[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":699},["ShallowReactive",2],{"guide-connect-ai-to-your-notes":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"authorKey":6,"body":7,"breadcrumb":648,"cta":649,"description":654,"draft":655,"extension":656,"eyebrow":657,"faq":658,"icon":683,"iconColor":684,"items":685,"meta":686,"navigation":687,"parent":688,"path":690,"published":691,"readingTime":692,"seo":693,"stem":696,"updated":697,"__hash__":698},"guides\u002Fguides\u002Fconnect-ai-to-your-notes.md","How to connect ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI assistants to your notes","steffen",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":628},"minimark",[10,14,17,26,31,107,111,130,133,136,159,163,168,171,185,188,192,195,208,215,219,222,337,347,351,354,402,405,425,429,432,458,461,465,468,474,480,486,490,527,531,539,542,546,572,576,596,600],[11,12,13],"p",{},"You ask ChatGPT or Claude about work, health, money, and what to cook. Some answers are worth keeping. Most of them end up in a long list of chats sorted by date, and the next chat starts from zero.",[11,15,16],{},"A notes app you can connect fixes both sides of that. Your assistant can answer from what you already wrote down, and it can save the good parts of a chat back into your notes, where you can find them again.",[11,18,19,20,25],{},"This guide explains how that works, which assistants support it, and where it falls short. We make ",[21,22,24],"a",{"href":23},"\u002F","Capacities",", so we use it for the examples. We also tell you when another app is the better choice.",[27,28,30],"h2",{"id":29},"the-short-answer","The short answer",[32,33,34,47],"table",{},[35,36,37],"thead",{},[38,39,40,44],"tr",{},[41,42,43],"th",{},"If you want to…",[41,45,46],{},"Do this",[48,49,50,63,74,85,96],"tbody",{},[38,51,52,56],{},[53,54,55],"td",{},"Ask ChatGPT questions about your notes",[53,57,58,59],{},"Add Capacities from ChatGPT's plugin directory. ",[21,60,62],{"href":61},"\u002Fconnect-chatgpt-to-your-notes","Guide",[38,64,65,68],{},[53,66,67],{},"Use your notes in Claude, Cowork, or Claude Code",[53,69,70,71],{},"Add Capacities from Claude's connector directory. ",[21,72,62],{"href":73},"\u002Fconnect-claude-to-your-notes",[38,75,76,79],{},[53,77,78],{},"Stop losing good answers in chat history",[53,80,81,82],{},"Ask the chat to save the essence as a short note. ",[21,83,62],{"href":84},"\u002Fsave-ai-chats-to-notes",[38,86,87,90],{},[53,88,89],{},"Give coding agents like Cursor or Claude Code your context",[53,91,92,93],{},"Connect them to the same space you write in. ",[21,94,62],{"href":95},"\u002Fsecond-brain-for-ai-agents",[38,97,98,101],{},[53,99,100],{},"Compare notes apps that work with AI",[53,102,103],{},[21,104,106],{"href":105},"\u002Fnote-taking-apps-for-ai","Note-taking apps for ChatGPT and Claude",[27,108,110],{"id":109},"what-connecting-your-notes-actually-means","What \"connecting your notes\" actually means",[11,112,113,114,118,119,118,122,125,126,129],{},"When you connect a notes app to an assistant, the assistant gets a small set of tools it can use while it answers you. In Capacities, those tools are things like ",[115,116,117],"em",{},"search the space",", ",[115,120,121],{},"read this note",[115,123,124],{},"create a page",", and ",[115,127,128],{},"save to today's note",".",[11,131,132],{},"You keep chatting the way you always do. When your question needs your notes, the assistant calls a tool, gets back the notes that match, and uses them in its answer. When you say \"save this\", it calls another tool and writes a note.",[11,134,135],{},"Three things are worth knowing:",[137,138,139,147,153],"ul",{},[140,141,142,146],"li",{},[143,144,145],"strong",{},"It is not an upload."," Your notes stay in your notes app. The assistant reads only what it looks up for the question in front of it.",[140,148,149,152],{},[143,150,151],{},"You choose the space."," When you sign in, you pick one space. The assistant cannot reach any other space.",[140,154,155,158],{},[143,156,157],{},"It runs on an open standard."," The technical name is MCP, the Model Context Protocol. ChatGPT, Claude, Le Chat, Perplexity, Cursor, and many other tools speak it. So one notes app can work with all of them, and your notes stay put if you switch assistants.",[27,160,162],{"id":161},"the-two-jobs-asking-your-notes-and-saving-to-them","The two jobs: asking your notes, and saving to them",[164,165,167],"h3",{"id":166},"asking-your-notes","Asking your notes",[11,169,170],{},"This is the job most people search for. You have notes, and you want an assistant to answer from them instead of from the internet.",[137,172,173,176,179,182],{},[140,174,175],{},"\"What did Jonas recommend for Lisbon?