Tidy a long project list at once

The first time the studio opens, it lists every project that Claude Code, Codex and Grok ever ran a session in. For someone who has used those tools for a year that can be hundreds of folders, most of them experiments you will never open again. Going through them one card at a time is not realistic.

Tidy the list does it in one go. You keep the projects that matter by pinning them, then hide or archive the rest, or everything whose last session is older than a date. Nothing is deleted: the folders on disk and the tools' own session files stay exactly as they were.

Hide or archive: which one

Both take projects out of the list and out of the alerts column. The difference is how you think of them afterwards.

• Hide is meant to be temporary. Use it when you want a clean screen for a demo or a recording, or just for a week of focus. One click shows every hidden project again.
• Archive is for projects you are done with. They wait under Archived projects at the end of the list until you bring them back.

A project can be pinned, archived and taken out of the archive one at a time as before; see Project cards: what each one tells you. Tidying is the same thing for many projects at once.

Tidy the list

1. Pin the projects you want to keep in view. Pinned projects are never touched.
2. Click the broom sign beside the box Find a project by name, at the top of the projects column. A box opens in place.
3. Choose Hide or Archive at the top of the box. Hide is chosen when the box opens.
4. Choose which projects: Every project that is not pinned, or Last session before with a date. The date starts 30 days back; change it to any day you like.
5. Read the count. The box says how many projects it will hide or archive, and how many it leaves as they are.
6. Press the button, which names the number, such as Hide 412 or Archive 412.

The count is worked out before anything changes, and again after: the box tells you how many were done. If some could not be done, it says how many of the total went through and asks you to try again.

What is never touched

Two kinds of project are left alone whatever you choose, and the count lists them separately:

• pinned projects;
• projects with a session that is working right now, or waiting for your answer or permission.

So a tidy started while sessions run cannot take away the project you are in the middle of. If your list holds projects from other computers of your studio, each computer is asked to tidy its own.

Bring hidden projects back

At the end of the projects column, under the cards, a folded line Hidden projects appears once something is hidden. Open it to see them.

• Show beside a project puts that one back in the list.
• Show all puts every hidden project back at once.

Projects the studio set aside by itself are not part of this line; it only holds what you hid.

Bring archived projects back

The folded line Archived projects now has Bring all back. The studio asks once, with the number, such as "Bring back all 412 archived projects?", and Yes, bring them back does it. One project still comes back on its own with Take out of archive.

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