How Zoxide Thinks

Zoxide isn't magic; it's math. It ranks directories based on an algorithm called Frecency.

Frecency = Frequency + Recency

• Frequency: How often you visit a folder.
• Recency: How recently you visited it.

Every time you visit a directory, Zoxide increases its score. If you don't visit it for a while, the score decays. This means a folder you used 100 times last year won't beat a folder you used 10 times today.

You can actually see the raw scores in your database.

If you delete a folder, Zoxide might still remember it. You can clean up these "ghost" entries.