Aside for Claude: your meeting notes in Claude, over MCP
Aside is in Claude’s connector directory. Connect it and Claude can read your meetings, prepare plans for your next calls and write your playbooks. It works on Claude’s web and desktop apps.
What Claude can do with Aside
Claude gets your meeting text and your calendar for the next two weeks. It can read past meetings, with the summary, the next steps, the follow-up email and the full transcript with your notes. It can write the plan for an upcoming call, which Aside then uses during the call. It can save your call scripts as playbooks, and it keeps a shared memory of you, the people you meet and the companies your calls are about.
What you need
Aside on a Mac with Apple silicon or a Windows PC, signed in to your Aside account. A Claude account on the web (claude.ai) or the Claude desktop app. If you add Aside by hand as a custom connector instead: free Claude plans can add one custom connector. Pro and Max plans can add more. On Team and Enterprise plans, Claude’s docs say an owner adds custom connectors for the organisation first, and then each member connects.
Set it up
In Aside, open Settings → Account → AI apps, click Connect, then Add next to Claude. Aside copies the connector URL and opens Claude’s form, so all you do is paste and click Allow.
Steps
- Open Aside’s page in Claude’s connector directory.
- Click Connect to Claude.
- Claude opens a sign-in page that sends you to the Aside app. Click Allow.
- Optional: Aside can open a new Claude chat with a request already typed, asking Claude to pass on what it knows about your work, projects and the people you deal with. Nothing is sent until you press Enter.
Adding it by hand
In Claude, open Customize → Connectors, click + Add, then Add custom connector. Use Aside as the name and this URL.
https://mcp.asidehq.app
Claude Code
Claude Code adds MCP servers from the terminal. The quickest way is the setup prompt on the Connect page: paste it into Claude Code and it adds Aside, then tells you how to sign in.
What to ask Claude
Ask in plain words. Claude decides which Aside tools to use.
Claude finds the meeting, reads what Aside remembers about Acme, and can look the company up on the web if you let it. It writes goals, background and ready answers.
Attach the doc or paste the script. Claude keeps your words and saves it as a playbook that live guidance follows.
Claude reads last week’s meetings and answers from the transcripts and next steps.
Aside’s ⌘K or Ctrl+K finds a word across your transcripts. Claude can read several meetings and pull the threads together.
Your ⌃⌥N or Ctrl+Alt+N notes sit in the transcript at the moment you wrote them, so Claude sees them in context.
Claude names the playbook in the plan and keeps the plan to what’s specific to that call.
Privacy
Claude only reaches text in your Aside account: titles, transcripts, summaries, notes, plans, speaker names, playbooks and memory. Audio isn’t stored in your account. From your calendar, only titles, times and attendee names of the next two weeks sync, and each is deleted once the meeting ends. Once Claude reads something, Anthropic’s terms for your Claude plan apply to it. See the privacy page for Aside’s side.
Where Claude fits, and where it doesn’t
Aside records on your computer and transcribes English and 24 European languages there (add another language and every call is transcribed online, as on computers too slow to keep up, but for notes-only calls on the free plan), and guides you during the call. Claude is where you prepare before and follow up after. Claude doesn’t join the call or hear it live. If you use ChatGPT instead, the ChatGPT page has its steps. All the apps that work with Aside are on Works with.
Disconnect
In Aside, open Settings → Account → AI apps, click Connect, then Disconnect next to Claude. You can also remove the connector in Claude.
Questions
Can Claude read my meeting notes and transcripts?
Yes, once you connect Aside. Claude can read each meeting’s summary and full transcript with your notes, and answer across several meetings.
Does it work on the free Claude plan?
Yes. Free Claude plans can add one custom connector, on the web or the desktop app.
Can Claude listen to my calls live?
No. Claude reads the text afterwards, never audio, and writes plans that Aside uses during the next call.
Do I need a password to connect Claude?
No. Claude sends you to the Aside app, where you click Allow. You need to be signed in to Aside on your computer.
Last checked 12 Nov 2026. Claude changes, so check its help pages if a step looks different.
Sources
Claude plan details come from Anthropic’s help centre, read on 15 Oct 2026.