memo-mcp

Personal notes MCP server for Claude Desktop. Save, search, and list notes from inside any Claude conversation. Notes are stored locally in SQLite with full-text search powered by FTS5.

Requires Python 3.11+

Installation

pip install memo-mcp

Claude Desktop setup

Add the following to your Claude Desktop config file:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memo": {
      "command": "memo-mcp",
      "args": ["serve"]
    }
  }
}

If memo-mcp is not on your PATH (e.g. installed in a virtualenv), use the full path to the executable, or install with uv and use uvx instead:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memo": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["memo-mcp", "serve"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop after editing the config.

Tools

Once connected, Claude can use three tools:

Custom database path

By default notes are stored at ~/.memo-mcp/notes.db. Override with the MEMO_MCP_DB_PATH environment variable:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memo": {
      "command": "memo-mcp",
      "args": ["serve"],
      "env": {
        "MEMO_MCP_DB_PATH": "/path/to/your/notes.db"
      }
    }
  }
}

Rebuilding the search index

If search results seem incomplete after a crash or manual database edit, rebuild the FTS5 index:

memo-mcp reindex
# Reindexed 42 notes in 0.03s

Pass --db to target a non-default database:

memo-mcp reindex --db /path/to/notes.db

Scheduling nightly reindex

macOS / Linux — add to crontab (crontab -e):

0 3 * * * memo-mcp reindex >> ~/.memo-mcp/reindex.log 2>&1

Windows — run once in an elevated PowerShell to create a daily Task Scheduler job:

schtasks /create /tn "memo-mcp reindex" /tr "memo-mcp reindex" /sc daily /st 03:00 /f

Developer notes

Log level — set MEMO_MCP_LOG_LEVEL=debug to enable verbose structured JSON logging to stderr. Default is info. This is a developer-only knob; normal users do not need to set it.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memo": {
      "command": "memo-mcp",
      "args": ["serve"],
      "env": {
        "MEMO_MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "debug"
      }
    }
  }
}

License

MIT