Why I built a small desktop app to stop losing my Claude Code sessions
The author developed a desktop app called Shelf to manage and recover Claude Code sessions more efficiently. The app was created to address the difficulty of locating specific sessions among multiple project folders. By utilizing Tauri, the app allows users to quickly scan and resume sessions without the need for a terminal interface.
- ▪The author had difficulty finding a specific session from twelve active repositories.
- ▪Shelf was initially a simple Python script but evolved into a Tauri desktop app for better usability.
- ▪The app allows users to scan sessions and resume them with one click, addressing limitations of the CLI.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3963184) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Echo Posted on Jun 3 Why I built a small desktop app to stop losing my Claude Code sessions #claudecode #tauri #devtools #opensource This is a builder note, not a launch post. I am writing it because the project is now at v0.2.18, and the question I keep getting asked in private is: why a desktop app, why Tauri, why not just a web app? Here is the honest answer. The trigger was small. I had twelve repos I was actively using Claude Code on.
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