What it is
xochitl already has a lovely recent-documents drawer — it's just only bound to F8 / Ctrl+Tab on a Type Folio, which touch users never see. recentTab adds a Recent entry to the top of the library hamburger menu that opens that native drawer: thumbnails of your recently-opened documents, one tap to jump back in.
It's free. It adds no model code and no compiled binary — one short plaintext qmldiff patch that asks xochitl to open a window it already owns. If you've wondered whether the paid patches on this shelf are trustworthy, this is the same construction, small enough to read in a minute.
Works on both devices
The same file runs on the reMarkable Paper Pro and the Paper Pro Move — it's been in daily use on one of each.
How it changes your device
One .qmd file dropped into xovi's qt-resource-rebuilder directory and an
xovi-safe xochitl restart (exact command in the README). Every injected QML id
is namespaced (rt*) so it coexists with other patches. Uninstall = delete the
file, restart the same way.
Caveats
- Requires xovi + qt-resource-rebuilder on-device (free; links in the README).
- Built against firmware 3.26.0.68; on other firmware the patch simply doesn't apply.
- Independent product — not affiliated with or endorsed by reMarkable AS.