Connect Life Note to your AI

Your journal is where you think most honestly. Connect it to the AI you already use — in a chat app or in your terminal — so it can draw on your real reflections, wisdom, and goals. Read-only, private, and only when you ask.

Two ways to connect

In a chat app — no install

Add Life Note to Claude or ChatGPT and sign in once. Best for most people.

In your terminal or coding agent

The lifenote command-line tool, for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Best for developers.

Connect in Claude or ChatGPT

In Claude (claude.ai)

Open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL below, then Connect and sign in with your Life Note account.

In ChatGPT (Pro and above)

Open Settings → Connectors → add a custom connector with the same URL, then sign in.

Life Note connector URL:

https://mcp.mylifenote.ai/mcp

Adding a custom connector may require a paid Claude or ChatGPT plan. It also works with Gemini Enterprise and other MCP-compatible assistants.

What to ask — start here

Once connected, just talk normally. Not sure where to begin? Match it to how you're feeling:

When you're feeling down

“Look back through my journal and remind me of my small wins and the moments I actually grew — evidence I'm further along than I feel.”

When you're angry or hurt

“I'm worked up about this. What have I written before about this person or situation — and what usually helps me settle?”

When you want clarity

“Across my recent entries, what are my top recurring patterns — and the triggers behind them?”

When you want to grow

“What blind spot keeps showing up in my writing — and what have my mentors said that speaks to it?”

When you're facing a decision

“I'm torn. Based on what I've written and my Life Goal, what do I actually value here?”

When you feel adrift

“What am I working on right now, and where am I drifting from this year's focus?”

Read-only and private. Your AI can read your journal, wisdom, practices, and goals. It cannot write to your journal, change your settings, or access anyone else's data. Your sign-in token is stored securely — never in plain text — and you can disconnect any time from Settings.

For developers — the CLI

Prefer the terminal, or work in a coding agent? Install the lifenote CLI for the same journal, at the command line.

Install & sign in

Requires Python 3.10+. We recommend pipx:

pipx install lifenote
lifenote auth login

Connect it to your coding agent

Claude Code — run this. Cursor and Codex use the same pattern; for Claude Desktop, add it to your MCP config.

claude mcp add lifenote -- lifenote mcp

Teach your agent when to use it

Install the bundled skill so your agent knows when to reach for your journal — and when not to:

lifenote skills install

Or use it straight from the terminal

Search your journal and pipe the results into any agent:

lifenote today
lifenote search "anxiety about launch"
lifenote search "burnout" --json | claude "summarize the patterns"

What your agent can do

14 read-only tools span your journal, saved wisdom, mentor conversations, practices & quests, and life direction — so every scenario above works from the terminal too. Power-user asks:

“Cross-reference my journal and my saved wisdom on burnout — where do they agree, where do they diverge?”
“Pull my last month of entries and draft a weekly-review summary I can paste into my journal.”
“Given my Life Goal and this year's focus, what have I actually made progress on — with evidence from my entries?”

Learn more

GitHub — docs & source →

Setup for each agent, all commands, the full tool list, and the source code.

Install from PyPI →

The published lifenote package.