diff --git a/app/actions/definitions/documents.tsx b/app/actions/definitions/documents.tsx
index a6a1a0732e..748180a880 100644
--- a/app/actions/definitions/documents.tsx
+++ b/app/actions/definitions/documents.tsx
@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@ import {
 } from "outline-icons";
 import * as React from "react";
 import { toast } from "sonner";
-import { ExportContentType, TeamPreference } from "@shared/types";
+import {
+  ExportContentType,
+  TeamPreference,
+  NavigationNode,
+} from "@shared/types";
 import { getEventFiles } from "@shared/utils/files";
 import DocumentDelete from "~/scenes/DocumentDelete";
 import DocumentMove from "~/scenes/DocumentMove";
@@ -39,6 +43,7 @@ import DocumentPublish from "~/scenes/DocumentPublish";
 import DeleteDocumentsInTrash from "~/scenes/Trash/components/DeleteDocumentsInTrash";
 import ConfirmationDialog from "~/components/ConfirmationDialog";
 import DuplicateDialog from "~/components/DuplicateDialog";
+import Icon from "~/components/Icon";
 import SharePopover from "~/components/Sharing/Document";
 import { getHeaderExpandedKey } from "~/components/Sidebar/components/Header";
 import DocumentTemplatizeDialog from "~/components/TemplatizeDialog";
@@ -67,23 +72,24 @@ export const openDocument = createAction({
   keywords: "go to",
   icon: <DocumentIcon />,
   children: ({ stores }) => {
-    const paths = stores.collections.pathsToDocuments;
+    const nodes = stores.collections.navigationNodes.reduce(
+      (acc, node) => [...acc, ...node.children],
+      [] as NavigationNode[]
+    );
 
-    return paths
-      .filter((path) => path.type === "document")
-      .map((path) => ({
-        // Note: using url which includes the slug rather than id here to bust
-        // cache if the document is renamed
-        id: path.url,
-        name: path.title,
-        icon: function _Icon() {
-          return stores.documents.get(path.id)?.isStarred ? (
-            <StarredIcon />
-          ) : null;
-        },
-        section: DocumentSection,
-        perform: () => history.push(path.url),
-      }));
+    return nodes.map((item) => ({
+      // Note: using url which includes the slug rather than id here to bust
+      // cache if the document is renamed
+      id: item.url,
+      name: item.title,
+      icon: item.icon ? (
+        <Icon value={item.icon} color={item.color ?? undefined} />
+      ) : (
+        <DocumentIcon />
+      ),
+      section: DocumentSection,
+      perform: () => history.push(item.url),
+    }));
   },
 });
 
@@ -722,14 +728,14 @@ export const openRandomDocument = createAction({
   section: DocumentSection,
   icon: <ShuffleIcon />,
   perform: ({ stores, activeDocumentId }) => {
-    const documentPaths = stores.collections.pathsToDocuments.filter(
-      (path) => path.type === "document" && path.id !== activeDocumentId
-    );
-    const randomPath =
-      documentPaths[Math.round(Math.random() * documentPaths.length)];
+    const nodes = stores.collections.navigationNodes
+      .reduce((acc, node) => [...acc, ...node.children], [] as NavigationNode[])
+      .filter((node) => node.id !== activeDocumentId);
 
-    if (randomPath) {
-      history.push(randomPath.url);
+    const random = nodes[Math.round(Math.random() * nodes.length)];
+
+    if (random) {
+      history.push(random.url);
     }
   },
 });
diff --git a/app/actions/index.ts b/app/actions/index.ts
index 7ad340b005..3bf3cac9bf 100644
--- a/app/actions/index.ts
+++ b/app/actions/index.ts
@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ export function actionToKBar(
       )
     : [];
 
+  const sectionPriority =
+    typeof action.section !== "string" && "priority" in action.section
+      ? (action.section.priority as number) ?? 0
+      : 0;
+
   return [
     {
       id: action.id,
@@ -108,6 +113,7 @@ export function actionToKBar(
       keywords: action.keywords ?? "",
       shortcut: action.shortcut || [],
       icon: resolvedIcon,
+      priority: (action.priority ?? 0) * (1 + (sectionPriority ?? 0) * 0.5),
       perform: action.perform
         ? () => performAction(action, context)
         : undefined,
diff --git a/app/actions/sections.ts b/app/actions/sections.ts
index 0224757c66..16424b67ac 100644
--- a/app/actions/sections.ts
+++ b/app/actions/sections.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ export const DeveloperSection = ({ t }: ActionContext) => t("Debug");
 
 export const DocumentSection = ({ t }: ActionContext) => t("Document");
 
