smartRecents for Nuke

smartRecents is a script selector for NUKE. Keep track of your latest work and open nuke scripts directly from the smartRecents window. Additionally you can drag and drop a nuke script into your nodegraph. smartRecents lets you also reveal your nuke scripts in your explorer.
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Description

Description

Don't waste any time searching nuke scripts manually in your explorer. All your recent work is immediately accessible. smartRecents offers a window to quickly access your latest nuke scripts. You can also drag and drop a nuke script into your nodegraph as well as revealing a script directly in your explorer. In the settings you can decide how many scripts you want to see in the smartRecents window and if you like to have the smartRecents window pop up whenever you launch NUKE or if you like to see it just when you need it.

Main features

• Script selector for NUKE
• Keep track of all your latest nukescripts
• Simply switch between nukescripts
• Drag and drop a nuke script from the smartRecents window into your nodegraph
• decide how many recent scripts to display
• recent scripts window can be set to automatically show up whenever you launch NUKE


A detailed tutorial video that shows how to install and use smartRecents can be found here:

In Depth Tutorial

Which kinds of licenses do you offer?

We offer node locked licenses and site licenses for single products as well as annual subscription licenses to use ALL cragl products with one license. All products work online and offline.

license models

Additional

For additional info about smartRecents please refer to https://www.cragl.com/smartRecents

Discussions

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Head over to r/aescripts to chat with fellow users about this product.

Need Support?

Please open a support ticket to be connected directly with the author of this product

Version History

2.18 -

Sep 9, 2025

• Fix get versions when path contains version like info in path

2.17 -

Jul 22, 2025

• Close smartRecents main window before showing Open-Append dialog

• Configure to sort files by last modified and name

• Fix double-clicking header raises error

2.16 -

Jan 12, 2025

• Right click menu - Add copy file path action

• Show file size, Nuke version and Nuke variant

• Configure to show window under cursor or centered to screen

2.15 -

Aug 25, 2024

• Update to nuke-16

2.14 -

Jul 11, 2024

• Fix - Create default auto_thumbnail settings

2.13 -

Jun 2, 2024

• Color code working files

• Auto capture thumbnail

• Double click item to launch working file

2.12 -

Jul 29, 2023

• Update to nuke-15

2.11 -

May 20, 2023

• Configure to be always on top

• Fix - Reveal in explorer on Windows launches documents folder

2.10 -

May 19, 2023

• Implement table history view, incl. thumbnails and comments

• Add right click menu for items

• Append working file as group

• Take screenshot for thumbnail

2.9 -

Feb 26, 2023

• Add studio model, various style changes

• Show only working files that exist on disk

• Add browsing docs, changelog and support actions to help button

2.8 -

Dec 18, 2022

• Update to nuke-14

2.7 -

Jan 17, 2021

• Fix dropping license into license window raises UnicodeDecodeError

2.6 -

Jan 15, 2021

• Fix reading trial license data fails decrypting

• Send email to license author when machine installs license

2.5 -

Dec 30, 2020

• Make Nuke-13 ready

2.4 -

Aug 4, 2020

• Allow install if mac id is already in DB and licence quantity is 0

• Speed up launching in offline mode

2.3 -

May 10, 2019

• Open/ append working file via drag and drop from main window into DAG

• Create sphinx documentation

2.2 -

May 8, 2019

• Open up for site licenses

• Generate license by license file, login and install code

• Update internal package structure

2.1 -

Apr 13, 2019

• Add search input to search for working files

• Remember window size

2.0 -

Jul 16, 2017

• Made Nuke11 ready

• Major code updates and code improvements

1.0 -

Feb 11, 2016

initial release

Compatibility

Nuke/NukeX

14.0, 13.2, 13.1, 13.0, 12.2, 12.1, 12.0, 11.3, 11.2, 11.1, 11.0, 10.0, 9.0, 8.0