Every tile, explained

No menus to learn — just buttons that make sense.

Each project sits on its own tile with everything you need one click away. Here’s exactly what each button does.

Launch Claude

Opens a terminal right inside this project’s folder and starts Claude Code — already caught up on where you left off. No typing paths, no wrong directory.

New: the little ▾ next to it lets you start Codex CLI, OpenCode, or your own command in that project instead — it remembers your pick per project, and the button takes that tool’s colour so you can see what you’re launching at a glance.

CLAUDE.md

Opens this project’s instructions — the standing notes Claude follows for this specific project. Edit it to tell Claude how you like things done.

📊 Status

Status

Opens the project’s status report — a friendly checklist of what’s done, what’s in progress, and what’s next. (More on this just below.)

📁

Open folder

Opens the project’s folder in Windows File Explorer, so you can grab a file, drop something in, or just see what’s in there.

i

The (i) summary

Auto-writes a one-line description of what the project is — so a wall of folders becomes a list you can actually read at a glance.

☑ select

Quick select

Tick the box to pick projects out — handy for archiving a few at once when you’re tidying up.

The 📊 Status button

See what’s done — and what’s next.

Claude keeps notes as it works. The status report turns those notes into a clean, clickable checklist you can actually read — and update yourself.

✅

A checklist you can tap through

Click any item to cycle it — once for in progress, again for done, a third time to clear. Every section keeps its own little progress bar. (Try it on the report →)

📝

Notes, decisions & done — all in one place

Scroll the report for the fuller picture: what’s been finished, the decisions you’ve made, and a notes box that saves itself as you type.

salon-website — Status Report ─□✕

salon-website

Status Report

Click to cycle: in progress done clear

➡ Up next

Draft the new homepage copy
Pick a warm color palette
Wire up the booking form
Build the contact page
Connect the domain name
Publish to the web

Progress

0 / 6 done

✅ Done so far

Set up the project folder & first draft
Chose the booking provider
Wrote the “About the salon” section

🧠 Decisions

Warm, calm look — creams & terracotta, not loud neon.

Booking first — the “Book now” button follows you down the page.

📝 My notes

Ask Claude to add a gallery once the photos are back from the shoot. Domain renews in March.

scroll ⌄

Memory, blended

Every project remembers — and they share.

The quiet superpower: your projects don’t start cold. Claude writes its own notes as it works — you never take a note — and every project’s memory is woven together.

🕸️

A memory blend across every project — meet Synapse

The notes write themselves. As Claude works, it keeps its own running notes — what it built, what’s next, what you decided — automatically, with zero effort from you. (Think Obsidian or Notion, except you never have to write anything: the notebook fills itself.) Every project keeps its own memory, and Synapse blends them together — so Claude can borrow a detail from one project while working in another, and your projects build on each other instead of starting from scratch. The files are plain Markdown, so they still open natively in Obsidian, Notion, or any notes app if you want to peek.

🧠

“Where were we?” just works

Because the memory lives right next to the code, you can come back weeks later, ask where you left off, and pick up mid-thought.

Synapse

invoices

tax-helper

blog

book-tracker

birthday-invites

portfolio

recipes

salon-website

The little things

Made to feel effortless.

No setup, no jargon. Point it at the folder where your projects live, and everything just shows up.

✨

Updates itself

When there’s a new version, the app tells you and updates with a single click — it downloads, installs, and reopens on its own. You’ll never hunt for a download link again.

🧭

No command line needed

If you can use a folder, you can use this. It’s built for people who are brand-new to Claude Code — every action is a clearly labeled button.

🔓

Free & open source

No subscription, nothing to sign up for, no account. The whole thing is on GitHub for anyone to read, fork, or improve.

Going further

Curious what else is out there?

The Dashboard isn’t tied to one AI — it can launch whatever you’ve got. Here’s some homework we did while figuring out our own setup.

🆓

Explore other “free” LLMs

A handful of AI models are free to use right now through OpenCode (DeepSeek, Hy3, North Mini Code, and others). We built a side-by-side comparison of what each is good at — and a heads-up on the catch: “free” usually means your conversations may be used to improve the model, so keep anything private off of them.

See the comparison →
Which one should I use? →

🖥️

Build your own local LLM

Prefer something private that runs entirely on your own computer, free forever, no internet required? That’s a local AI (via a free tool called Ollama) instead of a cloud one. We wrote up how we picked our own lineup and built a free interactive tool that recommends models based on your machine’s specs.

Read how we built ours →
Try the interactive picker →

Get started

Ready in under a minute.

No accounts, no command line, no fuss. Three steps and you’re in.

1

Download & open

Grab the installer below and double-click it. It installs just for you — no admin password.

2

Open it

On Mac it’s Apple-signed & notarized — it just opens. On Windows, click More info → Run anyway on the blue notice (safe — the Windows build isn’t code-signed yet).

3

Point it at your folder

On first launch, pick the folder where your projects live. That’s it — your tiles appear.

Get the Claude Project Dashboard

Free & open source. Works on Windows 10/11 and macOS (Apple-signed · Intel + Apple Silicon).

Download v2.12.2

Prefer the source? Browse it on GitHub →

All your Claude Code Terminal projects, in one place.

Made for the terminal — not a chat window.

No menus to learn — just buttons that make sense.

Launch Claude

CLAUDE.md

Status

Open folder

The (i) summary

Quick select

See what’s done — and what’s next.

A checklist you can tap through

Notes, decisions & done — all in one place

Every project remembers — and they share.

A memory blend across every project — meet Synapse

“Where were we?” just works

Made to feel effortless.

Updates itself

No command line needed

Free & open source

Curious what else is out there?

Explore other “free” LLMs

Build your own local LLM

Ready in under a minute.

Download & open

Open it

Point it at your folder

Get the Claude Project Dashboard

Grab your free download

No menus to learn — just buttons that make sense.

Launch Claude

CLAUDE.md

Status

Open folder

The (i) summary

Quick select

And across the top:

See what’s done — and what’s next.

A checklist you can tap through

Notes, decisions & done — all in one place

Every project remembers — and they share.

A memory blend across every project — meet Synapse

“Where were we?” just works

Made to feel effortless.

Updates itself

No command line needed

Free & open source

Curious what else is out there?

Explore other “free” LLMs

Build your own local LLM

Ready in under a minute.

Download & open

Open it

Point it at your folder

Get the Claude Project Dashboard