+export const RecentSection = ({ t }: ActionContext) => t("Recently viewed");
+
+RecentSection.priority = 1;
+
 export const RevisionSection = ({ t }: ActionContext) => t("Revision");
 
 export const SettingsSection = ({ t }: ActionContext) => t("Settings");
@@ -21,4 +25,6 @@ export const TeamSection = ({ t }: ActionContext) => t("Workspace");
 export const RecentSearchesSection = ({ t }: ActionContext) =>
   t("Recent searches");
 
+RecentSearchesSection.priority = 0.9;
+
 export const TrashSection = ({ t }: ActionContext) => t("Trash");
diff --git a/app/components/CommandBar.tsx b/app/components/CommandBar/CommandBar.tsx
similarity index 78%
rename from app/components/CommandBar.tsx
rename to app/components/CommandBar/CommandBar.tsx
index 236f38f2f9..4f8a38136f 100644
--- a/app/components/CommandBar.tsx
+++ b/app/components/CommandBar/CommandBar.tsx
@@ -6,20 +6,27 @@ import { Portal } from "react-portal";
 import styled from "styled-components";
 import breakpoint from "styled-components-breakpoint";
 import { depths, s } from "@shared/styles";
-import CommandBarResults from "~/components/CommandBarResults";
 import SearchActions from "~/components/SearchActions";
 import rootActions from "~/actions/root";
 import useCommandBarActions from "~/hooks/useCommandBarActions";
-import useSettingsActions from "~/hooks/useSettingsActions";
-import useTemplateActions from "~/hooks/useTemplateActions";
+import CommandBarResults from "./CommandBarResults";
+import useRecentDocumentActions from "./useRecentDocumentActions";
+import useSettingsAction from "./useSettingsAction";
+import useTemplatesAction from "./useTemplatesAction";
 
 function CommandBar() {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
-  const settingsActions = useSettingsActions();
-  const templateActions = useTemplateActions();
+  const recentDocumentActions = useRecentDocumentActions();
+  const settingsAction = useSettingsAction();
+  const templatesAction = useTemplatesAction();
   const commandBarActions = React.useMemo(
-    () => [...rootActions, templateActions, settingsActions],
-    [settingsActions, templateActions]
+    () => [
+      ...recentDocumentActions,
+      ...rootActions,
+      templatesAction,
+      settingsAction,
+    ],
+    [recentDocumentActions, settingsAction, templatesAction]
   );
 
   useCommandBarActions(commandBarActions);
diff --git a/app/components/CommandBarItem.tsx b/app/components/CommandBar/CommandBarItem.tsx
similarity index 98%
rename from app/components/CommandBarItem.tsx
rename to app/components/CommandBar/CommandBarItem.tsx
index 4762012a41..6f34115c54 100644
--- a/app/components/CommandBarItem.tsx
+++ b/app/components/CommandBar/CommandBarItem.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import styled, { css, useTheme } from "styled-components";
 import { s, ellipsis } from "@shared/styles";
 import Flex from "~/components/Flex";
 import Key from "~/components/Key";
-import Text from "./Text";
+import Text from "~/components/Text";
 
 type Props = {
   action: ActionImpl;
diff --git a/app/components/CommandBarResults.tsx b/app/components/CommandBar/CommandBarResults.tsx
similarity index 94%
rename from app/components/CommandBarResults.tsx
rename to app/components/CommandBar/CommandBarResults.tsx
index c69e53d94c..16e726a3e3 100644
--- a/app/components/CommandBarResults.tsx
+++ b/app/components/CommandBar/CommandBarResults.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { useMatches, KBarResults } from "kbar";
 import * as React from "react";
 import styled from "styled-components";
 import { s } from "@shared/styles";
-import CommandBarItem from "~/components/CommandBarItem";
+import CommandBarItem from "./CommandBarItem";
 
