How to Browse All Your Claude Code Conversations Across Projects

Ever had a great conversation with Claude Code in one project and wanted to find it later? Maybe you solved a tricky bug, figured out a clever pattern, or just want to continue where you left off—but you can't remember which folder you were in.

Good news: Claude Code stores all your conversation history centrally, and you can browse it regardless of your current directory.

The Quick Answer

claude --resume

This opens an interactive picker showing your recent conversations across all projects. Search, scroll, and select any previous chat to resume it.

Other Useful Options

claude --resume                 # Interactive picker for all recent chats
claude --continue               # Resume the most recent conversation (any project)
claude --continue --cwd /path   # Resume most recent in a specific directory

Where History Lives

All conversations are indexed in:

~/.claude/projects/

Each project directory gets a subfolder there with its conversation history stored as JSON files. You can explore this directly:

ls ~/.claude/projects/

There's also a session log:

~/.claude/history.jsonl

This contains metadata about recent sessions—useful for scripting or building your own tools on top of Claude Code's history.

TL;DR: claude --resume is your friend. Use it to browse and resume any past conversation, no matter where you were working.