Which AI assistants can run a GTD board? Any assistant that speaks MCP. GTD Brain hosts a GTD MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Docker’s MCP Toolkit can read, add, edit, move and archive the cards on your board in plain language — and never delete one. The board isn’t only for assistants, either: a VS Code extension, an Obsidian plugin, a Telegram bot and a Notion template connect the apps you already work in. Every connection uses the same email code you sign in with on the web; there is no password or API token to copy, and one account serves all of them.
Every MCP assistant connects to the same address — GTD Brain’s MCP server (the apps below sign in on their own and need none):
Each of these speaks MCP, so it reads, adds, edits, moves and archives the cards on your board in plain language — capture mid-conversation, ask what's next, run your weekly review — and never deletes one.
Add GTD Brain as a ChatGPT connector — or find it by name in ChatGPT's app directory — and the chat you already live in becomes a GTD assistant: capture to your inbox mid-conversation, ask for your next actions, move a stalled card to Waiting For. GTD Brain is a published ChatGPT app, so your cards render inline in the chat.
Setup guide →Add GTD Brain as a custom connector in Claude and your board becomes part of the conversation: Claude captures what's on your mind into your inbox, pulls up your next actions by context and walks you through a weekly review — reading and updating the same board you see on the web and your phone. One address to paste, no API key to manage.
Setup guide →One terminal command puts your GTD board inside Claude Code. Capturing a thought then costs one sentence — “add ‘fix the flaky auth test’ to my inbox” — without switching windows, and everything you capture from the terminal is on the web, iOS and Android apps in real time.
Setup guide →Cursor's agent captures the TODO you just wrote, the flaky test you promised to look at or the message to send once the PR lands straight to your Inbox in one sentence, without leaving the editor. Setup is a one-click install from cursor.directory or three lines in mcp.json, plus a browser sign-in.
Setup guide →The GTD Brain extension points Gemini CLI at the hosted MCP server and adds a context file that teaches Gemini the GTD method, plus /gtd: slash commands for capture, inbox zero, waiting-for and the weekly review. Setup is one install command and a browser sign-in.
Setup guide →GTD Brain is in Docker Desktop's MCP Toolkit catalog: add it like any other server, sign in once, and every client on Docker's MCP gateway — Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and the rest — can capture to your Inbox, list your next actions and move cards. Nothing runs in a container; the toolkit proxies to the hosted server and keeps the sign-in for you.
Setup guide →A declarative agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot: add GTD Brain from “Get agents” and Copilot becomes your GTD assistant in Copilot Chat, in Teams and in the Copilot pane of Word — capture from the middle of a Teams chat, ask for your next actions, run your weekly review without opening another app.
Setup guide →Not assistants — the editor, notes app and chat app you already work in, with capture and your lists built in. Same board, same account, and every change is on the web, iOS and Android apps in real time.
A free extension for Visual Studio Code — and for Cursor, Windsurf and VSCodium through Open VSX — that captures the code you selected, the TODO comment under the cursor or the file and line you are on to your Inbox in one keystroke, each with a link back, and shows your Inbox, Next Actions and Projects in the sidebar.
Setup guide →A free, open-source community plugin that lays out the classic GTD structure — Inbox, Next Actions grouped by context, Projects, Waiting For, Someday/Maybe — as plain Markdown notes in your vault, one note per card, plus a Weekly Review checklist. Edit a note or move it to another list folder and the change lands on your board.
Setup guide →Message the GTD Brain bot and it is an Inbox card on your board before you have switched apps — typed, or as a voice note the bot transcribes. Ask it for your lists, too: /next, /waiting, /inbox and /projects. Nothing to install and no address to paste; you link the chat once with your email code.
Setup guide →Start with the free GTD Weekly Review template: the five lists and a weekly-review checklist, laid out like GTD Brain's own board, on any Notion plan. On Notion's Business and Enterprise plans, Notion AI connects to GTD Brain directly over MCP; on any plan, ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code and Cursor do.
Setup guide →Once connected, ask your assistant things like “what’s in my Next Actions?”, “add ‘book dentist’ to my inbox”, or “move the tax card to Waiting For”. The assistant sees the same board you do — columns, cards, notes, and contexts — and every change syncs instantly to the web, iOS, and Android apps. Cards can be archived but never deleted, so nothing is ever lost to a misfired prompt.
Any assistant that speaks MCP, plus a few that don't. ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Notion AI and Docker's MCP Toolkit connect to GTD Brain's hosted GTD MCP server and can read, add, edit, move and archive your cards. VS Code and Obsidian get a plugin instead, and Telegram a bot. Every one of them has a step-by-step guide linked on this page.
A GTD MCP server is a GTD board exposed over MCP (Model Context Protocol), the open standard AI assistants use to talk to outside tools. GTD Brain hosts one, so an assistant can list your next actions, capture to your inbox and move cards between lists without a plugin or an API key: you paste one address into the assistant, sign in with an email code, and the connection keeps working on its own.
Yes. GTD Brain is a published ChatGPT app and a custom connector: add it under Settings → Connectors (custom connectors need a paid ChatGPT plan), sign in with your email code, and ChatGPT can capture to your inbox, list your next actions by context, move cards and run your weekly review with you — rendering the relevant cards inline in the chat.
Yes — GTD Brain is a Claude connector. In Claude, open Settings → Connectors, add a custom connector with GTD Brain's MCP address (custom connectors need a paid Claude plan) and sign in with your email code. Claude then reads and updates the same board you see on the web and your phone. Claude Code gets the same connection with a single terminal command.
No API key: every connection uses the same passwordless email code as the apps, and you can disconnect at any time from the assistant's connector settings. Connecting is free — after signing in, your assistant can create your first 3 cards on a free GTD Brain account. Ongoing use needs a GTD Brain subscription, the one subscription that also covers the web, iOS and Android apps.
No. Every connection is limited the same way: an assistant can read, add, edit, move and archive cards, but it can never delete one, and archived cards stay recoverable. Each change syncs in real time to the web, iOS and Android apps, so what the assistant did is visible right away — and you can revoke the connection whenever you like.
No. One GTD Brain account and one board serve every connection: connect ChatGPT, Claude Code and the Telegram bot and all three work the same cards, each signed in with the same email code. Docker's MCP Toolkit goes one step further — sign in there once and every client on its gateway, such as Claude Desktop, Cursor and VS Code, shares that one connection.
New to GTD Brain? Get started free — then connect your AI tools from the account menu, or straight from this page. Curious what AI changes about the method itself? Read GTD with AI: the AI GTD app. New to GTD altogether? Start with The GTD method, explained.