 export default function CommandBarResults() {
   const { results, rootActionId } = useMatches();
diff --git a/app/components/CommandBar/index.ts b/app/components/CommandBar/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..631b96b1b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/components/CommandBar/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+import CommandBar from "./CommandBar";
+
+export default CommandBar;
diff --git a/app/components/CommandBar/useRecentDocumentActions.tsx b/app/components/CommandBar/useRecentDocumentActions.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7a84f63720
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/components/CommandBar/useRecentDocumentActions.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { DocumentIcon } from "outline-icons";
+import * as React from "react";
+import Icon from "~/components/Icon";
+import { createAction } from "~/actions";
+import { RecentSection } from "~/actions/sections";
+import useStores from "~/hooks/useStores";
+import history from "~/utils/history";
+import { documentPath } from "~/utils/routeHelpers";
+
+const useRecentDocumentActions = (count = 6) => {
+  const { documents, ui } = useStores();
+
+  return React.useMemo(
+    () =>
+      documents.recentlyViewed
+        .filter((document) => document.id !== ui.activeDocumentId)
+        .slice(0, count)
+        .map((item) =>
+          createAction({
+            name: item.titleWithDefault,
+            analyticsName: "Recently viewed document",
+            section: RecentSection,
+            icon: item.icon ? (
+              <Icon value={item.icon} color={item.color ?? undefined} />
+            ) : (
+              <DocumentIcon />
+            ),
+            perform: () => history.push(documentPath(item)),
+          })
+        ),
+    [count, ui.activeDocumentId, documents.recentlyViewed]
+  );
+};
+
+export default useRecentDocumentActions;
diff --git a/app/hooks/useSettingsActions.tsx b/app/components/CommandBar/useSettingsAction.tsx
similarity index 87%
rename from app/hooks/useSettingsActions.tsx
rename to app/components/CommandBar/useSettingsAction.tsx
index 2cd7773380..1902daf44b 100644
--- a/app/hooks/useSettingsActions.tsx
+++ b/app/components/CommandBar/useSettingsAction.tsx
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ import { SettingsIcon } from "outline-icons";
 import * as React from "react";
 import { createAction } from "~/actions";
 import { NavigationSection } from "~/actions/sections";
+import useSettingsConfig from "~/hooks/useSettingsConfig";
 import history from "~/utils/history";
-import useSettingsConfig from "./useSettingsConfig";
 
-const useSettingsActions = () => {
+const useSettingsAction = () => {
   const config = useSettingsConfig();
   const actions = React.useMemo(
     () =>
@@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ const useSettingsActions = () => {
   return navigateToSettings;
 };
 
-export default useSettingsActions;
+export default useSettingsAction;
diff --git a/app/hooks/useTemplateActions.tsx b/app/components/CommandBar/useTemplatesAction.tsx
similarity index 93%
rename from app/hooks/useTemplateActions.tsx
rename to app/components/CommandBar/useTemplatesAction.tsx
index 2bad996d83..32296531db 100644
--- a/app/hooks/useTemplateActions.tsx
+++ b/app/components/CommandBar/useTemplatesAction.tsx
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ import * as React from "react";
 import Icon from "~/components/Icon";
 import { createAction } from "~/actions";
 import { DocumentSection } from "~/actions/sections";
+import useStores from "~/hooks/useStores";
 import history from "~/utils/history";
 import { newDocumentPath } from "~/utils/routeHelpers";
-import useStores from "./useStores";
 
-const useTemplatesActions = () => {
+const useTemplatesAction = () => {
   const { documents } = useStores();
 
   React.useEffect(() => {
@@ -60,4 +60,4 @@ const useTemplatesActions = () => {
   return newFromTemplate;
 };
 
-export default useTemplatesActions;
+export default useTemplatesAction;
diff --git a/app/components/DefaultCollectionInputSelect.tsx b/app/components/DefaultCollectionInputSelect.tsx
index a20c044b32..9dd7af5b37 100644
--- a/app/components/DefaultCollectionInputSelect.tsx
+++ b/app/components/DefaultCollectionInputSelect.tsx
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ const DefaultCollectionInputSelect = ({
 
   const options = React.useMemo(
     () =>
-      collections.publicCollections.reduce(
+      collections.nonPrivate.reduce(
         (acc, collection) => [
           ...acc,
           {
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ const DefaultCollectionInputSelect = ({
           },
         ]
       ),
-    [collections.publicCollections, t]
+    [collections.nonPrivate, t]
   );
 
   if (fetching) {
diff --git a/app/components/SearchActions.ts b/app/components/SearchActions.ts
index 81f1f8dd9a..9501e7b30f 100644
--- a/app/components/SearchActions.ts
+++ b/app/components/SearchActions.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ export default function SearchActions() {
   const { searches } = useStores();
 
