Historian.el stores the results of completing-read and similar functions persistently. This provides a way to give completion candidates that are more frequently or more recently used a better position in the candidates list.
Depending on how you've configured use-package, setup could be as simple as:
(use-package historian)
(use-package ivy-historian)
(use-package ivy
:init
(ivy-mode +1)
(historian-mode +1)
:config
(ivy-historian-mode +1))You can try the following
(setq ivy-historian-recent-boost most-positive-fixnum)Then recent candidates should unconditionally appear first, if ivy-historian is working.