Reading Log

In this example, you’ll learn how to create a personal book and reading tracker in Craft. With the help of ChatGPT or Claude, you can capture excerpts and quotes easily, transcribing them directly from the book.

Step 1 — Create Your Doc

Our reading log is kept in a collection inside the Craft doc, where we track the book title and its author, some tags about its content as well as the date we started reading it and the date we finished it. Inside the items we can also add quotes and notes about the books. Of course you can adjust the collection and add fields for anything you would like to track.

Use the template to create a new doc with a collection for your reading log:

Reading Log

Preview Template

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Step 2 — Enable MCP Access

Enable MCP Access for your doc to get a unique URL that can be used to read from and add to your doc.

Step 1

Open the “Imagine” tab

Step 2

Click “Create Your First MCP Connection”

Step 3

Configure your MCP connection with a name.

Step 4

Click “Add Document” and select your Reading Log document.

Step 5

The MCP URL that will be used to interact with your document is now displayed at the top.

Step 3 — Set up the MCP Connection

Now let’s use the MCP URL to connect to the doc from a client:

ClaudeChatGPT

A Claude Pro or Max subscription is required to add custom connectors.

Step 1

Go to Settings

Step 2

Select the “Connectors” section and click the “Add custom connector” button

Step 3

Give the connector a meaningful name and paste the MCP URL from Craft

Step 4

After confirming, your connector is now set up and you can start using it in your chats

To learn more, take a look at Claude’s documentation: “Getting Started with Custom Connectors Using Remote MCP”.

Step 4 — Start Interacting with Your Doc

You can now ask Claude about your reading log, and ask it to add quotes and excerpts directly into your Craft doc – even from images.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

How many books am I reading right now?

Please add this quote to “How Buildings Learn”

Remind me of my favorite quote from the last book I finished.

I just started reading this book.

Am I on track to read more books this year than last year?

Click the examples to copy the prompt to your clipboard

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