   React.useEffect(() => {
-    if (!searches.isLoaded) {
+    if (!searches.isLoaded && !searches.isFetching) {
       void searches.fetchPage({
         source: "app",
       });
diff --git a/app/models/Collection.ts b/app/models/Collection.ts
index 9a87cc2039..c469fcca2e 100644
--- a/app/models/Collection.ts
+++ b/app/models/Collection.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ import { action, computed, observable, runInAction } from "mobx";
 import {
   CollectionPermission,
   FileOperationFormat,
-  NavigationNode,
+  type NavigationNode,
+  NavigationNodeType,
   type ProsemirrorData,
 } from "@shared/types";
 import { ProsemirrorHelper } from "@shared/utils/ProsemirrorHelper";
@@ -256,6 +257,19 @@ export default class Collection extends ParanoidModel {
     return result;
   }
 
+  @computed
+  get asNavigationNode(): NavigationNode {
+    return {
+      type: NavigationNodeType.Collection,
+      id: this.id,
+      title: this.name,
+      color: this.color ?? undefined,
+      icon: this.icon ?? undefined,
+      children: this.documents ?? [],
+      url: this.url,
+    };
+  }
+
   pathToDocument(documentId: string) {
     let path: NavigationNode[] | undefined = [];
     const document = this.store.rootStore.documents.get(documentId);
diff --git a/app/models/Document.ts b/app/models/Document.ts
index 05ecbbf89e..6e2b2d3323 100644
--- a/app/models/Document.ts
+++ b/app/models/Document.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import type {
 import {
   ExportContentType,
   FileOperationFormat,
+  NavigationNodeType,
   NotificationEventType,
 } from "@shared/types";
 import Storage from "@shared/utils/Storage";
@@ -619,6 +620,7 @@ export default class Document extends ParanoidModel {
   @computed
   get asNavigationNode(): NavigationNode {
     return {
+      type: NavigationNodeType.Document,
       id: this.id,
       title: this.title,
       color: this.color ?? undefined,
diff --git a/app/stores/CollectionsStore.ts b/app/stores/CollectionsStore.ts
index 8ccf4dc80a..e077d60812 100644
--- a/app/stores/CollectionsStore.ts
+++ b/app/stores/CollectionsStore.ts
@@ -1,38 +1,15 @@
 import invariant from "invariant";
-import concat from "lodash/concat";
 import find from "lodash/find";
 import isEmpty from "lodash/isEmpty";
-import last from "lodash/last";
 import sortBy from "lodash/sortBy";
 import { computed, action } from "mobx";
-import {
-  CollectionPermission,
-  FileOperationFormat,
-  NavigationNode,
-} from "@shared/types";
+import { CollectionPermission, FileOperationFormat } from "@shared/types";
 import Collection from "~/models/Collection";
 import { Properties } from "~/types";
 import { client } from "~/utils/ApiClient";
 import RootStore from "./RootStore";
 import Store from "./base/Store";
 
-enum DocumentPathItemType {
-  Collection = "collection",
-  Document = "document",
-}
-
-export type DocumentPathItem = {
-  type: DocumentPathItemType;
-  id: string;
-  collectionId: string;
-  title: string;
-  url: string;
-};
-
-export type DocumentPath = DocumentPathItem & {
-  path: DocumentPathItem[];
-};
-
 export default class CollectionsStore extends Store<Collection> {
   constructor(rootStore: RootStore) {
     super(rootStore, Collection);
@@ -95,55 +72,6 @@ export default class CollectionsStore extends Store<Collection> {
     );
   }
 
-  /**
-   * List of paths to each of the documents, where paths are composed of id and title/name pairs
-   */
-  @computed
-  get pathsToDocuments(): DocumentPath[] {
-    const results: DocumentPathItem[][] = [];
-
-    const travelDocuments = (
-      documentList: NavigationNode[],
-      collectionId: string,
-      path: DocumentPathItem[]
-    ) =>
-      documentList.forEach((document: NavigationNode) => {
-        const { id, title, url } = document;
-        const node = {
-          type: DocumentPathItemType.Document,
-          id,
-          collectionId,
-          title,
-          url,
-        };
-        results.push(concat(path, node));
-        travelDocuments(document.children, collectionId, concat(path, [node]));
-      });
-
-    if (this.isLoaded) {
-      this.data.forEach((collection) => {
-        const { id, name, path } = collection;
-        const node = {
-          type: DocumentPathItemType.Collection,
-          id,
-          collectionId: id,
-          title: name,
-          url: path,
-        };
-        results.push([node]);
-
-        if (collection.documents) {
-          travelDocuments(collection.documents, id, [node]);
-        }
-      });
-    }
-
-    return results.map((result) => {
-      const tail = last(result) as DocumentPathItem;
-      return { ...tail, path: result };
-    });
-  }
-
   @action
   import = async (
     attachmentId: string,
@@ -191,15 +119,6 @@ export default class CollectionsStore extends Store<Collection> {
     return model;
   }
 
