Organizing sessions

Once you are running more than a handful of sessions, the list becomes the problem. Happier gives you four ways to impose order on it, and all four are stored on the server, so the arrangement you build on your laptop is the one you see on your phone.

Folders are on by default. Nothing here needs turning on unless your server operator has disabled sessions.folders.

Folders

Folders group sessions the way directories group files, and they nest.

• Create, rename, move and delete them, and nest one inside another.
• Assign a session by dragging it onto a folder, or through the session's context menu.
• Drag a session onto the workspace root to take it out of a folder without putting it in another.
• Focus a folder to see only its contents, with breadcrumbs back out.
• Collapse folders you are not working in.

Deleting a folder does not delete its sessions. They move up to the parent folder, or to the workspace root if the folder was top level. There is no variant that discards the contents, which is deliberate — a mis-click on a folder should never lose work.

Drag and drop works the same way on web, iOS and Android, including drag-scrolling when the target is off screen. If the server rejects a change you made while offline, the move rolls back rather than silently diverging.

Tags

Tags cut across folders. A session lives in exactly one folder but can carry several tags, so tags are the right tool for a state or a theme that spans projects — needs-review, flaky, customer-x.

Filter by one tag or several at once. Deleting a tag removes it from every session that carried it and leaves the sessions alone.

Pins

Pin the few sessions you keep coming back to and they stay at the top of the list, above everything else, regardless of folder.

Pinned sessions appear during the first paint of a long list rather than after you scroll, which is the point of pinning them. Archiving a session removes it from the pinned list and gives the pin quota back.

Selecting several at once

Long-press a row, or use its menu, to start a selection. Then archive, delete, move, mark read, or change attention handling for all of them together. The selection survives the list updating underneath you and survives scrolling.

Ordering

Within a scope — pinned, a folder, a tag, a workspace, a group — you can set your own order rather than accepting the default sort. That order is stored per scope, so the arrangement inside one folder does not disturb another.

Limits

Generous, but not unbounded. Each is per account:

These bound the snapshot every client parses on first paint, which is why they exist at all. A write past the limit is refused with an explanation rather than being accepted and silently dropped.

Related

• Session read and unread state — including Keep in Needs attention, which is separate from unread.
• New session shortcuts
• Feature flags — sessions.folders.