quartz/layouts/partials/recent.html

<div class="content-list">
  <h2>{{ i18n "recent_notes" }}</h2>
  <!--
  You can also configure this to find related pages!
  All you need to pass into the "page-list.html" partial
  is a collection of pages.
  https://gohugo.io/content-management/related/
  -->
  {{$notes := .Site.RegularPages}}
  {{partial "page-list.html" (first 3 $notes)}}
</div>