History Feature Improvements

[bodhimind]

I've been using the History feature to finally be able to pin and search through my dozens of open tabs (several books I reference time to time).
Further enhancements to this would be appreciated:
- Sort by actual last opened date: update the "date opened" for the file to when the tab was actually opened (not when the file was opened). This allows more recent tabs to show up at the top, the History effectively being much more like a Most Recently Used list!
- Make Time-groups not overlap. It makes it difficult to search because the current groups overlap when the Tiem-Group setting is enabled. For example, it would be more useful to have Today, Past Week (not including today), 1 Week Ago, 2 Weeks ago, 3 Weeks Ago, 1 Month Ago, 2 Months Ago, etc. with each group not including items from the other groups. Additionally, don't show pinned items in time groups
- Wrap title of each record in the History pane to 3 lines to better allow text to overflow, especially if the file path description is turned off.
- Multiple pinned categories: this would be huge because I currently have a dozen pinned items. Would love to be able to pin based on category/project.
- Separate dimension of tracking "currently open" status?
- Better keyboard navigations (tab and arrow keys and enter to open; searching)

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, bodhimind

Thank you for the suggestions. I cannot promise everything on this list but I have raised the ideas with the Dev team for consideration. Perhaps some of these items could be implemented in the future.

[Edit] The team has agreed to take some time and go through these items, as expected there is a good chance not everything will be possible, but we do now have a ticket for this:
RT#7328: FR: History pane improvements

While internal only, you can ask any member of our support team for an update on its progress in the future.

Kind regards,

[DanA]

I'm an architect just beginning with PDF-XChange coming from Bluebeam. Custom pinned history groups will be greatly desired. I had 25+ groups: most related to projects (milestone drawing issues), but also building code sorted by various jurisdictions, construction reference guides, software reference guides, etc.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, DanA

Thank you for the support, I have added your voice to the ticket in our system.

Kind regards,