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With the current CLI interface, If I start a session on my terminal window and my macbook crashes or I reboot it before ending the session, all the data is lost.

That's not very convenient.

A solution could be (1) another interface (would a web interface mitigate that? it would still run on my computer though?) or (2) let the app record non ended sessions or (3) let the app end the session if an unexpected crash happens.

(3) is kind of appealing. But what if a user does KeyBoardInterrupt? It would be nice if I could identify from within python the reason the program is ended (if I put it in a dumb way, something like MacbookRebootedInterrupt....). Then the program would do something if that kind of interruption happens, which is ending the session for the user. You'd still be in trouble though because, it means the user's session might be ended without that user being aware of it.... Which is the boundary of the app I guess, I don't think there is a solution to this. It does make sense to say 'my work is over' if my macbook crashes.

If I had a nice app (with a UI other than the terminal), I'd let it notify the user after the crash that it automatically ended the session : 'hey, I ended your session because something unexpected happened. Would you like to resume it?'.