diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4bb801b..43e894c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ list, which the interactive UI opens as a full screen with `esc`:
     "days": 7,
     "repo": "cwd",
     "statuses": "all",
-    "sources": ["cli", "manual"]
+    "sources": ["cli", "web"]
   }
 }
 ```
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ hides sessions that have not moved in that long; `0` means no age cutoff. `repo`
 list only sessions on the repository your shell is in, or `"any"` for all of
 them. `statuses` is `"unfinished"` to leave out the sessions that finished,
 errored, or were stopped, or `"all"` to keep them. `sources` lists only sessions
-started those ways (`react`, `manual`, `api`, `cli`, `mention`, `cron`); leave it
+started those ways (`react`, `web`, `api`, `cli`, `mention`, `cron`); leave it
 out for all of them.
 
 Every field is optional and the defaults above are what you get with no
diff --git a/src/commands/session.tsx b/src/commands/session.tsx
index d699774..bd9d12d 100644
--- a/src/commands/session.tsx
+++ b/src/commands/session.tsx
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ export function registerSession(program: Command): void {
       'ls',
     ).addHelpText(
       'after',
-      '\nSources: react, manual, api, cli, mention, cron. ' +
+      '\nSources: react, web, api, cli, mention, cron. ' +
         '--since/--until accept ISO 8601 or "today", "yesterday", "N days ago".',
     ),
     'GET /v1/sessions',
diff --git a/src/lib/args.ts b/src/lib/args.ts
index 398e39a..ae4ac84 100644
--- a/src/lib/args.ts
+++ b/src/lib/args.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export function toNumber(value: string): number {
 // fails fast with the full list instead of a server-side 422.
 export const SESSION_SOURCES = [
   'react',
-  'manual',
+  'web',
   'api',
   'cli',
   'mention',
diff --git a/src/lib/config.ts b/src/lib/config.ts
index 0c2ce44..e112050 100644
--- a/src/lib/config.ts
+++ b/src/lib/config.ts
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ export interface SessionBarConfig {
   // "unfinished" drops the sessions that completed, errored, or were stopped,
   // leaving the conversations still going. "all" keeps them.
   statuses?: 'all' | 'unfinished'
-  // Only sessions started these ways, e.g. ["cli", "manual"]. An empty list
+  // Only sessions started these ways, e.g. ["cli", "web"]. An empty list
   // means every source. Laptop sessions never appear whatever this says: there
   // is nothing in the cloud to open.
   sources?: string[]
@@ -243,12 +243,12 @@ export const SESSION_BAR_DEFAULTS: Required<Omit<SessionBarConfig, 'sources'>> &
   days: 7,
   repo: 'cwd',
   statuses: 'all',
-  sources: ['manual', 'cli', 'mention'],
+  sources: ['web', 'cli', 'mention'],
 }
 
 export type ResolvedSessionBar = typeof SESSION_BAR_DEFAULTS
 
-const SESSION_SOURCES = ['react', 'manual', 'api', 'cli', 'mention', 'cron']
+const SESSION_SOURCES = ['react', 'web', 'api', 'cli', 'mention', 'cron']
 
 // The session bar's settings, defaults filled in — set them under
 // `"sessionBar"` in ~/.ellipsis/config.json. A value of the wrong type or
diff --git a/src/lib/sessions.ts b/src/lib/sessions.ts
index f2247bb..d30e2f9 100644
--- a/src/lib/sessions.ts
+++ b/src/lib/sessions.ts
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ export const SESSION_BAR_FETCH = 50
 
 // The picker header's description of the bar's active filters — the answer to
 // "where are the rest of my sessions?". Mirrors sessionBarQuery, with one
-// exception: the default sources are not named, since "manual/cli/mention" is
+// exception: the default sources are not named, since "web/cli/mention" is
 // what everyone sees and answers no question. null when there is nothing to say.
 export function sessionBarFilterLabel(
   bar: {
diff --git a/test/args.test.ts b/test/args.test.ts
index dcac6a0..847946d 100644
--- a/test/args.test.ts
+++ b/test/args.test.ts
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ describe('collectSource / collectStatus', () => {
   })
 
   it('reject unknown values listing the valid ones', () => {
-    expect(() => collectSource('slack', [])).toThrow(/source must be one of: react, manual/)
+    expect(() => collectSource('slack', [])).toThrow(/source must be one of: react, web/)
     expect(() => collectStatus('done', [])).toThrow(/status must be one of: scheduled/)
   })
 })
diff --git a/test/config.test.ts b/test/config.test.ts
index dc5e643..7b5dca0 100644
--- a/test/config.test.ts
+++ b/test/config.test.ts
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ describe('sessionBar', () => {
         days: 30,
         repo: 'any',
         statuses: 'unfinished',
-        sources: ['cli', 'manual'],
+        sources: ['cli', 'web'],
       },
     })
     expect(sessionBar()).toEqual({
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ describe('sessionBar', () => {
       days: 30,
       repo: 'any',
       statuses: 'unfinished',
-      sources: ['cli', 'manual'],
+      sources: ['cli', 'web'],
     })
   })
 
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ describe('sessionBar', () => {
 
   it('defaults to the human-started sources when the key is absent', () => {
     writeConfig({ version: 2, hosts: {}, sessionBar: { days: 3 } })
-    expect(sessionBar().sources).toEqual(['manual', 'cli', 'mention'])
+    expect(sessionBar().sources).toEqual(['web', 'cli', 'mention'])
   })
 
   it('takes days 0 as "no age cutoff", not as a missing value', () => {