Put AI to work with memost!
Starting with memost 0.40.0, AI apps can work with your notes directly. No more copying a note into an AI chat and pasting the answer back. Say “summarize yesterday’s meeting note” and the AI finds that note in memost, reads it, and writes the summary straight into it.
This post covers what’s new, how to set it up, and three things worth trying right away.
What’s new
memost now supports MCP (Model Context Protocol), the standard way for AI apps to use features of other programs. In memost 0.40.0 for Mac and Windows you can connect these AI apps:
- Claude — Claude Desktop and Claude Code
- The ChatGPT desktop app
- The Codex CLI
A connected AI can search and read notes in the spaces you allow, create new notes, and edit or add to the paragraphs of a note. It also handles tags, tasks and daily notes. Deleting notes or moving them to the trash is not open to the AI.
The connection stays on this computer. memost doesn’t open anything to the internet; an AI app running on the same computer talks to the memost app. So it works while memost is running and the space is open.
How to set it up
1. Turn on the AI connection
In memost, go to Settings ▸ AI connection and switch on Turn on the AI connection on this device.
2. Add memost to your AI app
Pick the one that matches your AI app.
- Claude Desktop — click Add to Claude Desktop on the same screen, then restart Claude Desktop.
- Claude Code — click Copy command, paste it into Terminal and run it.
- ChatGPT desktop and Codex — run the command below once in Terminal. The ChatGPT desktop app and the Codex CLI share one settings file (
~/.codex/config.toml), so this connects both.
codex mcp add memost -- "/Applications/memost.app/Contents/Helpers/memost-mcp"
If you don’t have the Codex CLI, add these two lines to ~/.codex/config.toml yourself:
[mcp_servers.memost]
command = "/Applications/memost.app/Contents/Helpers/memost-mcp"
These paths are for the Mac. On Windows, Settings ▸ AI connection shows the Claude Code command and the Codex/ChatGPT command with the right path for that PC, ready to copy.
3. Allow the spaces the AI may use
Turning on the AI connection doesn’t open all your notes. You allow each space separately. Right-click the space icon at the top of the sidebar, open Space Info, and under AI connection switch on Let AI apps use this space. For Access, choose Read only or Read and write.
4. Approve the first connection
The first time an AI app connects, memost shows an AI connection request. Check which program is asking and click Allow. To allow it just for now, choose Allow until memost quits. You can remove a program at any time from the Connected programs list in Settings ▸ AI connection.
Now just ask in your AI app the way you normally would, for example “find last week’s meeting notes in memost”.
✨ AI command — send from inside memost
You can also send a request without leaving memost. Click ✨ in the toolbar above a note, or the ✨ in the toolbar that appears when you select text, to open the AI command window. Type your request, pick an AI app under Send to, and click Send. The AI finds and reads the note you’re looking at and the text you selected. The picture at the top of this post is that window.
- Save requests you use often and give them a shortcut. Select some text, press the shortcut, and the request goes out.
- Choose Claude Code (background) or Codex CLI (background) under Send to and the request runs right there without switching apps; progress and the answer show in the ✨ window.
Try these
Every example below was run for real in a test space.
Summarize
Open the notes you jotted down after a meeting and ask:
Summarize this note in three lines and put it at the top. List the to-dos by person.
The AI read the note and added a summary callout at the top. The original notes below stay as they were.
The same works for long articles, lecture notes, or several notes at once. You can widen the scope too: “Summarize the notes I changed in the last 7 days and add it to today’s daily note.”
Write
Have the AI turn your notes into something you’ll send to other people:
Using the “November book club planning” note, write an announcement for our group chat as a new note. Keep it friendly.
The AI picked what mattered from the meeting and drafted the announcement in a new note, with a link back to the original meeting note at the bottom. Edit what you don’t like yourself, or ask again: “Make the second paragraph shorter.”
Translate into an interlinear text
Handy for language learning or reading in another language. Ask for an interlinear translation, with each translated paragraph placed right under the original.
Put a Korean translation right under each paragraph of this note, in blue.
The original stays untouched and only the translations are inserted, so you can compare the two languages at a glance. To move a whole note into another language, ask “Make a copy of this note translated into English.” The original stays as it is; the AI makes a copy that keeps the look, cover and callouts included, and translates it.
More ideas
- “Add ‘dentist at 3’ as a task to today’s daily note.”
- “Collect the unfinished tasks from notes tagged ‘project’.”
- “Find notes related to this one and add links to them.”
You can undo what the AI changed
The AI’s edits go into the note’s version history just like yours, marked as AI edits. In an open note, ⌘Z (Ctrl+Z on Windows) undoes them right away. If the AI edits a note while you’re editing it too, your changes aren’t overwritten; the two are merged.
What goes to the AI: Note content an AI app reads is sent to the servers of the company that provides that AI (Anthropic for Claude, OpenAI for ChatGPT and Codex). memost’s encryption does not protect this path. Don’t allow spaces that hold notes you’d rather the AI not see. Organization spaces can’t be connected to AI yet.
The AI connection is available in memost 0.40.0 or later for Mac and Windows. Get the latest version from Download.