Pin what matters, let recents find themselves

Claim: five items do the daily work

Nobody opens a vault to admire all four hundred entries. On a normal day you touch the same handful: the login for work, the card for groceries, the transit pass, the ID you keep getting asked for. Everything else is archive that should stay out of the way.

Quick access splits that reality in two. Pins are the items you declare essential — they stay put until you unpin them. Recents are the trail you actually walked — maintained automatically, newest first, no curation required. One is intention, the other is evidence, and the vault shows both before you type a single search character.

Pins survive sync; recents survive restarts

Pins are part of your data. Pin the pharmacy login on your phone and it is pinned on your desktop after sync, because a pin is a fact about the item, replicated like any other fact — inside the same encrypted replica batches, readable only by your devices.

Recents are local behavior, rebuilt from use. They cost nothing to maintain and nothing to lose: clear them, ignore them, let them rotate. The vault never promotes a recent into a pin on your behalf. Attention is yours to assign.

What quick access refuses to become

It is not a frequency-sorted feed. It does not learn, predict, or personalize — there is no model, no telemetry, no "people who opened this also opened" anywhere in the building. The order of recents is chronological; the order of pins is yours. A vault that tried to be clever about what you need would need to watch you use it, and watching is the one feature NT² will not ship.