Joshua, who builds it and runs it on his own machine every day
ConversationKeep · the estate record for the Claude desktop app and Claude Code
Everything you built with Claude. Kept. Still yours.
An estate record of every project, product, session and account on your computer. Independent of the app, the login and the subscription. It keeps itself.
Get ConversationKeep $149 / year
Windows · one click, no Python, no terminal · nothing leaves your computer
✓ Reads local files only
✓ Keeps itself current
✓ 30-day refund
Your estate, drawn as a map. The things you built at the top, every project and session under them.
The work is not the subscription.
What's inside those sessions is not chat. It's the afternoon the thing finally clicked. The three weeks of decisions you no longer remember making. The product you finished and forgot you finished.
You did that work when it was working. On inspiration. That is not on demand. You cannot order the same afternoon twice, and the version that lives in the session is the only version there is.
And the only reader for it is an app that indexes by login, empties its sidebar after a re-auth or an update or an account switch, and closes entirely the day you stop paying.
And here is the floor. Best case, it takes a skilled person a few days to get back to a working place: find the files, move records between account folders, work out what was where, prove what survived. That is the best case. It assumes you have that person, and it still does not give you back the state you were in.
The subscription is the cheap part. The work is the estate. And like every kind of insurance, nobody wants it until the evening they need it. If that evening is today, this page is the fastest way to end it. If it is not yet, this is the cheapest day to buy.
What you've been told
Three things that aren't true.
✕
"If it's not in the sidebar, it's gone."
The sidebar is one account's index. Your transcripts are on your computer, shared by every account, and the app only ever shows you one login's view of them.
✕
"I can always redo it."
You can redo the typing. You cannot redo the state you were in. Inspired work is not reproducible, and the transcript is the only place the reasoning was ever written down.
✕
"Claude keeps it for me."
The app keeps an index for the account that's signed in, and reading it needs a paid plan. Emptied sidebars and missing content are open issues on Anthropic's own tracker. The files are yours. The reader is not.
None of this is your fault. The app was never built to answer "what do I have, and is it all still here?"
The turn
An estate record the app doesn't own.
ConversationKeep reads what the Claude desktop app and Claude Code already write to your disk, every account, every folder, every Claude-tab session, and keeps its own record of all of it: a ledger that never drops a session, a copy of every transcript, and an inventory of the things you are building, found from their own files. Then it draws the whole estate as one map. It runs every time a Claude session starts or ends. You never run anything.
If the app forgets, the sidebar empties, the login changes, or the subscription ends, your record is still there. Still readable. Still yours.
Why this does not exist anywhere else
You cannot get this somewhere else. We checked.
What exists are pieces, and all of them are for developers: a terminal session browser, a history viewer with a backup button, a fuzzy-search script. Every one is single-account, Code-only, and needs a terminal. Nothing else reads the desktop app's own session index, covers Cowork alongside Code, tells you which account a session belongs to, finds the products you built, keeps copies of your published pages, or installs with one click for someone who has never opened a terminal.
The nearest thing to a fix for the account problem is a blog post that tells you to quit the app and move record files between folders by hand. The problem itself is real enough to have at least six separate threads on Anthropic's own issue tracker: sidebars emptied by a re-login, an update, a plan change, an account switch, and one where the content was never saved at all.
Nobody sells the record. Everybody sells the subscription.
How it works
Install once. It keeps from then on.
1
Run the installer.One file. It finds your project folders and Claude's data, wires itself in, and writes your first record in about a minute.
2
It records.A ledger entry for every session it has ever seen, a copy of every transcript, and the terminal 30-day cleanup turned into 10 years. A session the app stops listing stays on the record.
3
It takes inventory.Sales pages, bundles, offers, courses: the things you built, found from their own files, with a stage and a snapshot, at the top of the map. In the tree every project opens into two folders: its Sessions, each with a one-click Desktop button that opens it in the Claude app, and its Assets: the file to read first, the product with its ship kit and offer, what Claude-tab sessions delivered, and the pages it published.
