Windows 10 doesn't keep a recent file-list for Notepad

'Notepad has never had this feature.' you say? Well, 'Ignorance more often begets self-confidence than does knowledge', true, and you are talking through your hat.

How could I possibly miss something I never had? Are you the only one of the people who have so far been kind enough to offer tips and suggested possible solutions to be correctly informed?
At the moment, I have no machine running Windows 7 and so can not prove you wrong right here, but this link goes some way towards that end:

https://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/139211-recent-notepad-files-txt-not-displayed-any-more.html.
Karma, another misguided soul who remembers things that never were...here's another pertinent link referring to Windows 10:

Show history for notepad by right click - Microsoft Community
Now, do you have the gall to suggest that the people who posted in these forums as well as those who responded are wrong while you alone are right?

GOMF already, "guru".

Mooly said:

I use the recent and pinned options all the time. Couldn't do without it tbh.

I hear you Mooly and agree with the 'usability' of jump lists and especially the pinned items. The only (slight) drawback is that you have to do maintenance since they otherwise grow to be miles long.

It has to be a daily, somewhat tedious, routine of removing the files that are only temporarily useful but that you have no immediate plan to return to. Should you want to, the notes are always available via File/Open... A tedious and time consuming habit yes, but it can save you lots of frustration - even money and reputation - down the line.

Quite beside the value of neat, clean jump lists, Notepad is a very useful little app indeed. Case in point: before I start a telephone conversation with, let's say, my ISP's or cell phone providers' support, my health-care provider or whatever, I open a new Notepad document on which type a brief descriptive heading, the date and time.

During the call I then jot down the name of whoever it is I talk to and memory-notes. After the call I proofread and correct the text. This then is my log which is very handy should there be a dispute. Not conclusive evidence, true, but as James Comey observed during his recent dealings with you-know-who, better than nothing.

No need to get into the tiresome, unproductive he-said-she-said; you have a log which supports your case should the need arise. Also, it's difficult to remember verbatim what was agreed three weeks or two months after the fact.
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Another thing I would not want to be without is the excellent search application Everything by Voidtools. If the file you wonder about is anywhere on your system (and I have three external drives in addition to the C:\ drive; all partitioned almost to the full extent of the alphabet;) Everything finds it. It's kind of difficult to keep track of thousands of files on umpteen partitions - Everything to the rescue:



voidtools

'Sall

Anak said:

Here's win7's notepad recent list:


And win10's:

No comment needed, right? À propos of that 'guru': 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing' * because it is necessary for spreading lies and desinformation (I read on Facebook...) among those of us with no critical faculties.
They are legion, and propagate these 'alternative facts' (as U.S. Counselor to the Clown In Chief Kellyanne Conway expressed it) via the internet until they're well nigh impossible to root out, sometimes ruining careers and reputations**.
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* "A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again."Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) in 'An Essay on Criticism'.

** "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls.Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him,And makes me poor indeed."William Shakespeare, Othello Act 3, scene 3

cereberus said:

location

Notepad has never had this feature.

My apologies - I was referring to list from File Open, not Jump Lists.

Kokopelli said:

No comment needed, right? À propos of that 'guru': 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing' * because it is necessary for spreading lies and desinformation (I read on Facebook...) among those of us with no critical faculties.
They are legion, and propagate these 'alternative facts' (as U.S. Counselor to the Clown In Chief Kellyanne Conway expressed it) via the internet until they're well nigh impossible to root out, sometimes ruining careers and reputations**.
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* "A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again."Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) in 'An Essay on Criticism'.

** "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls.Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him,And makes me poor indeed."William Shakespeare, Othello Act 3, scene 3

What a pompous reply for a genuine error. I bet you drone on like that at parties.

Bye Bye.

There's no need to be rude on a simple mistake. Chill out.

@ Berton, see post #12. Pretty sure that's what the OP meant.