Currently, Cursor does not provide a way to mark chats as favorites in the AI Panel. When working with recurring conversations, users have to constantly search through the history to return to previously used chats. This creates unnecessary friction in the workflow and reduces productivity, especially for developers who regularly refer to specific AI conversations.
Most LLM interfaces (like ChatGPT, Claude, and others) already include functionality to bookmark or favorite conversations.
Proposed Solution
Implement a “Favorite” or “Bookmark” feature for chats in the AI Panel that would allow users to:
Mark specific chats as favorites with a star/bookmark icon
Access a dedicated “Favorites” section at the top of the chat list
Quickly switch between starred conversations without scrolling through history
Optionally, allow for organization of favorites into custom categories/folders
This implementation would be consistent with Cursor’s existing UI design language while providing significant workflow improvements.
Use Cases
Project-Specific References: Developers working across multiple projects often have specific AI chats related to each project’s architecture, code patterns, or requirements. Being able to favorite these conversations would provide quick access when switching contexts.
Code Review Templates: Many developers use AI chats as templates for code reviews. Marking these as favorites would save time recreating the same prompts repeatedly.
Learning Resources: Conversations that explain complex concepts or provide educational value could be saved for future reference without having to search through chat history.
Continuous Projects: For long-running projects, having quick access to previous design discussions or architecture decisions through favorited chats would maintain consistency and reduce the need to re-explain context.
Benefits
Significantly reduces the time spent searching through chat history to find relevant conversations
Provides structure to the chat interface, helping users manage their workspace more effectively
Eliminates the need to remember or search for important conversations, allowing developers to focus on their core tasks
Streamlines the development process by making contextual information instantly accessible
As a UI/UX developer, I agree that this is a needed feature. As simple bookmark icon within the chat, perhaps even at a specific point within a chat. Then you can click something to navigate your bookmarked chats.
+1.
I’d love some sort of better view of past chats or at least being able to save some for quick future access. Sometimes I start prototyping some feature, and I get quite good template/idea, but my code is not ready for that feature, so I can’t add it to code yet. I might want to return 10s of request later to it, but searching for that specific chat is kind of annoying. Pinning/marking some chats would really help.
Yes, would love this feature. Others like perplexity already have this feature and would be very useful for productivity.
In addition, giving agents permission (optionally by the user/owner) to look back at historical prompts and bookmarked ones will make it even more productive.
Problem: When doing exploratory work — data analysis, research, investigations that span many folders and files over days or weeks — the sidebar becomes overwhelming. Key files get buried in the tree, and the cognitive load of re-finding them causes context-switching friction, procrastination, and lost time.
Proposed solution: Add the ability to pin / favorite files and folders in the sidebar explorer. Pinned items would appear in a dedicated “Pinned” section at the top of the file explorer, persisted per workspace.
Key behaviors:
Right-click any file or folder → “Pin to Sidebar”
Pinned items appear in a collapsible “Pinned” section at the top of the explorer
Pins persist across sessions (per workspace)
Optional: support for simple ordering / grouping of pinned items
Optional: a keyboard shortcut to pin/unpin the currently active file
Use cases:
Data analysis projects where you revisit the same notebooks, scripts, and data files across multiple sessions
Large monorepos where frequently-needed files live deep in the folder tree
Research/exploration work that spans many directories over time
Reducing information overload when working across dozens of open files
Why this matters: A native, first-class pinning feature in Cursor’s sidebar would reduce friction significantly — especially in AI-assisted workflows where conversations and explorations often touch many files across a session. No existing workaround solves the persistent, cross-session bookmarking problem cleanly.