4
It knows which account.Which login each session was born on, a plain banner when the app is on the other one, and an optional mirror so every login's sidebar shows everything.
5
It keeps up.Rebuilt at every session start and end. Maintained through the year as the app changes the files underneath it. That is what the year buys.
The tree. One project, its sessions, its assets. Every link checked against the disk at every rebuild.
What's included
The whole estate, in one record.
- ✓The record. A ledger that never forgets a session, a copy of every transcript, and the terminal cleanup switched off.
- ✓The inventory. Things you are building, detected from their own files, with stage, snapshot and a button to the page.
- ✓The map. Map, Tree, Table and Timeline of every project, session and product, in a window of its own. Any session opens in the Claude desktop app with one click.
- ✓Your published pages, kept. A page published on claude.ai opens only from the account that published it. The record keeps a copy that opens with no account, and tells you which login the live page needs.
- ✓No dead ends. Every file, page, product and deliverable on the map is checked against your disk at every rebuild. Anything moved or deleted is marked missing instead of failing silently.
- ✓Two-account sanity. Born-on login per session, a banner when the app is on the wrong one, and the mirror.
- ✓A line at the top of every Claude session saying which account it was born on and which tools it was started with.
- ✓Every computer you own. Point each machine at a synced folder and they merge into one record.
- ✓A reader that needs no account. Opens, maps and searches your whole history with no login and no plan.
- ✓A year of keeping up as the app changes under it.
What it would cost you.
Best case: a skilled person, a few days, to get back to a working placedays
If you don't have that personnever
An evening proving to yourself that nothing was deletedhours
A product you finished, filed three folders deep, and forgotits launch
The session where it clicked, gone with a login you no longer havenot recoverable
Three weeks of decisions with nothing that says why you made themthe rework
The afternoon you were in the right state, and can't be again on purposenot on demand
The floor is a few days of a skilled person, and that only gets you back to where you were. The work itself, and the state you were in, are not recoverable at any price. That is what the record insures.
This is for you if
- you use the Claude desktop app, the Claude tab, or Claude Code on Windows
- what you build with Claude is your work, not a toy
- you have more than one account, or more than a handful of projects
- you would rather pay for something that just works than do file surgery from a blog post
- you have seen the empty sidebar once, or read one of the threads about it, and do not intend to be the next one
Not for you if
- you only use Claude in a web browser (those chats never touch your computer)
- you want a better search box (the app's own search is good; see below)
- you're on a Mac (not yet; ask and we'll tell you when)
- you're looking for a cloud sync service
Straight talk
What it won't do.
It is not a better search box. The desktop app already searches inside your conversations: press Ctrl+K and type. It's good. ConversationKeep's search exists for the moments that box can't reach: the other account's sessions, sessions the app no longer lists, or a day when you have no working app at all.
It won't let you continue a conversation without a plan. It reads, maps and searches everything you did. Picking a session back up still needs Claude.
It won't reach chats on claude.ai in a browser. Those live on Anthropic's servers, not your disk. ConversationKeep is for the desktop app and Claude Code, where the transcripts are yours to read.
It won't change any usage limit, and it won't sync to the cloud or phone home. It reads local files and writes local files. That's the whole point.
It's not signed with a code-signing certificate yet, so Windows will show a "protected your PC" screen the first time. Click More info → Run anyway. The installer tells you exactly what it touches: its own folder, two lines in Claude's settings, a shortcut.
Why it exists
Built after a very bad evening.
A bank flagged a card. The subscription lapsed for a day. When the app came back it was signed into the second account, the sidebar was empty, and it took the whole evening to prove that three weeks of work was not deleted. It wasn't. It was on the disk the whole time, with nothing anywhere that said so. Then the first record it wrote found something else: a finished product, ready to launch, three folders deep, that I had forgotten I built. That is the difference between a subscription and an estate.
