immediate task
+I need the file I was editing yesterday. Open the recent files list and open the most recently…
Execute — do the immediate task
+I need the file I was editing yesterday. Open the recent files list and open the most recently edited file named shoppingCart.test.js so I can resume working on the failing test.
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Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before I hunt for a file, make recent files more useful: surface recently opened files sorted by…
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before I hunt for a file, make recent files more useful: surface recently opened files sorted by last edited time and show the containing path, and let me pin the test files I’m actively debugging so they stay at the top of recent files until I unpin them.
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Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I had a test open yesterday that was failing, but recent files shows a long list and I can’t…
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I can’t find the test I was fixing yesterday
I had a test open yesterday that was failing, but recent files shows a long list and I can’t quickly find shoppingCart.test.js. The QA lead expects a fix today and I’m losing time. I don’t know if the file was opened from another workspace or renamed. Tell me how to filter recent files by name or path and how to find the file if it was opened in another window.
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Become — change the pattern
+Across projects I spend minutes reopening the same files because I rely on a short recent list that…
Become — change the pattern
+I keep losing track of where I last edited files
Across projects I spend minutes reopening the same files because I rely on a short recent list that gets crowded. I want a small change that saves that time—what habit or simple organizer can I adopt so the dozen files I’m actively working on are always one keystroke away?
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