Allow manually reordering sidebar groups in the desktop app

Status Fixed / completed
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Activity 3 comments · opened Jun 28, 2026 · closed Aug 25, 2026

Feature request

In the Claude Code desktop app (Mac/Windows), sessions in the sidebar can be grouped (e.g. by project) and filtered by status/project/environment. However, the order in which groups appear is driven entirely by metadata — there's no way to manually set the placement of a group.

What I'd like

The ability to manually reorder groups in the sidebar — e.g. drag-and-drop a group up or down, or pin frequently-used groups to the top — so the most relevant projects/groups stay where I want them rather than following the default metadata-driven order.

Why

When working across several projects, the auto-ordering buries the groups I use most. A user-defined order (or pinning) would make navigating the sidebar much faster.

Current workaround

Filtering and grouping by project/status/environment helps narrow the view, but there's no persistent custom ordering of the groups themselves.

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3 Comments

sectorwind · 1 month ago

If there is one thing I could use right now, it's the ability to manually reorder groups in the sidebar. It is the thing that drives me crazy every day and totally ruins my jam.

CompanionLink · 1 month ago
  1. I can't control group order, and that is critical because for some reason my least important groups are on top.
  2. When sorted by recency - my latest threads are LAST and not FIRST, and frequently hidden under "12 more threads"
  3. Prior UI versions I could sent time frame to 7 days, but that setting is now gone - and so my list has about 150 threads in 8 groups - the most important are at the bottom. It takes 3 scrolls and 2 mouse clicks to get to my active thread from yesterday.
superot4 · 24 days ago

Claude Code ordered the groups in a wrong way! Brought together unrelated project, splited chats from the same project to different groups. I like the former way better.