Lets avoid the fact that this is by MS, it is still useful to look at.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/jump-lists
They distinguish between recently and frequently used too

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Seif Lotfy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Let me elaborate,
> One of the main ideas of jump-lists are not only actions and recently used
> stuff. But also frequently used. Recently used as it is now is not helpful.
> On a busy day I open several files (around 16) using gedit. Now I go to
> the gedit icon in the dash. The right-click displaying the last 7 items is
> not always helpful. Some of those items are things i would *not* open again
> or maybe i was just browsing through code. Such items are "noise" that
> populate the list taking slots that could be filled by
> more promising files". To know those I need to know which of the files I
> used today, I also used Yesterday (this is a feature missing in
> gtk.recentlyused since it overwrites the dates) or used more than once in
> the last N days (gtk.recentlyused has no concept of frequency)
> Assuming that anything i open "frequently" will appear under
> gtk.recentlyused is risky since the only order we have is chronological
> order. With Zeitgeist its easier to detect such noise, by knowing the
> count, which allows us make more use of the slots.
> 4 recently used + 4 most used (within the last week).
> Cheers
> Seif
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Seif Lotfy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What about frequent files?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Matthias Clasen <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Frederic Peters <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hello all,
>>> >>
>>> >> + Jumplists
>>> >>  https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/Jumplists
>>> >>  → didn't heard much opinion of it from designers
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Jumplists is predicated on choosing an engine like zeitgeist.  So
>>> there is a
>>> > bigger question on how to implement it and using what technology.  No
>>> > decision has been made on zeitgeist itself, and I don't believe Seif
>>> has
>>> > introduced Zeitgeist as a feature.
>>>
>>> I don't think jumplists require zeitgeist.
>>> Static jumplists work fine by just reading desktop files.
>>> 'Recent files' require, well, recent files.
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