\"",[140,177,178],{},"\"Summarize what I wrote about the renovation budget this year.\"",[140,180,181],{},"\"Which books have I finished that mention habits? Make a table.\"",[140,183,184],{},"\"I have a call with Maya at three. What did we decide last time?\"",[11,186,187],{},"The answer is only as good as what the assistant can find. Notes with clear titles and types help a lot. A note called \"Call with Maya\" with Maya linked as a person is easy to find. A page called \"Untitled 14\" is not.",[164,189,191],{"id":190},"saving-to-your-notes","Saving to your notes",[11,193,194],{},"This is the job most people do not know they can do. At the end of a good chat, you tell the assistant to keep the part that matters.",[196,197],"chat-to-note",{":lines":198,"app":199,"caption":200,"noteColor":201,"noteIcon":202,"noteLabel":203,"noteTitle":204,"noteType":205,"prompt":206,"reply":207},"[\"Most active funds trail the index after fees over 15 years\",\"Costs compound, so a 1% fee is a big share of returns\",\"Linked to Money, saved to today's note\"]","chatgpt","The chat is where you think. The note is what you keep.","amber","i-ph-lightbulb-duotone","Created in Capacities","Why index funds beat stock picking for most people","Atomic note","That explanation of index funds finally made sense. Save the essence as an atomic note in Capacities, linked to Money.","Saved an atomic note called \"Why index funds beat stock picking for most people\" with three key points, and linked it to Money.",[11,209,210,211,214],{},"A short note like this is easier to find and reuse than a whole chat transcript. Our guide to ",[21,212,213],{"href":84},"saving AI chats as notes"," shows prompts that work and a weekly routine.",[27,216,218],{"id":217},"which-assistants-can-connect","Which assistants can connect",[11,220,221],{},"Capacities works with any assistant that supports MCP. These are the most common, checked in October 2026. Plan rules on the assistant's side change often, so check there before you buy.",[32,223,224,237],{},[35,225,226],{},[38,227,228,231,234],{},[41,229,230],{},"Assistant",[41,232,233],{},"How you connect",[41,235,236],{},"Notes",[48,238,239,250,261,272,286,297,307,316,327],{},[38,240,241,244,247],{},[53,242,243],{},"ChatGPT",[53,245,246],{},"Plugin directory (formerly app directory)",[53,248,249],{},"OpenAI says availability depends on your plan, workspace, and region.",[38,251,252,255,258],{},[53,253,254],{},"Claude, Claude Desktop, Cowork",[53,256,257],{},"Connector directory",[53,259,260],{},"Directory connectors are available on the free plan too.",[38,262,263,266,269],{},[53,264,265],{},"Claude Code",[53,267,268],{},"One terminal command",[53,270,271],{},"Same connection as Claude, in your terminal.",[38,273,274,277,280],{},[53,275,276],{},"Cursor, VS Code, Codex",[53,278,279],{},"Add the server in settings",[53,281,282,283,129],{},"For developers. See the ",[21,284,285],{"href":95},"AI second brain guide",[38,287,288,291,294],{},[53,289,290],{},"Le Chat (Mistral)",[53,292,293],{},"Custom connector",[53,295,296],{},"Mistral lists connectors on its free plan.",[38,298,299,302,304],{},[53,300,301],{},"Perplexity",[53,303,293],{},[53,305,306],{},"Custom connectors need a paid Perplexity plan.",[38,308,309,312,314],{},[53,310,311],{},"Grok",[53,313,293],{},[53,315],{},[38,317,318,321,324],{},[53,319,320],{},"Gemini",[53,322,323],{},"Gemini CLI, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Spark",[53,325,326],{},"The regular Gemini web and phone app cannot add custom connectors.",[38,328,329,332,334],{},[53,330,331],{},"LM Studio",[53,333,279],{},[53,335,336],{},"Lets local models on your computer use your notes.",[11,338,339,340,346],{},"The ",[21,341,345],{"href":342,"rel":343},"https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.capacities.io\u002Freference\u002Fai-chat-connectors",[344],"nofollow","setup guide"," has step-by-step instructions for each of these, plus Raycast, ClickUp, Langdock, Manus, Dust, and others.",[27,348,350],{"id":349},"what-the-assistant-can-do-and-what-it-cannot","What the assistant can do, and what it cannot",[11,352,353],{},"Here is what a connected assistant can do in a Capacities space today:",[137,355,356,366,372,378,384,390,396],{},[140,357,358,361,362,365],{},[143,359,360],{},"Search"," by keywords and topics, and ",[143,363,364],{},"list"," notes by type, tag, or collection.",[140,367,368,371],{},[143,369,370],{},"Read"," whole notes, including their properties, such as a book's author or a meeting's date.",[140,373,374,377],{},[143,375,376],{},"Create"," pages, tasks, and objects of any type you have, such as a Book, a Person, or a Recipe, with their properties filled in.",[140,379,380,383],{},[143,381,382],{},"Edit"," existing notes: change properties, add to the end, and add, rewrite, or delete paragraphs.",[140,385,386,389],{},[143,387,388],{},"Save"," text to today's daily note.",[140,391,392,395],{},[143,393,394],{},"Upload"," images and PDFs you share in the chat.",[140,397,398,401],{},[143,399,400],{},"Link"," to notes in its replies, so you can open them in Capacities.",[11,403,404],{},"And here is what it cannot do yet. We would rather you know before you pay.",[137,406,407,413,419],{},[140,408,409,412],{},[143,410,411],{},"It cannot change the structure of your space."," It can fill in the properties a type already has, but it cannot create a new object type or add a property to one. You do that in Capacities.",[140,414,415,418],{},[143,416,417],{},"It is weak at \"read everything\"."," A prompt like \"go through all 400 of my notes and count the flights\" works poorly. Ask it to search or list first, such as \"list my Trip objects from this year\", then read those.",[140,420,421,424],{},[143,422,423],{},"It works on one space per connection."," If you keep work and personal notes in two spaces, you add two connections.",[27,426,428],{"id":427},"built-in-ai-memory-is-not-the-same-thing","Built-in AI memory is not the same thing",[11,430,431],{},"ChatGPT and Claude both have memory, and both have Projects. They are useful, and they solve a different problem.",[137,433,434,440,446,452],{},[140,435,436,439],{},[143,437,438],{},"Memory keeps facts about you, chosen by the AI."," OpenAI's help page says memory \"does not retain every detail from every conversation. ChatGPT decides which available information is relevant.\" Claude's memory is a summary of your conversations, updated every 24 hours, focused on things like your role and preferences.",[140,441,442,445],{},[143,443,444],{},"You cannot open it like a notebook."," There is no page for \"what I learned about index funds\" that you can read, edit, and link to your Money page.",[140,447,448,451],{},[143,449,450],{},"It stays inside one app."," If you use ChatGPT at home and Claude at work, each one remembers a different half of you.",[140,453,454,457],{},[143,455,456],{},"Projects hold files for one effort."," A ChatGPT project holds 5 files on Free and 25 on Plus. That is good for a single project, and it is not a place for everything you know.",[11,459,460],{},"Your notes are the opposite. You decide what goes in, every note is a page you can open, and every connected assistant reads the same notes. Use memory for your preferences. Use notes for what you know.",[27,462,464],{"id":463},"why-the-shape-of-your-notes-matters-to-an-ai","Why the shape of your notes matters to an AI",[11,466,467],{},"An assistant can only use what it can find and understand. Three things make a real difference.",[11,469,470,473],{},[143,471,472],{},"Types tell the AI what a note is."," In Capacities, a note can be a Book, a Person, a Meeting, or any type you create, and each type has its own properties. When you ask for \"the books I finished this year\", the assistant lists your Book objects and checks the status. In a folder of loose pages, it has to guess from titles.",[11,475,476,479],{},[143,477,478],{},"Links give it context."," When a meeting note links to Maya and to the launch plan, the assistant can follow those links. It learns who Maya is and what the launch is without you explaining it again.",[11,481,482,485],{},[143,483,484],{},"A daily note gives it somewhere to put things."," \"Save this to today\" always works, even when neither of you knows yet where the note belongs. You sort it out later, or never.",[27,487,489],{"id":488},"privacy-and-control","Privacy and control",[137,491,492,498,509,515,521],{},[140,493,494,497],{},[143,495,496],{},"One space per connection."," The assistant reaches only the space you choose when you sign in.",[140,499,500,503,504,508],{},[143,501,502],{},"You can see and remove every connection."," They are listed under ",[505,506,507],"code",{},"Settings > AI Assistant"," in Capacities. Removing a connection in Capacities does not delete it in the AI app, so remove it there too.",[140,510,511,514],{},[143,512,513],{},"Version history on every note."," If an assistant changes something you did not want, restore an earlier version.",[140,516,517,520],{},[143,518,519],{},"The AI app's rules apply to what it reads."," ChatGPT and Claude have their own data settings, including whether chats are used to train models. Check those settings.",[140,522,523,526],{},[143,524,525],{},"Your notes are stored in the EU."," Capacities is made by Capacities Labs GmbH in Freiburg, Germany.",[27,528,530],{"id":529},"what-it-costs","What it costs",[11,532,533,534,538],{},"Connecting an assistant is part of ",[21,535,537],{"href":536},"\u002Fpricing","Capacities Pro",". You can build your notes on the free plan first and add Pro when you want to connect.",[11,540,541],{},"The AI itself is paid for by the app you chat in. Chats in ChatGPT or Claude do not use your Capacities AI budget. If you already pay for ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro, you do not pay for that AI twice.",[27,543,545],{"id":544},"guides-for-each-assistant","Guides for each assistant",[137,547,548,554,560,566],{},[140,549,550,553],{},[21,551,552],{"href":61},"Connect ChatGPT to your notes",": for people who use ChatGPT every day and want it to remember what matters.",[140,555,556,559],{},[21,557,558],{"href":73},"Connect Claude to your notes",": for the Claude app, Cowork, and Claude Code.",[140,561,562,565],{},[21,563,564],{"href":95},"Build an AI second brain for your agents",": for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and other agents.",[140,567,568,571],{},[21,569,570],{"href":84},"Save AI chats as notes you will find again",": the routine, with prompts you can copy.",[27,573,575],{"id":574},"who-should-not-use-this","Who should not use this",[137,577,578,584,590],{},[140,579,580,583],{},[143,581,582],{},"If you want an agent to work on plain files on your disk."," Coding agents such as Claude Code can read and rewrite a folder of Markdown files directly. If that is how you work, Obsidian or Logseq fit better. Capacities exports to Markdown, but it is not a file-based app.",[140,585,586,589],{},[143,587,588],{},"If your team needs shared AI search."," Capacities is for one person. A team wiki such as Notion, Confluence, or Slite fits a shared knowledge base better.",[140,591,592,595],{},[143,593,594],{},"If you do not want AI near your notes at all."," That is fine. Capacities works without AI, and you can hide AI in the app.",[27,597,599],{"id":598},"how-we-wrote-this-guide","How we wrote this guide",[137,601,602,608,614,620],{},[140,603,604,607],{},[143,605,606],{},"We make Capacities."," The examples use it, and the limits section is ours to keep honest.",[140,609,610,613],{},[143,611,612],{},"Facts come from official sources",", read in October 2026: our own docs, OpenAI's and Anthropic's help centers, and each assistant's connector documentation. Plan rules on the assistant's side change often.",[140,615,616,619],{},[143,617,618],{},"The memory comparison quotes the vendors' own help pages."," We link them so you can check.",[140,621,622,623,627],{},"If something here is wrong or out of date, email ",[21,624,626],{"href":625},"mailto:team@capacities.io","team@capacities.io"," and we will fix