Microsoft is celebrating OneDrive’s 15th anniversary with a new landing page, called OneDrive Home, and it should make it easier to keep track of your work. Instead of landing on the My Files tab when you first open OneDrive, you’ll find yourself on the new home page that looks like this panel in the online version of Office.
Like the Office web app, OneDrive Home contains a list of your files, organized by when you last accessed them. Above the list are filters that let you sort your documents by Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF file types.
It’s easier to understand new changes once you see them. Image: Microsoft
There’s also a new “Activity” column to the right of the file’s “Owner” field that tells you when someone leaves a comment, @mentions another user, or assigns you a task within a shared document. On the left side of the Start view, Microsoft is adding a new Quick Access section, where (just like in Windows) you can find and pin your most frequently accessed spaces.
Unfortunately, these changes aren’t available right now: Microsoft says OneDrive Home will be available in “the coming months.” However, it looks like the new home page could serve as a central hub to help you stay organized while collaborating remotely.
Aside from its OneDrive web app, Microsoft is also rolling out its photo story feature for the OneDrive mobile app (essentially the OneDrive equivalent of Instagram Stories) to users in Australia. The feature won’t be coming to users in the US or other regions until later this year.