An interesting way to re-think a desktop

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Let's borrow an idea from the real world: when you look at your desk, your most recent work is just there. Also, responsible people keep a log or journal of their work. So, let's build a journal for them automatically. For now this is the Recent Files infrastucture we have, but we can later extend it to be a real daily journal.
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