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I have been studying how to maintain recent files and am confused by
the available functionality.

recentf keeps recent files but not directories
file cache is not persistent -- so not clear what its use is.

So what is the recommended way of maintaining a readily available list
of files and dirs?

I guess there is filesets but I find that very hard to understand :-)