Have you ever spent 20 minutes looking for a conversation you had with Cursor last week? The one where it helped you fix a tricky async bug—and now you're facing the same issue in a different project, but can't find that thread anywhere?

This isn't a user error. It's a structural limitation in how Cursor handles session history.

The Current State of Cursor Session Management

Cursor includes a built-in conversation history panel. You can browse sessions for the current project and click into any conversation to review the context.

This works fine when you have a handful of sessions. But as usage scales, problems emerge.

Problem 1: Sessions Are Siloed by Project

Cursor ties sessions to the project level. A conversation in project-a doesn't appear when you open project-b .

This makes sense architecturally—each project has its own context. But in practice, many problems are cross-cutting: authentication patterns, deployment scripts, CI configurations.…