The Favorites tab in the Catalog pane allows you to store connections to databases, folders, and servers that you use on a regular basis across multiple projects. This provides easy access to these resources from ArcGIS Pro and the ability to quickly add them to your current active project.
For example, if your organization has a primary GIS database that it uses for all its projects, then you might want to add it as a favorite so that you can easily add it to new projects as you start them. The following screenshot shows some examples of favorite connections:
As you can see from the preceding screenshot, favorites are stored as part of your user profile, just like your Documents folder in Windows. If your organization uses roaming profiles, then your ArcGIS favorites will follow you from one computer to another within your network.
If your organization only uses local profiles, which is fairly common, then...