30-day guarantee
The risk is entirely ours.
Install it, run it for a month. If it didn't give you a record you trust more than the sidebar, email hello@conversationkeep.com and you get every dollar back. No form, no questions.
The price
$149 / year
About $12 a month. Less than one week of a Max subscription, for a record of everything the subscription ever produced.
- One person, every computer you own.
- Renews yearly. Cancel any time: the record and the reader keep working, you just stop getting updates as the app changes.
- 30 days, every dollar back, one email.
Questions
Before you buy.
Why does it cost $149 a year?
Because it's priced against the work, not the app. The work you did with Claude cost you hours you can't get back and a state you can't summon on purpose. The subscription that produced it costs $100 to $200 a month. The best-case recovery without a record is a skilled person for a few days, which at any hourly rate is more than this costs for years. $149 a year is under a week of the subscription, and it pays for the one thing a local record needs to stay true: someone keeping it working as the app changes the files underneath it.
What happens if I stop paying?
Nothing breaks. The program is on your computer and keeps recording and opening your map. You stop receiving updates, so if the app changes its file layout after that, the record may need a newer version to keep up. Your history is plain files in your own folder either way.
Is there really nothing else like it?
Not in this form. There are free developer tools that browse or back up Claude Code sessions from a terminal, one account at a time, Code only. There is the app's own search, for the account you are signed into. And there is the manual fix: moving files between account folders by hand. ConversationKeep is the only thing that does the whole job, for both accounts and both kinds of session, with the products and the published pages included, and that a person can install in a minute.
Doesn't the app already have search?
Yes. Ctrl+K in the desktop app searches inside your conversations for the account you're signed into, and it's good. ConversationKeep isn't competing with it. It's the record underneath: what to fall back on when that account is the wrong one, has lapsed, or has stopped listing the session you need.
Does it send my conversations anywhere?
No. It reads local files and writes local files, in its own folder. There is no account, no server, no telemetry. The small local server it runs listens on your own machine only.
What about pages I published on claude.ai?
They are listed under the project they belong to, with the account that published them, because a published page opens only from that account. Say "archive my pages" in a Claude session on that account and the record keeps a copy of each one, which opens from the map with no login at all. The copy is the page as published; a page that is really an app with a database behind it opens as its shell.
Does it work with chats on claude.ai in a browser?
No. Those never touch your computer. ConversationKeep covers the Claude desktop app (Code and Claude-tab sessions) and Claude Code in a terminal, because those write transcripts to your disk.
What does the installer change?
It puts the program in its own folder, adds two lines to Claude's settings so the record updates at session start and end, raises Claude Code's terminal transcript retention from 30 days to 10 years, installs a small Claude skill, and makes a shortcut. Each of those is a checkbox you can untick. Uninstall from Installed apps puts them all back and leaves your history for you.
Windows says it "protected my PC".
The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows shows that screen for any new program. Click More info, then Run anyway. If that bothers you, the source is public on GitHub and you can read every line it runs.
Two accounts?
Yes. It shows which account each session was born on, warns when the app is on a different one, and can mirror every session into every account's sidebar. The mirror is a checkbox and can be undone at any time. It does not change any account's limits.
Mac?
Not yet. The code is written for it but untested. Email hello@conversationkeep.com and you'll hear the day it ships.
Refunds?
30 days, every dollar, one email. You don't have to explain.
What is the work worth?
Not the $200 a month. A few days of a skilled person just to get back to where you were, if you have one. And the hours, the decisions, the afternoon it clicked, which nobody can get back. You can keep trusting an index that belongs to whichever login is signed in today. Or you can keep the estate.
Get ConversationKeep $149 / year
Windows · installs in about a minute · 30-day refund
P.S. The cost of waiting is not the price. It's the next session you do in the right state, with nothing keeping it but a sidebar. That state is not on demand.