Recent diagrams is the first thing the Explorer shows you, and the view it opens on by default. It lists the diagrams you have opened or edited most recently, newest first, so the work you are in the middle of is always one click away.
What lands here
Every diagram you open or edit moves to the top of Recent, whichever folder it actually lives in. It is a view across your whole library, not a folder of its own, so a diagram appearing in Recent has not been moved or copied: it still belongs to its folder (or to Unsorted), and you will find it there too.
The sidebar shows a count next to Recent diagrams so you can see at a glance how much recent activity there is.
Working from Recent
- Open a diagram by clicking its row.
- Each row carries the same actions as anywhere else in the Explorer, including rename, move to a folder, and share.
- Offline diagrams appear here too, and their rows add Sync Diagram (or Take Offline on a cloud diagram) alongside those actions.
- Because Recent spans every folder, it is the quickest place to reopen something without remembering where you filed it.
Seeing where a diagram lives
Recent spans every folder, so each row shows the folder it belongs to beside its name. Click that folder name to jump straight there instead of opening the diagram, which is the quickest way to see what else you filed alongside it.
Diagrams you haven't filed anywhere show Unsorted. Team diagrams name the team, since that's where they live. Diagrams shared with you don't show one at all: they sit in the other person's library rather than yours.
Hiding a diagram from Recent
Some diagrams you open now and then but never want cluttering the list. Choose Hide from Recent in a diagram's menu and it stops appearing here, no matter how recently you opened or edited it. The same menu then reads Show in Recent, so it is easy to put back.
The diagram itself is untouched: it stays in its folder, in search, on its share links, and opens normally. Only this list changes, which is why there is no badge on it anywhere else, the menu item tells you the state where you would change it.
The choice is yours alone. Hiding a shared or team diagram from your Recent doesn't hide it from anyone else's. It travels with your account, so it applies on your other devices too, and works the same whether or not you're signed in.
Recent is owner-scoped like the rest of the Explorer: a guest sees the diagrams their own browser has opened, and signing in carries that history into your account.
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