Connect Memol to Claude — Let AI Save and Search Your Notes via MCP
Search, create, and edit your Memol notes directly from Claude Desktop or Cursor. A step-by-step guide to the MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration, with copy-paste config. Free on every plan.
"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.
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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