How I Run Multiple Claude Code Sessions Without Losing Track

On any given day, I'm running 3-5 Claude Code sessions at the same time. One is building a feature on the main project. Another is fixing a bug I noticed. A third is writing tests. Sometimes a fourth is handling something completely different.

For a while, this meant I was constantly cycling through terminal tabs and windows, trying to remember which session was doing what, which one was waiting on me, and which one had quietly finished two minutes ago while I was typing into the wrong tab.

The problem isn't Claude — it's the terminal

Claude Code is fast. It kicks off work, hits a permission prompt or a question, and then waits. If you're in a different tab when that happens, you don't know. You're just working away in one session while another one has been sitting there idle, waiting for a yes/no that would take two seconds.

Standard terminals weren't built for this. They don't know what's happening inside a session. A tab is a tab — there's no visual signal for "this one needs you" versus "this one is still working."

What I actually wanted

I didn't need a fancy dashboard. I needed two things:

• Tab-level status: At a glance, I should know whether a session is working, waiting, or done. Without clicking into it.
• A single view of everything: One place that shows all active sessions across all my projects, so I can triage without hunting.

How I solved it

I built a workflow terminal that understands Claude Code sessions. Each tab shows live session status — working, waiting for input, idle. I can see at a glance which session needs me next.

On top of that, I built a session monitor — a floating HUD that shows every active Claude session on my machine. It stays on top of my other windows. It shows status, project name, and how much context each session has left.

The context health part turned out to be more important than I expected. Sessions approaching their context limit start making mistakes. Seeing that indicator before it becomes a problem means I can wrap up a session cleanly instead of losing work.

The workflow now

I open a terminal, Claude auto-launches and reads my CLAUDE.md. I give it a task and move on. When I glance at the monitor, I can see which sessions are working and which ones need me. I respond to prompts, check outputs, and keep everything moving.

There's no more "wait, which tab was the testing session?" moment. No more finding a session that's been waiting on me for ten minutes. It's a small thing, but across an 8-hour day, those minutes add up.

The tools

Both the workflow terminal and session monitor are part of Claude Code Toolkit — a menu bar app I built for exactly this kind of workflow. It's $24, one-time, no subscription. If you're running multiple Claude sessions and finding yourself tab-cycling, it might save you some headaches.