Working sessions

Overview

A working session is your editing state for a document: the matches you toggled off, the regions you drew, the rotations you applied, and the per-document scope decisions. Lex Cloak can save that state as a small file next to your PDF, so a long review can pause and pick back up later, even on a different day. None of your document content is in that file.

Saving, resuming, and clearing

The save prompt at Download

When you click Download, Lex Cloak shows a small dialog that asks whether to save a session file alongside the redacted PDF. The file uses the same base name as your document with a .lexcloak.json ending. Choose Save, Do not save, or set a per-document override.

Pick a default in Settings

The Settings panel has a Working Session section with three defaults: Ask every time, Save automatically, or Discard automatically. The per-document override on the save prompt only changes the choice for the current document; the Settings default carries forward.

Resume from the recent list

Open the app with no document loaded and the upload zone shows a list of recent sessions with a thumbnail, filename, and date. Click any entry to resume editing exactly where you left it. Clear All removes the entries from the list.

Where the sidecar lives

The session file lives next to your PDF, in the same folder, on your own machine. It is a small JSON file with the editing decisions, not the document content, so it is safe to keep next to the source PDF. Lex Cloak never uploads it anywhere.

If you move the original PDF to a different folder, move the sidecar with it. If you do not want a session file, choose Do not save at the prompt, or set Discard automatically as your default in Settings.