Revit shows your recent files. Make it forget them.
Forgetti clears the recent-file list in Revit. Tick the versions, press Forget, done.
A copy of each Revit.ini is saved before anything changes, and Undo puts it back.
Grab Forgetti.exe from the latest release
and run it. There is nothing to install and nothing left behind: it is one file, it needs only
.NET Framework 4.8 (already on every Windows 10 and 11 machine), and it never asks for admin.
The file is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may ask once. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
Revit's Home page and File menu list every model you have opened recently. Before a demo, a screen-share, a class or a hand-over, that list is either noise or a leak, and Revit offers no way to clear it. Forgetti does, for every version on the machine at once.
Forgetti is the free, open-source successor to the Recent File Reseterer for Revit from Parallax Team. The original is still available and still works just fine; Forgetti adds every version at once, a backup and undo, and a fresh coat of paint.
- Close Revit. It writes the list back when it exits, so anything forgotten while it is open would come straight back. Forgetti notices Revit running and waits.
- Run Forgetti. Every Revit version with a settings file is listed, newest first, with how many recent files it holds.
- Untick anything you want to keep, then press Forget.
Changed your mind? Undo restores every list from the copies Forgetti took.
Exactly one thing: the File1=, File2=, ... entries under [Recent File List] in
%AppData%\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit 20xx\Revit.ini
The section header stays. Every other section is untouched. The file keeps its original
encoding (Revit writes UTF-16 LE with a byte-order mark) and its line endings. Before writing,
the original is copied to Revit.ini.forgetti-bak in the same folder, and that copy is what
Undo restores.
Nothing is read from or written to the registry, the cloud, or anywhere outside that folder.
You need the .NET SDK and the .NET Framework 4.8 targeting pack, both of which come with Visual Studio 2022.
dotnet build Forgetti.slnx -c Releasedotnet test Forgetti.slnx -c ReleaseThe result is src/Forgetti/bin/Release/net48/Forgetti.exe. It targets .NET Framework 4.8 on
purpose: a .NET 8 build would need a runtime installed on every machine it is sent to, or a
70 MB self-contained bundle, to delete a dozen lines from an .ini file.
| Switch | Effect |
|---|---|
--dark |
Start in the ink palette. |
--revit-running |
Show the "Revit is open" banner without launching Revit. |
--sample |
Show one made-up row in each state. Touches no files. |
--screenshot <path> |
Render the window to a PNG at 2x and exit. |
The images on this page were made with --screenshot, and CI renders one on every build to
prove the window still opens on a machine that is not the author's.
Push a tag and the release workflow does the rest: tests, builds with the tag as the version,
checks that the binary agrees, and publishes Forgetti.exe and a zip to GitHub Releases.
git tag v1.0.0 && git push origin v1.0.0Forgetti wears Interlude's neubrutalist theme: heavy black outlines, square corners, solid unblurred shadows, one loud accent, and Space Grotesk set hard. Press a button and it drops onto its own shadow. The palette values are Interlude's exactly, so the two sit side by side without a seam. The switch in the corner flips between paper and ink.
Forgetti is released under the BSD 3-Clause License. Space Grotesk is embedded under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.