Your notes, inside Claude.
Connect CraftNote to Claude.ai and your meetings, lectures, and voice memos become a knowledge base Claude can search. Ask Claude to summarize last week's standup, pull action items from a recording, or find that thing you said in October — without ever leaving the chat.
Overview
What is the CraftNote connector?
Claude supports Model Context Protocol connectors — secure bridges that let Claude read data from apps you already use. The CraftNote connector gives Claude read-only access to your notes so it can search, cite, and reason over them while you chat. You authenticate once with your CraftNote account, and you can revoke access from either side at any time.
What Claude can do with it
Find notes by keyword or topic, pull a full transcript, surface action items across meetings, summarize a recording, and cross-reference notes from different days — all grounded in your actual notes, with sources Claude can quote back to you.
Read-only by design
The connector only exposes search and read endpoints. Claude cannot create, edit, delete, or share notes on your behalf. Raw audio files and account or billing data stay off-limits.
Setup · 2 minutes
Connect it to Claude.ai
You need a Claude.ai account and a CraftNote account. Both have free tiers — if you don't have CraftNote yet, start one here.
Open the Claude connectors directory
In Claude.ai, click your profile, then go to Settings → Connectors. Choose Browse connectors and search for "CraftNote". Click the CraftNote card to start the connection.
Don't see CraftNote yet? Make sure you're on a workspace with connectors enabled.
Sign in to CraftNote and approve access
Claude opens the CraftNote consent screen on mcp.craftnoteapp.com. Sign in with the same email you use for the CraftNote app, review the requested permissions (read-only access to your notes), and approve.
CraftNote never shares your password with Claude. The connection uses OAuth 2.1 with short-lived access tokens.
Ask Claude about your notes
Open a new chat in Claude. Ask things like "Find the meeting where we decided on the pricing change" or "Summarize my last three product reviews and list every action item."Claude will call CraftNote, fetch the relevant notes, and answer with citations you can click.
Tip: Claude works best when you give it specifics — dates, project names, or the topic of the meeting. CraftNote's search is full-text across transcripts.
Permissions
What Claude can and can't see
We designed the connector to give Claude exactly the context it needs — and nothing more. Everything below is enforced at the API layer, not just the UI.
What Claude can access
Read-onlyFrom notes you own — plus notes another CraftNote user has shared directly with you.
- Note metadata — title, created/updated date, folder, tags.
- Transcript text from your recordings, voice memos, and uploads.
- AI summary and key takeaways CraftNote generated for the note.
- Action items, todos, flashcards, and quizzes extracted from the note.
- Full-text search across every note you own and every note shared with you.
What Claude can't access
Out of scope, intentionally.
- No edits or deletes. The connector exposes no write endpoints.
- No other users' notes — only your own and notes shared directly with you.
- No raw audio or video files — only the transcript and derived content.
- No account, billing, or subscription data.
- No training on your notes. CraftNote does not use the content of your notes to train models.
Tools
The 6 tools Claude can call
The CraftNote connector exposes six read-only MCP tools. Claude picks the right one based on what you ask — you don't have to name them explicitly.
Find notes by keyword, topic, or date
Full-text search across every note you own. Returns titles, snippets, and IDs Claude can fetch in full.
Read a single note in full
Pulls the full transcript, summary, action items, and metadata for one note by ID.
Read several notes at once
Batched fetch when Claude needs to cross-reference multiple notes (e.g. "summarize my last three meetings").
See your folder structure
Returns folder names and IDs so Claude can scope a search like "find this in the Work folder."
List outstanding action items
Surfaces every action item Claude can answer "what do I owe people this week?" with citations to the source note.
Semantic search over your notes
Vector retrieval for fuzzy questions ("what did I say about pricing?") where keywords won't catch it. Owned notes only — shared notes are not indexed yet.
Control
How to disconnect
You can revoke the connection from either Claude or CraftNote at any time. Either side takes effect immediately — Claude can no longer call CraftNote until you reconnect.
From Claude.ai
Settings → Connectors → CraftNote → Disconnect
Removes the connector from this Claude workspace. Future chats won't have access to your notes until you reconnect.
From CraftNote
Settings → Connected Apps → Claude → Revoke
Revokes the OAuth token CraftNote issued to Claude. Any in-flight Claude requests fail immediately and Claude is asked to reconnect.
Privacy & support
CraftNote treats notes accessed through the connector under the same Privacy Policy that covers the rest of the product. We don't train models on your notes, we don't share them with third parties, and we keep an audit log of every connector request so you can review what Claude has read.
Have a question about the connector, want to report a bug, or run into a permission issue? Email the team — we read every message.
Troubleshooting
Common questions
If you hit something that isn't covered here, email support@craftnote.com and we'll dig in.
I don't see CraftNote when I search the Claude connectors directory.
CraftNote needs to be enabled on your Claude.ai workspace. The directory only shows connectors your workspace admin has allowed.
On a free or personal Claude account: open Settings → Connectors → Browse — if CraftNote isn't listed, the workspace doesn't have third-party connectors enabled. Workspace admins can turn them on in Claude's admin settings.
Claude says "permission denied" or "couldn't access CraftNote" after I authorized.
The OAuth token issued during sign-in expired or was revoked. The fix is to reconnect:
In Claude: Settings → Connectors → CraftNote → Disconnect, then add the connector again from Browse connectors. You'll go through the CraftNote consent screen one more time, and Claude will get a fresh token.
Access tokens are short-lived by design — if you don't use the connector for a while, you may need to reconnect.
How do I revoke Claude's access to my notes?
You can revoke from either side and it takes effect immediately:
From Claude: Settings → Connectors → CraftNote → Disconnect
From CraftNote: Settings → Connected Apps → Claude → Revoke
Either action invalidates the OAuth token. Any in-flight Claude request fails and Claude is asked to reconnect. We also keep an audit log of every connector request so you can review what Claude has read.
Does Claude have access to notes shared with me by other CraftNote users?
Yes — the same notes you can read in the CraftNote app. search_notes, get_note, get_notes, and list_action_items all cover notes you own and notes another CraftNote user has shared directly with you. Each result carries an ownership: "owned" | "shared" tag so Claude (and you) can tell which is which.
Semantic search (ask_notes) is owned-only today because we only generate vector embeddings for your own notes. We may extend this to shared notes in a future release; until then, semantic queries against shared content silently fall back to zero results.
Does Claude get the audio files of my recordings?
No. The connector exposes the transcript, summary, and metadata of each note, but never the raw audio or video file. Claude can read what you said; it can't download or play the original recording.