Can you imagine telling Claude, without opening any app: “note that I need to call Marta to talk about her new contract,” and having that thought land exactly where it should, in your FacileThings inbox? Or asking it mid-morning: “what’s pending on the website project?” and getting your actual next actions back? Or sitting down on a Sunday afternoon and letting your assistant walk you through your weekly review, conversationally? 1
FacileThings’ new MCP server is a bridge that connects your GTD system directly to Claude, ChatGPT, or any other LLM compatible with the Model Context Protocol, so you can capture, organize, and review your life and work using natural language.
This isn’t just a connection to your data. The server comes with a set of instructions on how an assistant should behave inside a GTD system managed with FacileThings: what capturing means, what clarifying means, how the tickler file works, what sets an action apart from a project, how areas of focus and goals relate to whatever you’re working on, and so on. That way, before telling you which list something belongs in, or whether something is an action or a project, the assistant can consult these guidelines instead of improvising. 2
We’ve also built in safety instructions, such as never permanently deleting anything without your explicit confirmation, always choosing to move something to trash rather than delete it, and asking rather than guessing when it isn’t clear which list a captured item belongs in.
The goal is an assistant that knows FacileThings and respects the GTD methodology, rather than one that simply executes literal commands against a database.
We’re launching this first version straight into public beta, which means every FacileThings user already has access.
This first version includes a good number of tools for capturing, reviewing, and organizing your system, but it doesn’t yet cover all of FacileThings’ capabilities 3. We’ll keep filling it out based on how you actually use it. So we encourage you to try what we already have and tell us what’s missing or what could be improved through the app’s Support system.
Here’s an example of a session with Claude. On the right, you can see how the new Beta app reacts automatically to the changes.
1 This last question is the most ambitious one, but in upcoming versions we’ll add specific prompts to guide you through clarifying your inbox and doing your weekly review, so conversations like these turn into a step-by-step guided flow.
2 Important note: the fact that these guidelines exist doesn’t mean the assistant always consults them on its own initiative. Depending on the LLM you’re using, it may not turn to them automatically and may only do so when you explicitly ask it to. So at first, you’ll likely need to be the one telling it how you want it to do things (for example, asking it to check FacileThings’ guidelines before deciding which list something belongs in, or telling it what you exactly expect from specific requests). Usually, once you tell it, the assistant will remember that way of working for future conversations, so you won’t need to repeat it.
3 This first version has tools to access lists, capture items, move items between lists, review and edit tasks, manage projects and sub-projects, access context and person tags, and manage the perspective horizons (purpose, principles, vision, goals, and areas of focus).
How to connect FacileThings MCP to Claude
Connecting your FacileThings account to Claude takes less than a minute and requires no technical knowledge. The steps are the same whether you’re using Claude in the browser or the desktop app:
- Open Settings → Connectors from Claude’s customization menu.
- Click the Add button and choose Add custom connector 4.
- Fill in the details:
- Name:FacileThings
- Server URL:https://mcp.facilethings.com/mcp
- OAuth Client ID:Cc-IyQWv97tXc_Kn6TRvFPCRihEXHShzaEhgfI0ykLU - Click Add, then Connect to authorize access to your account. You’ll be taken to a consent web page where you’ll need to enter your FacileThings login credentials.
Once connected, there’s no need to do anything special to “activate” it each time: just write naturally “capture this…”, “what’s pending on project X?”, “help me review my waiting-for list.”
4 We’ll ask Anthropic to include our MCP server in their official connector directory, which will in the future allow it to be enabled with a single click from there. Until that request is resolved, the way to connect it is through custom connectors, following the steps above.
How to connect FacileThings MCP to ChatGPT
ChatGPT only allows adding custom MCP servers on certain plans. On the free plan, you’ll need to enable “developer mode” to do this:
- Open Settings → Plugins, from the menu under your name in the bottom left.
- Turn on Developer mode (if needed).
- Open Browse plugins and click the (+) button (if that button isn’t there, you’ll need to enable “developer mode” first).
- Fill in the details:
- Name:FacileThings
- Connection:https://mcp.facilethings.com/mcp
- (Click “Advanced OAuth settings”)
- OAuth Client ID:L7xgxiTwTkHMO3Upnva2lygRjzqrQFDnyIspLO2xR3A
- (Check “I understand and want to continue”) - Click Create, then Connect to authorize access to your account. You’ll be taken to a consent web page where you’ll need to enter your FacileThings login credentials.
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