Organise Claude Code and Codex chats with labels, pins, renames and bulk actions

The problem

After a few weeks of agent work, the chat lists fill up with titles like "Fix failing test" and "Investigate build". Each app offers its own tidy-up tools, but they only cover that app's chats, and they don't share a vocabulary: something you mark in Codex means nothing in Claude.

What most people want is simple: keep the three chats that matter today at the top, group the rest by what state they're in ("review", "blocked"), and make the finished ones disappear without deleting anything.

How Pairbar solves it

1. Pin what you're working on
   Open a chat's menu (⋯ or right-click) and press P. Pinned chats sit in a Pinned section at the top; drag them to reorder.
2. Add your own labels
   In the menu, Labels › New label… creates a tag such as "review", "blocked" or "today". Toggle existing labels from the same submenu. Each label shows as a coloured dot on the row.
3. Group or filter by label
   Set Group by: label in the bar under the search field, or filter to one label from the view menu. The filter controls wrap in a narrow sidebar and keep the selected label visible. If no chats match the app and label together, Clear filters restores the full list. With ⌘K, type Show label "review" or Clear label filter.
4. Rename the vague ones
   Press R in the menu. The dialog tells you before you confirm whether the new name goes into the app itself or stays in Pairbar (see the table below).
5. Hide what's finished
   Press D to hide a chat from Pairbar only. Turn on Show hidden chats to see them again, marked 👁‍🗨.
6. Do it to many chats at once
   ⇧-click a chat (or choose Select from its menu) to start selecting. Then a plain click adds or removes a chat and ⇧-click selects a range. The bar at the bottom offers Pin, Read, Unread, Label, Hide, Archive (Codex chats) and Done.

Shortcuts

What changes in the apps, and what stays in Pairbar

A chat renamed in Pairbar only still carries the app's title in its hover card ("Renamed in Pairbar · Claude calls it …"), and search finds it by either name. See renaming.

Other ways the list organises itself

• Group by project, app, status, date, label or none; Sort by most recent, name or status.
• Chats that need you always come first, in a Needs you section.
• Workflow runs in Codex get a workflow label automatically.
• Rows don't jump around while the pointer is over the list; the new order applies when it leaves.

Without Pairbar

Each app has its own ways to keep its list tidy: