It cannot change anything until you allow it
Reading and changing use separate switches. Changing stays off until you enable it in Settings.
AI access
Ask your assistant about your own plan.
Connect an AI assistant to your ReminderMAP plan. It can answer questions about the work and make the changes you request.
There is nothing else to install. Copy one block of text out of ReminderMAP, send it to your command line AI tool, and it sets itself up from there.
Your assistant has to be one you run from a command line.
The connection lives inside ReminderMAP and it is an address on this Mac, so the assistant needs somewhere to put an address. Claude Code has somewhere. Codex has somewhere. So does an assistant built into your code editor.
The chat apps do not. Claude for Mac takes a program it starts itself or an address out on the internet, and a local one is neither. ChatGPT opens its connections from OpenAI servers, which never see your Mac. One you open in a browser cannot reach it either.
Section three explains how to check your assistant and what a tunnel would change.
01 / What for
Things you can just ask for
Ask in ordinary language. Here are a few examples.
Asking
- “What is due this week?”
- “What am I stuck on, and what is it waiting for?”
- “What did I actually finish last month?”
- “Show me everything under the Riverside project.”
- “Which parts of this have not moved in a fortnight?”
Changing
- “Mark the contract task as stuck, we are waiting on their legal team.”
- “Put these four tasks under the new client group.”
- “Start the migration work on Monday.”
- “Add a note that the vendor pushed the date again.”
02 / Setup
Connecting it
- 1
Turn it on in ReminderMAP
Open Settings, choose AI access and turn it on. ReminderMAP starts the local endpoint inside the app.
- 2
Copy the configuration
Press Copy configuration. ReminderMAP fills in the port and key for this Mac and copies the finished settings block.
- 3
Send it to your AI tool
Paste the whole thing into your command line AI tool and ask it to connect. It puts the server where it belongs and reconnects on its own, and you never have to know which file that is. After that it knows what ReminderMAP is and what it may do, because the app explains itself on connection.
- 4
Decide whether it may make changes
Reading is all it can do until you say otherwise. There is a separate switch for allowing changes, and it stays off until you turn it on. Plenty of people leave it off and use the connection purely to ask questions.
For the curious, the block looks like this. The app fills in the port and the key for you, so what you copy will not look exactly like this.
{
"mcpServers": {
"remindermap": {
"type": "http",
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:PORT/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR-KEY" }
}
}
}03 / Compatibility
Which assistants work
Two requirements, and the second one catches people out. The assistant has to be running on this Mac, and it has to have somewhere you can put an address. The endpoint answers only requests from the machine it sits on, which is the same property that keeps your plan off the internet, and we are not trading it for convenience.
The ones you drive from a command line have somewhere to put an address, and so do the ones built into a code editor. Claude Code connects. Codex connects. The chat apps do not: Claude for Mac takes a program it starts itself or an address out on the internet, and a local one is neither. ChatGPT opens its connections from OpenAI servers that never see your Mac. A tab you keep open on a website runs on someone else’s computer, whichever assistant is behind it.
There is nothing ReminderMAP specific to install on either side. Send the block to your tool and ask it to connect, and it works out where the configuration goes.
If the browser is the only place you use yours
A tunnel can give the local endpoint an internet address so a hosted assistant can reach your Mac.
Doing this makes the endpoint reachable from outside your Mac by anyone with the address and key. You are responsible for setting up and securing the tunnel; ReminderMAP does not configure, monitor or support it. If you are not already comfortable running one, use an assistant that runs locally.
Two you may come across: OpenAI publishes Secure MCP Tunnel for ChatGPT, and Cloudflare Tunnel is a general purpose one. Neither is a ReminderMAP integration, and neither is something we support.
If you already run MCP servers and want the technical picture instead, that is on the MCP page.
04 / Safety
What stops it going wrong
The connection limits what an assistant can change and keeps a recovery path for every write.
It cannot delete anything, ever
There is no tool for removing a task or group. The assistant also cannot rename a task.
A full backup before the first change
The first time it changes anything, ReminderMAP saves a complete copy of your planning data first, kept separately from your ordinary backups so a busy session cannot push them out.
Everything it does is visible and reversible
Each change is recorded in the task work log, marked as your assistant’s work, and comes back with a single undo, the same as anything you did by hand.
It cannot rewrite everything at once
A single batch is capped at fifty tasks. ReminderMAP also instructs the assistant to describe a batch before running it and ask before marking anything complete.
05 / Privacy
Where this leaves your data
The connection never leaves your Mac. It is not on your network and not on the internet, it only accepts requests from the same machine, and it carries a key that ReminderMAP generates locally. You can replace that key at any time in Settings.
ReminderMAP has no server, so nothing goes to us either. If the app is closed, there is nothing running at all.
One thing worth being clear about: your assistant is somebody else’s software. Whatever it reads from ReminderMAP may be sent to whoever makes it, under their privacy policy rather than ours. That is worth a look before you connect anything, and it is true of every tool you connect to an assistant.
The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
06 / Troubleshooting
If it is not working
| Your assistant cannot find it | ReminderMAP has to be running. Nothing is listening when the app is closed. If you want it always available, set the app to open when you log in. |
|---|---|
| It worked yesterday and not today | Check that AI access is still switched on in Settings. If you replaced the key, your assistant is still holding the old one, so copy the configuration again. |
| It can read but not change anything | That is the separate switch for changes, which is off until you turn it on. |
| You want to cut it off | Turn AI access off in Settings, or quit the app. Either one ends it immediately. |
07 / Cost
What it costs
AI access is one of the three paid features. Without an active subscription, the endpoint does not start.
There is no read only free version.
