Connect Memol to Claude — Let AI Save and Search Your Notes via MCP

"I want to keep the useful bits from my Claude conversations as notes I can revisit." "When I ask Claude to 'find last week's meeting notes,' I want it to search my notes."

That's exactly what the MCP integration does. Memol supports MCP (Model Context Protocol), so AI assistants like Claude Desktop and Cursor can search, read, create, and edit your Memol notes directly — free on every plan, including Free.

This post explains what MCP is and walks through connecting Memol to Claude.

What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?

MCP is an open standard from Anthropic for connecting AI assistants to external tools. Just as USB-C standardized how devices and cables connect, MCP standardizes how AI connects to outside services (notes, calendars, databases, and more).

Until now, an AI could only work with information inside the current conversation. Connect an MCP-enabled tool and the AI can act on your real data.

Connect Memol as an MCP server and Claude can:

• 🔍 Search across your notes by keyword
• 📄 Read the full text of a specific note
• ✍️ Create new notes
• 📝 Update existing notes

In short: Claude gets read/write access to your second brain.

What you can do with it

1. Turn a conversation into a note instantly

After a long brainstorm with Claude, just say: "Save this conclusion to Memol as a note called 'New business ideas.'" No more copy-pasting and reformatting out of the chat.

2. Pull up past notes and keep going

"Search Memol for last month's marketing meeting notes, then let's continue working on the action items we decided." Claude searches Memol, reads the content, and picks up where you left off.

3. Let AI organize scattered notes

"Read the notes in my Memol 'Customer support' folder and summarize the top 5 most common questions." Your accumulated notes become something the AI can summarize and structure.

Setup (5 steps, copy-paste ready)

1. Create an API key

In your Memol workspace, go to Settings → API / MCP, enter a key name (e.g. "Claude Desktop"), and click Create. Copy the key shown (it won't be shown again).

2. Open the Claude Desktop config file

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Create it if it doesn't exist.

3. Paste the config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memol": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://memol.app/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with the key from step 1 (it starts with memol_).

4. Restart Claude Desktop

Quit it completely, then reopen — Memol's tools will be recognized.

5. Try it

Just ask in plain language: "Search Memol for last week's meeting notes" or "Create a note called 'Shopping list' in Memol."

Full setup and troubleshooting is on the MCP integration help page. Other MCP-capable clients like Cursor connect the same way.

Connecting from claude.ai (web)

Claude Desktop and Cursor connect with an API key (Bearer token) as shown above, but claude.ai's custom connectors don't support static API keys. Instead, you just sign in and approve via OAuth — no API key needed.

It's simple:

1. In Memol, go to Settings → API / MCP and copy the "This workspace's URL" (https://memol.app/api/mcp/<workspaceId>) for the workspace you want to connect.
2. In claude.ai, open Settings → Add connector → Custom connector and paste that URL.
3. On the Memol approval screen, pick the permission (read-only / read & write) and click Approve.

The key point: each workspace has its own URL. If you use multiple workspaces, add each one's URL from its settings and they show up as separate connectors in claude.ai — the same "one connection = one workspace" model Notion and Slack use. The approval screen is automatically locked to the workspace that matches the URL, so there's no mixing them up.

Pricing

The MCP integration is free on every plan, including Free. You can create up to 5 API keys per user.

Summary

With Memol's MCP integration, Claude goes from "someone you talk to" to "a partner that can read and write your knowledge."

• Capture the output of your Claude conversations straight into Memol
• Let Claude search and surface notes you saved long ago
• Hand "writing" and "finding" to the AI so you can focus on thinking

Memol is free for up to 5 members, and the MCP integration is free too. Create one API key and try asking Claude to "make a note in Memol."

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