why we're writing about it

Miládka doesn't have to live only in her notes. Claude can connect the apps you use every day anyway: calendar, drive, mail, tasks, team chat. They're called connectors. You turn them on in the app in a few clicks, nothing gets installed, and you don't need us for it.

We use them ourselves, and for plenty of people they'll be enough. Where they aren't, we build modules. But first, here's what works without them.

Karel Derfl

What a connector is

A bridge between Claude and another app. Through it Claude can search, read and do things there: book a meeting, save a document, draft an email. You connect it once, and Miládka then has it in every conversation.

Connectors are available on all Claude plans, including the free one.

Where to turn them on

  • Open the directory. In the Claude app, Customize → Connectors, the Discover tab. Or right in your conversation with Miládka, through + next to the message box → Connectors.
  • Pick an app. The directory has over 800 of them, and the full list is also at claude.com/connectors.
  • Sign in. The app's own sign-in opens, the same as anywhere else.
  • Allow access. The app shows you what Claude will be able to reach. Then you're done.

Google: mail, calendar, drive

For most people the most useful three.

  • Gmail. Searches and reads mail, drafts replies, sorts with labels. It can send too, but by default it asks before sending. It doesn't see what's inside attachments, only their names.
  • Calendar. Sees your events and shared calendars. Books and moves meetings, finds a time that suits everyone, and replies to invitations.
  • Drive. Finds and reads documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs. Whatever Claude creates for you, it saves straight to Drive. It reads the text and skips images inside documents.

Calendar and mail together show it best. In the morning brief Miládka tells you which meetings are ahead today, and next to each one, what those people last sent you.

Microsoft 365

  • Outlook, calendar, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams. Only with a work account, and your company administrator has to allow it once. Personal @outlook.com and @hotmail.com addresses can't be connected.

Others worth a look

  • Notes and tasks. Notion, Asana, Todoist, Trello and more. Miládka finds, creates and ticks off tasks.
  • Team. Slack, Jira and Confluence. What was discussed, who's working on what.
  • Sales and customers. HubSpot, Intercom, Calendly. Context on a client before the meeting.
  • Files. Dropbox and Box, when your company doesn't run on Google.
  • Meetings. Fireflies, Fathom. A transcript and notes from the meeting, from which Miládka pulls the tasks.
  • Design. Canva. A draft of a post or a presentation.
  • Everything else. Zapier links thousands of other apps through one route.
  • Mac only. iMessage and Apple Notes.

Where connectors stop

A connector does what its author built into it, nothing more. Gmail, for example, connects only one inbox. For cases like that we build modules, such as multiple Gmail inboxes in one Miládka.

Security

  • Claude may only do what you can. It has no more rights in the app than your account does.
  • You decide what it does on its own. For each connector action you choose whether Claude does it right away, asks first, or isn't allowed to at all.
  • Disconnect any time. In the same menu where you turned the connector on.
  • Only connect what you trust. From the directory in the app, not from random links.

Try it

Once you've connected something, write to Miládka:

Message for Miladka

Look at which connectors I have turned on and tell me what you can do for me with them.