Step 1: Connect (once, about a minute)
In the Claude app or claude.ai: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste
https://www.triptidy.app/api/mcp
You'll be sent to TripTidy to sign in and approve. The approval is scoped hard: Claude can see your trips and add ideas, but it can never read your email or change your account. Revoke any time.
Step 2: Riff
Open a chat and talk about the trip the way you'd talk to a well-traveled friend:
- “Look at my Sacramento trip. Where should I get coffee near the hotel?”
- “I have Thursday afternoon free. One museum, one walk, one early dinner.”
- “Add the top three to my trip.”
Claude sees your real schedule (arrival times, the hotel's neighborhood, the gaps), so suggestions fit around bookings instead of ignoring them. When you say the word, the keepers are saved to the trip. Your phone gets one quiet summary (“Claude added 3 ideas”), not a notification per espresso.
Step 3: Book the winners (anywhere)
Ideas appear on your trip marked as ideas, lighter than bookings, each with a Book link to the venue. Book on OpenTable, the venue's site, over the phone, wherever. Here's the part that feels like magic: when the confirmation email arrives, TripTidy recognizes it matches your idea and upgrades it in place: the idea becomes the booking, confirmation code and all. Nothing to clean up, no duplicates.
Why this beats a notes app
Chat-planned itineraries usually die in the chat. This one ends up where your day actually lives: on the day view while you're walking around, in the calendar feed, one tap from directions. And unlike a pasted list, it stays honest: ideas look like ideas until you've actually booked them.
TripTidy speaks the open Model Context Protocol, so other assistants work too. ChatGPT connects via its developer-mode connectors. New to TripTidy? The iOS beta is open.