[FEATURE] claude.ai Cowork on the web: let me turn off the unread dot on Recents rows, or mark all read
Not the CLI. This is Cowork on claude.ai in the browser (Chrome, macOS), on the project page and the Recents list.
What happens
Every session row I have not opened carries a small blue dot at the end of its title, and scheduled tasks show a "N new" count in the sidebar. There is no way to switch either off and no way to mark them read in bulk.
For an account that runs a dozen scheduled tasks, the dots are permanent. Mine currently reads 207 new on one task and 73 new on another — every one of those runs is an unattended job whose result was already reported elsewhere, so the indicator never carries information, it just never clears. The result is a Recents list where the marker is on almost everything, which is the same as it being on nothing.
What I checked
Settings on claude.ai (General → Appearance / Notifications, and the Cowork tab) has response-completion, Code, permission-request, email and Dispatch push toggles. Nothing about read state or the list indicator. Nothing in the Cowork docs or help centre either.
Asking for one of
- A setting to disable the unread dot / "N new" counter on session and scheduled-task rows, or
- A Mark all as read action on the Recents list and on a scheduled task, or
- Both, with the dot suppressed by default for trigger-spawned sessions, since a scheduled run finishing is not news the way a reply to a chat is.
Related
- #72468 — asks for the status dots to be higher contrast or configurable (desktop). Neighbouring, but that one wants to tell the dots apart; this one wants to be able to turn them off on the web.
- #79126 — closed; raised no-mark-all-read for the desktop Routines sidebar.
- #64193 — closed as duplicate; yellow dot never clearing, desktop.
None of them covers claude.ai Cowork in the browser, which is where I work.
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