claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix Feature Request — Conversation sidebar organization (folders / project grouping)

Feature Request — Conversation sidebar organization (folders / project grouping)

Problem After one month of intensive use, the left-side conversation panel becomes completely unnavigable. All conversations appear as a flat, undifferentiated chronological list with no way to group, filter, or archive them. For professional users managing multiple active projects simultaneously, this is a critical UX failure.

Requested feature Two complementary mechanisms:

1. Conversations belonging to a Project should appear grouped under that Project in the sidebar — not mixed into the global list.
2. A manual folder system for conversations outside of Projects, allowing users to create, name, and nest folders to archive or group conversations by context.

Why this matters I'm on the Max plan, using Claude as a core professional tool across concurrent projects (film production, sound engineering, technical R&D). The flat sidebar makes it impossible to locate a past conversation without scrolling through hundreds of unrelated entries. This forces me to keep external notes just to retrieve my own Claude conversations — which defeats the purpose of a professional-grade tool.

This is standard UX in every comparable tool (Notion, Obsidian, VS Code, Linear). It should ship with the product, not be a roadmap item.

Expected behavior

• Projects in the sidebar act as collapsible groups containing their conversations
• A "+ New folder" option allows manual organization of standalone conversations
• Drag-and-drop or right-click to move conversations between folders

Plan: Max | Platform: Claude Desktop (Windows)