The Windows Concept Journey — “Jump List”
A “Jump List” is a list of system-provided menus which is shown when the user performs a right-click on an application in the taskbar/start menu. By using jump lists we can access quickly frequent/recently used files (like documents, images and videos) or links in case of browsers (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/microsoft/windows-universal-samples/jumplist/) — as shown in the screenshot below (https://www.howto-connect.com/show-jump-lists-on-start-and-taskbar-in-windows-10/).
Overall, “Jump Lists” are available on the “Start Menu” or using the “Taskbar” while right clicking on an icon of an application (https://www.eiu.edu/busofc/support/pdf/JumpLists.pdf). We can enable/disable “Jump Lists” using “Settings->Personalization->Start->Show recently opened items in Jump List on Start or taskbar”.
Lastly, we can also customize “Jump List” by leveraging the “JumpList Class” (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.ui.startscreen.jumplist?view=winrt-26100&redirectedfrom=MSDN). Example of such customizations are: adding tasks to the jump list, creating group of items and more (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/microsoft/windows-universal-samples/jumplist/).
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