How to give ChatGPT or Claude access to your notes

Your notes are the record of how you think: meeting jottings, project plans, half-formed ideas, reading notes, a list of what worked last time. They’re also the context an AI tool needs to give useful answers. Without them, each conversation with ChatGPT or Claude starts with you explaining the project, the constraints and the decisions already made.

This guide covers the usual ways people share notes with an AI tool, and how to keep your notes in Fabric, connect Fabric to ChatGPT or Claude, and have the AI read your notes when it needs them and write new ones back.

How people usually share notes with ChatGPT or Claude

Copying a note into the chat is the most common approach. It’s precise, since you choose exactly what the model sees. It also relies on you knowing which notes are relevant, and finding them in Apple Notes, Notion, Obsidian or a paper notebook before you start.

Built-in memory features and custom instructions in ChatGPT and Claude carry some context between conversations. They hold short facts and preferences well. A year of project notes is a different scale, and that context stays inside one AI tool. What is AI memory? explains how these features work.

Some people export notes as Markdown or text files and upload them to a project. That works for a fixed set of notes. Notes change daily, so the uploaded copies need refreshing, and anything the AI writes back has to be copied into the notes app by hand.

Step 1: Keep your notes in Fabric

Write notes in Fabric’s notes and docs editor, or paste text into Fabric and it becomes a note. Notes are on the free plan, on the web, the desktop apps and the iOS and Android apps.

Anything you paste into Fabric that isn’t a link becomes a note, which makes it easy to collect fragments from elsewhere: a paragraph from a chat, a list from an email, a snippet from a document.

Paper notes come in through the handwriting scanner. Photograph a page in the mobile app, or upload an image, and Fabric turns it into a structured note with headings, lists and key ideas, keeps any diagrams, and saves the original photo alongside. Several pages can become separate notes or one document. The scanner is free.

Spoken notes work too. Start a voice note in any Fabric app and it’s transcribed and written up when you stop; voice notes need a paid plan. If your notes are in Evernote or Notion, Fabric has import functions for both.

Step 2: Make sure your notes are findable

Fabric creates embeddings for each note so search can match by meaning, writes a summary, and extracts topics, and it suggests tags. A note titled Thursday can still be found by searching for what it’s about, such as “pricing ideas for the spring launch.”

You can organize as much or as little as you like. A folder per project is handy when you want an AI to read one project’s notes, since you can name the folder in your prompt.

Step 3: Connect Fabric to ChatGPT or Claude

The Fabric MCP server connects your notes to an AI tool. Use https://mcp.api.fabric.so/mcp as the server URL. Sign-in is OAuth, so there are no keys to manage.

In Claude, add Fabric from the official connector directory. The manual route in Claude Desktop is Settings, then Connectors, then add a custom connector with a name and the URL, and sign in when prompted. In Claude Code, run claude mcp add fabric --transport http https://mcp.api.fabric.so/mcp, restart, and sign in through the browser the first time.

In ChatGPT, open Settings, go to Connectors and choose Add Connector. Enter the URL and a name, then save. In a new conversation, click More, choose Add Connectors, select Fabric, and sign in.

Step 4: Let the AI read your notes and write back

Once connected, ChatGPT or Claude can search your notes and read them. Start a conversation by pointing at what it should know: “Read my notes in the Fabric folder Spring launch and suggest what’s missing from the plan,” or “Search my Fabric notes for everything I wrote about hiring a designer and summarize where I landed.”

The connection works both ways. The AI tool can create and edit notes in Fabric, so it can save a meeting summary, append ideas to a running note, or write up the plan you just agreed in the chat. It can also create tasks, bookmarks, folders, tags and Fabric memories. Items it creates count against your Fabric storage and AI usage, which you can check at fabric.so/settings/usage.

A practical routine is to end a long working session in ChatGPT or Claude by asking it to write the decisions and next steps into a Fabric note in the project folder. The next session, in either tool, can start by reading that note.

Since the notes live in Fabric, any connected AI tool reads the same set, and switching from ChatGPT to Claude doesn’t mean rebuilding context. How to stop re-explaining context to ChatGPT covers this habit in more depth.

Frequently asked questions

Can ChatGPT read my notes?

Yes, if they’re in Fabric and Fabric is added as a connector in ChatGPT. How to give ChatGPT memory of your notes covers the idea in more detail.

Can Claude write notes into my Fabric?

Yes. Through the Fabric MCP server, Claude can create and edit notes, as well as tasks, bookmarks, folders, tags and memories.

Can I give ChatGPT access to handwritten notes?

Yes. Scan them with Fabric’s handwriting scanner, which is free, and they become structured notes that a connected AI tool can search and read.

Can I add notes to Fabric from my phone?

Yes. Write or paste notes in the iOS and Android apps, send text from other apps through the share sheet, or scan a handwritten page with the camera.

Can I move my notes from Evernote or Notion?

Fabric has import functions for Evernote and Notion, so existing notes can come across into the same library.

Do ChatGPT and Claude see the same notes?

Yes. Both connect to the same Fabric library through the same server URL, so they work from the same notes.

Do I need an API key?

No. Sign-in is OAuth. If it fails, remove the Fabric server from the AI tool and add it again.

Are notes free in Fabric?

Yes. Notes and the handwriting scanner are on the free plan. Voice notes and connections to other apps need a paid plan; see pricing.

Can I use my notes with Fabric’s own AI instead?

Yes. Open a folder of notes and ask the AI assistant. It cites the notes it used, and answers can be saved as new notes.