aNotepad MCP: your online notes, searchable from a chat

Read, search, write and organize your aNotepad online notes from a conversation, using 22 tools on aNotepad's own MCP server. ContextGate connects it to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor; if your notes should stay exactly as you wrote them, switch off the writing tools and keep search.

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Open your aNotepad notes to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

  1. 1Click Connect aNotepad free and sign in with your aNotepad account.
  2. 2aNotepad's 22 tools are listed after you connect, all on. Keep the read and search tools, and switch off the ones that write or reorganize notes if your AI app shouldn't change them.
  3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
  4. 4Ask your AI app to find your aNotepad notes from last week's planning call, then open Activity to see the search.

Note-taking from your AI app

  • Search your aNotepad notes for something you wrote down months ago.
  • Read a note into the chat as context for a question.
  • Write a new note with a summary of the conversation.
  • Organize notes without opening aNotepad.

Keeping your notes intact

  • Switch off writing and organizing tools for read-only access; they're hidden and refused if called.
  • A policy can block passwords or keys saved in a note from being passed into a chat.
  • Activity records every note your AI app reads or writes.

What you get with aNotepad and ContextGate

  • Your AI apps can use aNotepadClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach aNotepad through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
  • You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any aNotepad tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
  • Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

aNotepad tools

aNotepad's own MCP server shows its tools once you sign in. When you connect it, they are listed and synced in your workspace.