-  @computed
-  get publicCollections() {
-    return this.orderedData.filter(
-      (collection) =>
-        collection.permission &&
-        Object.values(CollectionPermission).includes(collection.permission)
-    );
-  }
-
   star = async (collection: Collection, index?: string) => {
     await this.rootStore.stars.create({
       collectionId: collection.id,
@@ -209,24 +128,14 @@ export default class CollectionsStore extends Store<Collection> {
 
   unstar = async (collection: Collection) => {
     const star = this.rootStore.stars.orderedData.find(
-      (star) => star.collectionId === collection.id
+      (s) => s.collectionId === collection.id
     );
     await star?.delete();
   };
 
-  getPathForDocument(documentId: string): DocumentPath | undefined {
-    return this.pathsToDocuments.find((path) => path.id === documentId);
-  }
-
-  titleForDocument(documentPath: string): string | undefined {
-    const path = this.pathsToDocuments.find(
-      (path) => path.url === documentPath
-    );
-    if (path) {
-      return path.title;
-    }
-
-    return;
+  @computed
+  get navigationNodes() {
+    return this.orderedData.map((collection) => collection.asNavigationNode);
   }
 
   getByUrl(url: string): Collection | null | undefined {
diff --git a/app/types.ts b/app/types.ts
index 216bdcce5b..55f250bd7d 100644
--- a/app/types.ts
+++ b/app/types.ts
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ export type Action = {
   shortcut?: string[];
   keywords?: string;
   dangerous?: boolean;
+  /** Higher number is higher in results, default is 0. */
+  priority?: number;
   iconInContextMenu?: boolean;
   icon?: React.ReactElement | React.FC;
   placeholder?: ((context: ActionContext) => string) | string;
@@ -140,15 +142,6 @@ export type FetchOptions = {
   force?: boolean;
 };
 
-export type NavigationNode = {
-  id: string;
-  title: string;
-  emoji?: string | null;
-  url: string;
-  children: NavigationNode[];
-  isDraft?: boolean;
-};
-
 export type CollectionSort = {
   field: string;
   direction: "asc" | "desc";
diff --git a/shared/i18n/locales/en_US/translation.json b/shared/i18n/locales/en_US/translation.json
index 52927fbed7..179cc2ce82 100644
--- a/shared/i18n/locales/en_US/translation.json
+++ b/shared/i18n/locales/en_US/translation.json
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@
   "Collection": "Collection",
   "Debug": "Debug",
   "Document": "Document",
+  "Recently viewed": "Recently viewed",
   "Revision": "Revision",
   "Navigation": "Navigation",
   "Notification": "Notification",
@@ -157,6 +158,7 @@
   "Collapse": "Collapse",
   "Expand": "Expand",
   "Type a command or search": "Type a command or search",
+  "Choose a template": "Choose a template",
   "Are you sure you want to permanently delete this entire comment thread?": "Are you sure you want to permanently delete this entire comment thread?",
   "Are you sure you want to permanently delete this comment?": "Are you sure you want to permanently delete this comment?",
   "Confirm": "Confirm",
@@ -474,7 +476,6 @@
   "Import": "Import",
   "Self Hosted": "Self Hosted",
   "Integrations": "Integrations",
-  "Choose a template": "Choose a template",
   "Revoke token": "Revoke token",
   "Revoke": "Revoke",
   "Show path to document": "Show path to document",
@@ -681,7 +682,6 @@
   "Groups are for organizing your team. They work best when centered around a function or a responsibility — Support or Engineering for example.": "Groups are for organizing your team. They work best when centered around a function or a responsibility — Support or Engineering for example.",
   "You’ll be able to add people to the group next.": "You’ll be able to add people to the group next.",
   "Continue": "Continue",
-  "Recently viewed": "Recently viewed",
   "Created by me": "Created by me",
   "Weird, this shouldn’t ever be empty": "Weird, this shouldn’t ever be empty",
   "You haven’t created any documents yet": "You haven’t created any documents yet",