Frequently asked questions

Magpie is a notebook that works inside Claude and ChatGPT. You save an idea mid-conversation, Magpie organizes it automatically, and the next time you open a chat, in either app, your notes are already there. Your notes are stored as plain text markdown files in your own GitHub repository, so they’re yours forever. Magpie is not another app to open. It’s the notebook both of your chats can read.

Magpie connects to Claude as a connector. Once it’s set up, you can ask Claude to save something to Magpie mid-conversation, or ask Claude to pull up your saved notes when you’re ready to write. It works across every Claude surface: claude.ai in the browser, the Claude iOS app, Claude desktop (Cowork), and Claude Code. Setup takes about two minutes.

Anything you want your chats to remember later. Voice notes, links, articles, half-formed thoughts, quotes, ideas from conversations. You save by asking Claude or ChatGPT to save something to Magpie during any conversation. Out of messages? The iPhone app saves without a chat open.

Yes. Magpie handles folders, tags, titles, and structure automatically. Zero setup required. There are folders and tags, but you never have to think about them. The filing is invisible. Magpie learns from what you add, and the more you save, the better the organization gets.

Your notes are stored in your own GitHub repository as plain text markdown files. Magpie does not store your notes in a proprietary database. You can see them, read them, edit them, or move them anytime. They’re standard files you can open in any text editor.

GitHub is the primary store. Magpie maintains a search index so Claude and ChatGPT can find your notes quickly, but your GitHub repository is always the source of truth. You can read, edit, or delete your files directly in GitHub at any time.

Both have memory, and it’s useful. But it’s platform memory. Claude’s stays in Claude. ChatGPT’s stays in ChatGPT. You don’t control what either one keeps, how it’s organized, or where it goes. You can’t browse it, export it, or take it with you if you switch tools. Magpie is the part you own. You decide what goes in, it’s organized automatically, it’s stored as plain text files in your GitHub, and both chats can read it. The distinction is platform memory vs. your memory.

Notion asks you to organize before you’ve even had the idea. Which workspace? Which database? Page or sub-page? You spend more time managing structure than using your ideas. Notion is built for humans to browse, with rich text and nested databases. Magpie is built for Claude and ChatGPT to read: plain text files, organized automatically, zero setup. And when a chat needs your ideas, it doesn’t have to parse a rich-text database. It just reads your words.