Claude Code beginner

Name and Search Your Sessions for Easy Recall

Use /rename to label important sessions, then find and resume them later with claude -r or by searching conversation history.

March 16, 2026

Sessions pile up fast. Naming the important ones makes them findable.

Name Your Sessions

/rename auth-middleware-refactor

Now when you run claude -r, this session appears with a meaningful label instead of a timestamp.

Resume Named Sessions

# Interactive picker showing named sessions
claude -r

# Continue the most recent session
claude -c

# Resume a specific session by ID
claude -r "session_id" "continue where we left off"

Search Conversation History

Conversations are stored locally as JSONL files:

# Find sessions where you discussed a topic
grep -l -i "rate limiter" ~/.claude/projects/-Users-*/conversations/*.jsonl

Tips

Name sessions for the task, not the date: auth-refactor not tuesday-work
Name any session you might want to return to, it takes 2 seconds
Use [TODO] prefix for incomplete work: /rename [TODO] finish rate limiter tests
Regularly clean up old sessions you no longer need

Paste into Claude Code

Rename this Claude Code session to something descriptive so I can find it later.