Show Recent Files list in the Get Started window (Q Mac)

MontanaKarl

If you have more than one Quicken Mac data file (e.g., managing another family member's finances), you can go to File > Open Recent to find the other file(s) and switch to it.

But, if you click Cancel on the password screen when Quicken Mac launches - so that you can avoid opening that file and instead open a different one - you are presented with the "Let's get started" screen - which is normally presented to new users, or via File > New.

It would be useful to have the empty white space on the right side of that window show a list of recently used files so that you can quickly select the file that you want to open.

From a UX perspective, some users might think that they have to select an option in this screen to continue, rather than either (a) just closing it or (b) ignoring it.

Maybe change it to something like this:

jacobs

I think what gets missed on that screen is that there's the "Open Quicken File" button at the bottom. It's a white button in a gray bar, so it's easy to (a) overlook, (b) think it's not an active button, or (c) not understand when to click it instead of the list of options above. So I think the better solution would be to get rid of the button and to add it to the list of Let's Get Started options: "Open an existing Quicken Mac subscription file". This would make it clearer than the current UI that this is an alternative to the other options of starting from scratch or importing from other/older versions of Quicken. 

MontanaKarl

Good point. Maybe I'm weird, but I never had any confusion about the Open button there.  But, clicking it to browse for recent files (which in my case are in various folders) is more tedious than just having a recent file list, like a variety of other software offers in a similar situation.