Restoring Emacs layout

When I work in EMACS I have a specific layout that I use. I have about five frames open each dedicated to some task. One will have three dired windows and an eshell window. Others will have project files open or source files. Restoring this layout is a pain whenever I have to restart emacs. So I decided to automate this layout restoration. I found revive.el that does almost what I wanted so I wrote some code that uses revive to save the state of all the frames that are currently open and then restore that state.

(defun emacs-save-layout ();TODO: handle eshell
  "save the frame and window layout to ~/.emacs-layout. Requires revive.el."
(interactive)
(let ((out-name (concat *HOME* "/.emacs-layout"))
      (frames (frame-list))
      (configs nil)
      (buffs (sorted-buffer-list))
      (filtered-buffs nil)
      (s-buffs nil))
  (dolist (b buffs)    
      (let ((file-name (buffer-file-name b)))
        (when (and file-name
                   (> (length file-name) 0))
          (setq filtered-buffs (cons file-name filtered-buffs)))))
  (when filtered-buffs (setq filtered-buffs (reverse filtered-buffs)))
  (dolist (frame frames)
    (select-frame frame)
    (setq configs (cons (current-window-configuration-printable) configs)))
  (setq configs (cons filtered-buffs configs))
  (write-region (with-output-to-string (prin1 configs)) nil out-name)))

(defun emacs-load-layout ();TODO: handle eshell buffers.
  "Load the layout saved by emacs-save-layout. Requires revive.el."
(interactive)
(let* ((in-name (concat *HOME* "/.emacs-layout"))
      (config-count 0)
      (frames (frame-list))
      (configs nil)
      (frame-count (length frames))
      (buffs nil))
  (with-temp-buffer
    (insert-file-contents-literally in-name)
    (setq buffs (read (current-buffer)))
    (setq configs (rest buffs))
    (setq buffs (first buffs)))
  (dolist (b buffs)
    (find-file-noselect b)
    (message "Loading buffer %s" b))
  (setq config-count (length configs))
  (message "Config count is %s" config-count)
  (unless (>= frame-count config-count)
    (dotimes (i (- config-count frame-count))
      (make-frame))
    (setq frames (frame-list))
    (setq frame-count (length frames))
    (message "frame-count is %s" frame-count))
  (defun it (lconfigs lframes)
            (when (and lconfigs lframes)
              (select-frame (first lframes))
              (restore-window-configuration (first lconfigs))
              (it (rest lconfigs) (rest lframes))))
  (it configs frames)))