[FEATURE] Claude Desktop: show archived sessions as a collapsible sidebar group, most recent first, without switching the status filter
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Activity 0 comments · opened Oct 1, 2026
Problem
I often need to resume a session that has already been archived, and frequently I don't remember its name well enough for search to find it. Today the path is:
- Switch the sidebar status filter to show archived sessions.
- Scroll a lot — archived sessions come mixed into the list, not ordered by how recently they were archived or used.
- Open the session.
- Switch the filter back to active-only.
The session I want is almost always one of the last few I archived, so most of that scrolling and both filter switches are overhead.
Proposal
Show archived sessions as a group of their own in the sidebar — e.g. a collapsible Archived group at the bottom, alongside the regular groups, visible while the filter is on active sessions:
- sorted with the most recently archived (or most recently active) sessions at the top;
- collapsed by default, so it costs one row when not in use;
- limited to the latest N with a "show more" to load the rest, so it stays cheap with hundreds of archived sessions;
- clicking a row opens the session, with unarchive available from there as it is today.
That turns resuming a recently archived session into expand + click, with no filter change and no need to remember the title.
Related
- #67835 — asks for an Archived view in the desktop sidebar
- #92132 — archived sessions rendering inline inside their project group
- #86884 — the Archived Sessions group truncating on scroll (the "show more" above would need to avoid this)
Environment
- Claude Desktop 2.9939.4 (official
claude-desktop.deb), Code tab - Linux Mint 22.3, Cinnamon 6.6.9, X11