Cursor IDE UI/UX Design Tweaks #2: Hover-based scrollbar indicator for long chats

Hover-based scrollbar indicator for long chats

In long AI conversations, scrolling back to find a specific prompt or response becomes tedious and time consuming.

Adding a hover-based scrollbar indicator, similar to attached reference, would solve this. Instead of a plain scrollbar, small tick marks could represent each prompt along the conversation’s length. When users hover over a tick mark, a small preview tooltip appears showing the message content, allowing them to instantly identify where a specific exchange took place. Clicking the tick mark would then jump directly to that point in the chat.

This small addition would significantly improve navigation, save time, and make revisiting long conversations far more efficient and user-friendly.

The tick can be colored based on token usage and the angle can show which sub tasks are on going while which ones are completed.