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 — 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.