it.",{"title":629,"searchDepth":630,"depth":630,"links":631},"",2,[632,633,634,639,640,641,642,643,644,645,646,647],{"id":29,"depth":630,"text":30},{"id":109,"depth":630,"text":110},{"id":161,"depth":630,"text":162,"children":635},[636,638],{"id":166,"depth":637,"text":167},3,{"id":190,"depth":637,"text":191},{"id":217,"depth":630,"text":218},{"id":349,"depth":630,"text":350},{"id":427,"depth":630,"text":428},{"id":463,"depth":630,"text":464},{"id":488,"depth":630,"text":489},{"id":529,"depth":630,"text":530},{"id":544,"depth":630,"text":545},{"id":574,"depth":630,"text":575},{"id":598,"depth":630,"text":599},"Connect AI to your notes",{"heading":650,"subheading":651,"secondaryLabel":652,"secondaryTo":653},"Give your AI something to work from","Start your notes for free. Connect ChatGPT, Claude, or another assistant with Pro.","The AI knowledge base","\u002Fai-knowledge-base","Let the AI you already use answer from your own notes and save what is worth keeping back into them. What a connection is, which assistants work, what they can and cannot do, and how to stay in control.",false,"md","AI and your notes",[659,662,665,668,671,674,677,680],{"question":660,"answer":661},"Can ChatGPT read my notes?","Yes, if your notes app has a connector for it. In Capacities, you add Capacities from ChatGPT's plugin directory and sign in. ChatGPT can then search your notes, read them, and save new ones to the space you picked. The [ChatGPT guide](\u002Fconnect-chatgpt-to-your-notes) explains the details.",{"question":663,"answer":664},"Can Claude read and edit my notes?","Yes. Capacities is in Claude's connector directory, which works in the Claude app, Claude Desktop, Cowork, and Claude Code. Claude can search, read, create, and edit notes in the space you connect. See the [Claude guide](\u002Fconnect-claude-to-your-notes).",{"question":666,"answer":667},"What is MCP?","MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It is an open standard that lets an AI assistant use tools in other apps, such as \"search my notes\" or \"create a page\". When an app says it has a connector, an app, or an MCP server for ChatGPT or Claude, it usually means MCP. You do not need to know how it works to use it.",{"question":669,"answer":670},"Does connecting an AI use my Capacities AI budget?","No. When you chat in ChatGPT or Claude, you pay for the AI through that app. The Capacities AI budget is only for the AI features inside Capacities.",{"question":672,"answer":673},"Can the AI see all of my notes?","A connection reaches one space, the one you pick when you sign in. Inside that space, the assistant searches and reads what it needs for your question. It does not copy your whole space. You can remove the connection at any time under Settings in Capacities.",{"question":675,"answer":676},"What if the AI changes something I did not want?","Every object keeps a version history. Open it, pick an earlier version, and restore it. Many AI apps also let you allow reading only, or ask before each change.",{"question":678,"answer":679},"Will my notes be used to train AI models?","That depends on the AI app and your settings in it. Capacities does not decide what ChatGPT or Claude does with what it reads. Check the data settings in the app you connect. Our [AI privacy page](https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.capacities.io\u002Fmore\u002Fai-privacy) explains how Capacities handles AI.",{"question":681,"answer":682},"Can I still use my own API key in Capacities?","No. Bring your own key was removed in 2026. A connector is the replacement: you keep your own assistant and subscription, and it works with your notes directly. [Why we made that change](\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-we-are-introducing-pro-plus).","i-ph-plugs-connected-duotone","violet",null,{},true,{"name":689,"path":653,"backLabel":689},"AI knowledge base","\u002Fguides\u002Fconnect-ai-to-your-notes","2026-10-09","12 min read",{"title":694,"description":695},"Connect ChatGPT, Claude, and Other AI to Your Notes (2026 Guide)","How to let ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Le Chat, and other assistants read and write your notes. What a connector can do, what it cannot, privacy, and cost.","guides\u002Fconnect-ai-to-your-notes","2026-10-12","pkindJBD_okC1oOIGvhqtvwhyyY0UKFzsYyQfE8tjzI",1791910181996]