vscode 1.117 on Mac
When you work on multiple things at once, the Sessions panel becomes a wall of entries that's hard to navigate.
The search doesn't really help either — it misses sessions pretty often, probably because it only matches on titles and not on the actual content of the conversations. So you end up scrolling through dozens of entries trying to find the one you need.
I'd love to be able to group sessions into folders or tags, something like "Project A", "Experiments", "Done" — whatever makes sense to the user.
The infrastructure already supports grouping. There's groupByDate, groupByRepository, and groupByCapped in the sessions data source. Adding a user-defined grouping mode that lets you drag sessions into named groups would follow the same pattern.
What I'd expect:
- Right-click a session → "Move to Group..." → pick or create a group name
- Groups show as collapsible sections (like the existing "Today" / "Yesterday" / "More" headers)
- The group assignment persists across restarts (stored alongside the existing archived/pinned/read state in AgentSessionsCache)
- Sessions without a group just show at the top like they do now
Why not just use search?
Search is reactive, you already need to know what you want. Groups let you proactively organize while you work, like folders in a file explorer.
The pinned feature partially solves this but it's a single bucket. With 50+ sessions from different projects, one "pinned" list isn't enough.
vscode 1.117 on Mac
When you work on multiple things at once, the Sessions panel becomes a wall of entries that's hard to navigate.
The search doesn't really help either — it misses sessions pretty often, probably because it only matches on titles and not on the actual content of the conversations. So you end up scrolling through dozens of entries trying to find the one you need.
I'd love to be able to group sessions into folders or tags, something like "Project A", "Experiments", "Done" — whatever makes sense to the user.
The infrastructure already supports grouping. There's groupByDate, groupByRepository, and groupByCapped in the sessions data source. Adding a user-defined grouping mode that lets you drag sessions into named groups would follow the same pattern.
What I'd expect:
Why not just use search?
Search is reactive, you already need to know what you want. Groups let you proactively organize while you work, like folders in a file explorer.
The pinned feature partially solves this but it's a single bucket. With 50+ sessions from different projects, one "pinned" list isn't enough.