Recent Document Tracker

Recent Document Tracker is a small, handy application specially designed to track recent documents and folders, then by using document type icons in the taskbar tray you can pop-up a menu of recent documents sorted by last access time.

Selecting a menu choice will launch the appropriate program on the file. You can also launch a dialog with the right mouse button to search for and identify files to filter and or pin to the menus. The searchable dialog is very fast and allows sorting the matches by usage count, modification time or access time.

Currently works with MS Word, Excel, Project, Powerpoint, Access, Publisher, Adobe Acrobat and general folders. To use it just run the program and icons for the above applications will appear in the system tray. The first time it is used may take a few seconds to scan and verify the recent document shortcuts.

Subsequent runs will be much faster. Left mouse button will pop-up a history of each type separated by those in the last day, week and month. Selecting one will launch the document/folder. Also a Search Dialog entry to bring up a filterable window to locate all recently used files. Right mouse button to adjust options such as hiding certain types (must restart), resetting database, setting limits to how many are shown and removing dead shortcuts when document no longer exists.