diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 18c9734551..215f80c800 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 - Add Message of the Day app. Issue #222
 - Update Document model's uuid field to use Django's native UUIDField class.
 - Add new split view index navigation
+- Newly uploaded documents appear in the Recent document list of the user.
 
 2.0.2 (2016-02-09)
 ==================
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.1.rst b/docs/releases/2.1.rst
index 4e6bd33993..a0f7d1bf12 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.1.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/2.1.rst
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Other changes
 - Folder and Tag creation API calls now return the id of the created instances.
 - Update Document model's uuid field to use Django's native UUIDField class.
 - Add new split view index navigation
+- Newly uploaded documents appear in the Recent document list of the user.
 
 Removals
 --------
diff --git a/mayan/apps/sources/models.py b/mayan/apps/sources/models.py
index 22ad807261..1e4baf9ebd 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/sources/models.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/sources/models.py
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ class Source(models.Model):
                     file_object=file_object, _user=user
                 )
 
+                if user:
+                    document.add_as_recent_document_for_user(user)
+
                 Transformation.objects.copy(
                     source=self, targets=document_version.pages.all()
                 )