Aggregating and presenting recent activities for synchronized online content management systems

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
• receiving, by the processor at a content management system, a first activity journal from a first client application associated with the content management system on a first client device, wherein the first activity journal comprises a first plurality of recent events associated with a content item in a user account of the content management system, the first plurality of recent events having occurred at the first client device;
• receiving, by the processor at the content management system, a second activity journal comprising a second plurality of recent events associated with content item activity from a second client application associated with the content management system on a second client device;
• identifying two or more recent events of the first plurality of recent events of the first activity journal and the second plurality of recent events of the second activity journal for with the content item that meet a criterion;
• aggregating the two or more recent events for the content item identified to meet the criterion;
• generating, by the processor at the content management system, an updated first activity journal based on the first plurality of recent events of the first activity journal and the second plurality of recent events of the second activity journal, and based on an aggregated recent event;
• sending, by the content management system, the updated first activity journal including the aggregated recent event to the first client device;
• and
• presenting, at the first client device, recent events from the updated first activity journal including the aggregated recent event to provide access to the content item within a folder structure at the first client device.

A computer-readable storage device storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, at a content management system, a first activity journal from a first client application associated with the content management system on a first client device, wherein the first activity journal comprises a first plurality of recent events associated with content item activity in a user account of the content management system, the first plurality of recent events having occurred at the first client device;
• receiving, by at least one processor at a content management system, a second activity journal comprising a second plurality of recent events associated with content item activity from a second client application associated with the content management system on a second client device;
• identifying two or more recent events of the first and second plurality of recent events identified by the first activity journal and the second activity journal for the content item that meet a criterion;
• aggregating, at the content management system, the two or more recent events for the content item identified to meet the criterion to yield an aggregated recent event for the content item;
• generating, by the content management system, an updated first activity journal based on the first plurality of recent events of the first activity journal and the second plurality of recent events of the second activity journal, and based on the aggregated recent event;
• sending, by the content management system, the updated first activity journal including the aggregated recent event to the first client device;
• and
• presenting, at the first client device, recent events from the updated first activity journal including the aggregated recent event to provide access to the content item within a folder structure at the first client device.