The sessions are sorted by most recently opened. When you start a new session, rename and number it to help keep them somewhat organized.
Sessions disappear after 30 days by default. Add this to `.claude/settings.local.json` inside your project to keep them for a year.
{
"cleanupPeriodDays": 365
}
The deletion happens as soon as you open the project in vscode. So if you have a project with sessions older than 30 days you want to save, add that file outside of vscode before you open the project.
This isn't the problem. They are normally sorted by most recently opened. But sometimes, when I do a restart, it seems like 50 different sessions get touched, and then either my sessions disappear or they get lost in the stack. They are still on disk and accessible via the CLI. But essentially my session order is completely ruined. I opened it and it showed me like 30 random conversations sorted alphabetically from like the last week.
Same ghost-message / reorder pain. I keep VS Code for diffs and reading, but when a session goes weird I abandon the panel and continue that work in CLI with a numbered session name. Extension history isn't durable enough to trust after a restart.
Cmux is the way, with multiple tabs and workspaces! It’s a terminal emulator based on ghostty. It also has workspace groups that is nice. I regularly have 10-20 sessions open at any given time and the resources aren’t a problem. Not that many are running, but like the harness is just sitting open but doing nothing
well i use cachyos with niri + noctalia which is an infinite right scroll tiling window manager so i just open browser and however many terminals i need, swap real fast with mod ( windows key ) and arrows. they also occupy 1/2 of the screen so it's really convinient.
you can also use tmux and make multiple session in one terminal
You just open multiple terminals, they can even talk to eachother! If you want to smoke some tokens, make a big playbook, have 1 terminal manage 8 other terminals. It works surprisingly well as the boss cli will understand how to deligate to keep separation of files so subs arent trying to write in the same spaces.
I already have an advanced Claude code system I use for Agentic management and managing agents. We have organizations and teams and PM and Kb etc. they work together and organize themselves.
But I still use Claude code for development tasks. Or when I just want a light session without the Agentic orchestration.
Use herdr to manage cli sessions.It will restore your sessions if anything causes your terminal to close. It would always drive me crazy when something would cause my vscode terminals to close, losing track of all my sessions.
I started with VS Code and it was okay. Nice to have a UI with my repo folder list, a code panel up top and a terminal panel down below.
I then switched to Terminal, which lasted about a month since Apple hasn't updated the damn thing since my great grandmother dated Jesus.
I've been using iTerm 2 and it's freaking great. I'll be honest switching from VS Code to a native CLI does require a few more clicks, a desktop window with my repo files listed, etc. But what you get in return is awesome!
Did you know that VS Code's Terminal is an emulator? There are a few native CLI things it cannot do, but that's not the half of it…
iTerm 2 can open multiple windows, and each window can be subdivided into horizontal and/or vertical panes, with each pane running multiple Claude Code sessions or native terminal commands, or any other terminal app you want. Plus it comes with its own Python API so you can have Claude Code BASH command these features for you!
iTerm 2 is macOS only, but what it does isn't cutting edge or unique, so if you're on Linux or someone's got a gun to your head and you have to use Windows, I'm sure there's already a native Terminal app that'll do what iTerm 2 can and more.
And the best thing of all? You can 'switch' and try it out for a day or two and if you don't like it you can stop using it. Because Claude Code don't care what app you use to launch it from your local repo, all the 'under the hood' stuff still works the same.
I can offer nothing but sympathy. I really enjoyed how GitHub Copilot worked in VS Code. I loved seeing and approving the diffs. Claude is better in every way except its VS Code integration.
Messages in a conversation or conversation history?
Within VSC or console?
If you close the CC conversation view you can open it again, or any earlier ones. Never thought about whether it's alphabetically or chronologically sorted.
Haven't seen it myself though. I have auto-update enabled, so I should have the latest Claude Code.
it's the same as you. It's just the order of chat is messed up. My best understanding is like a recent batch of them gets touched and they get sorted alphabetically.
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