AI Chat
Eduard Metzger
Do you have some workflow / use cases for this? I found the results in tests is a poor and slow search. Also, there are not many useful use cases in my mind.
Someone made an MCP server, so you can use Claude Desktop to chat with your notes: https://github.com/mnedoszytko/noteplan-mcp
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Randy
Eduard Metzger There are many types of questions i would ask.. make bullet points out of my day/documents, identify top tasks, plan out my coming week, where am i most stuck, what document should i work on, fill in the missing details in my exercises, etc.
Mostly just the convenience and sense of having a copilot alongside me beyond the current AI implementation.
Of course it should work between notes to enjoy properly. i think Tana and Notion have a good implementation last i checked.
Thanks for the link to the MCP. i might hold off though for now as i don’t want to get too technical. But it’s good to know such exists.
The beauty of Noteplan is ultimately these are standalone files and i could seek an external solution if i really wanted to. But would definitely appreciate one built into the app.
Eduard Metzger
Randy Thanks for elaborating.
Where I have my doubts is anything related to priority. How would AI know what is high priority? You would need to document it really well in advance. And if you did that, you technically got your priority list ready.
I'm not sure if you tried that with Notion or Tana. I can imagine it comes back with random tasks that I don't personally deem important. But we need to try. I think we can try first with the MCP (it's just a connector for AI to your note files).
> bullet points out of my day/documents
Something like a summary? That would work well with AI
> fill in the missing details in my exercises
That could work well
> plan out my coming week
> what document should i work on
> identify top tasks
These are cases of priority where I feel AI might fail badly. Even other humans, because only you know what's important for you and when you want to work on what.
I'll add "anything search" related. This is also mostly tedious work an AI could handle.
Personally, I think AI is good for grunt work. I use it heavily for coding. Lots of coding is repetitive typing out stuff. AI shines here. It's a pattern recognition robot.
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Randy
Eduard Metzger The obvious use cases established, I think even in the areas where it might seem likely to fail, AI can be helpful. The more context it has (in terms of having access to all my daily calendar notes for instance), the higher quality the feedback I feel it can be.
Of course, we must have the realistic expectation that the results might not be that good, but even a fresh perspective is often enough, even if the response is less than perfect. And AI is improving at a rapid clip.
I haven't used AI in other notetaking maps TOO much.. but just enough to know that AI Chat in these apps can be helpful. I primarily use ChatGPT independently and it demonstrates to be very helpful in providing feedback on uploaded notes.
I might try the MCP you shared. Though chatGPT introduced connectors recently, it doesn't have iCloud. But I think I can find a way to sync these files. So I think these both could be options to explore until you have a native solution. :)
Eduard Metzger
Randy another place you can try AI is in templates: https://help.noteplan.co/article/233-ai-prompts-in-templates
You can build a template that summarizes the last 7 days for example and give it as much context as you think it needs, including folders.
If you test the MCP, let us know about your experience and in which cases it helped!
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Randy
Eduard Metzger Templates is a wonderful feature and strategy. I will check it out, and I will report if I try the MCP.