dotstell

Name: dotstell
Author: dotstell

by dotstellversion 0.9.1i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry namecom.dotstell/dotstell

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Read-only access to your dotstell notes, bookmarks, tasks, people and meetings.

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What you can do with it

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Connection: Runs in the cloud
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Category: Docs, sheets & office work
You need to fill in: Authorization

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
You fill in yourself: Authorization

Values marked secret are keys to your account. Never share them or paste them into a chat.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http dotstell https://dotstell.app/api/mcp --header 'Authorization: Bearer {dotstell_token}'

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dotstell": {
      "url": "https://dotstell.app/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer {dotstell_token}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "dotstell": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://dotstell.app/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer {dotstell_token}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

Authorization secret required HTTP header
Your dotstell token as a Bearer token. Create one in dotstell under Connect AI tools (MCP server).

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

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Basic checksi

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The registry name was verified against the domain dotstell.com (the registry checks domain ownership)
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Compared with others in Docs, sheets & office worki

More stars than 0% of the other 2169 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 63% of the other 2169 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 2169 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is dotstell safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: Authorization

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.9.1) reached the registry 18 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

Open the README

Copied from the maker’s repo as written. PopNx MCP has not reviewed or endorsed it. HTML, images and scripts are removed. Links lead off this site.

Your knowledge is scattered. Dotstell connects it.

Capture · Connect · Ask

Notes · People · Tasks · Bookmarks · Wikilinks · Knowledge Graph · Meetings · Voice dictation · AI Chat & Writing · MCP server · Import & Export · Local Ollama

Website · Live App · Releases · Report a bug · Request a feature · Contact

What is Dotstell?

Dotstell is an open source personal knowledge graph — a single place to write notes, track people, manage tasks, save bookmarks, and connect all of them together through a visual graph. With a built-in AI layer that understands your entire knowledge base.

Most productivity tools are built around capture. Dotstell is built around connection — and now, conversation.

Capture your ideas, meeting notes, and research. Connect them to people, tasks, and bookmarks — building a knowledge graph that grows with you. Ask an AI that answers from your own notes, not the internet — chat, get person intelligence, generate writing, and discover what you already know.

*Everything you write, everyone you know, everything you do — all linked in one living knowledge graph. Now with AI that understands all of it.*

The question it answers that other tools don't:

*"What do I know about this person, this project, this decision — right now, in full context?"*

Support the project

Dotstell is free, self-hostable, and built in the open. If it saves you time or you believe in what we're building:

[Star the repo](https://github.com/dotstell/dotstell/stargazers) — the single most useful thing you can do. It helps others find Dotstell and tells us the work is worthwhile.
[Open an issue](https://github.com/dotstell/dotstell/issues) — bug reports and feature requests shape what gets built next.
[Contribute code](CONTRIBUTING.md) — all skill levels welcome; see the contributing guide.
Share it — tell someone who needs a better way to organise their work.

Every star, issue, and PR genuinely matters for an early-stage OSS project.

Features

Capture

	Feature	Description
📑	Rich Text Notes	Slash commands, tables, code blocks, checklists, images, a table of contents and PDF export; sub-notes, note tabs, colour labels, pinning and drag-to-reorder
📓	Notebooks	Organise notes into named, colour-coded collections; deleted notes stay in the Trash for 30 days
🎙️	Meetings	Paste or upload a Zoom, Teams or Meet transcript (`.vtt`, `.srt`, `.txt`) or your rough notes and get a summary, decisions, action items and open questions; action items become linked tasks. Record a meeting too — see docs/MEETINGS.md
🗣️	Voice dictation	Speak into any note in 12 languages. Fast uses your browser, with spoken punctuation ("comma", "question mark", "new line") and automatic capitals; High accuracy uses Whisper-class models with your own OpenAI, Groq or Gemini key. Words appear as you speak, on a draggable bar that works on a phone
🔖	Smart Bookmarks	Save any URL — title, description and favicon fetched automatically; bulk import from Chrome, Firefox or Safari
✅	Tasks & Priorities	Kanban board and list view with priorities, due dates and times, reminders and overdue alerts
👥	People & 1-on-1s	Track contacts, attach notes, tasks and context directly to people; `@mention` them in notes

Connect

	Feature	Description
⬡	Wikilinks & Backlinks	Type `[[` in any note to link it to another; backlinks and unlinked mentions update automatically
🔗	Manual Linking	Connect any entity to any other — note → person, bookmark → task, and so on
🌐	Knowledge Graph	A visual map of everything; wikilinks and manual connections appear as live edges, with AI-found missing links and clusters
🔍	Universal Search	Ctrl+K command palette across notes, people, tasks and bookmarks, and semantic search by meaning
🏠	Dashboard	Overdue alerts, task progress, recent notes and bookmarks, knowledge health and an AI digest

Ask

	Feature	Description
✨	AI Chat, Write & Assist	Chat grounded in your notes, bookmarks and tasks; draft from templates or improve existing text; inline rewrite, expand and fix; smart titles, auto-tags, summaries, related notes and Person Intelligence. Works with Ollama (local and private), OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or Groq
🔌	Connect AI tools (MCP server)	Let Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and Claude Desktop search and read your notes, bookmarks, tasks, people and meetings with a revocable, read-only token — see docs/MCP.md

Yours to keep

	Feature	Description
📤	Export & No Lock-in	One click exports everything as a zip: Markdown notes with wikilinks and front matter (opens in Obsidian), people, tasks (Markdown and CSV), browser-importable bookmarks, and a lossless JSON backup — see docs/EXPORT.md
📥	Import	Bring in Markdown (Obsidian, Notion, Bear, Joplin, Logseq), Evernote (`.enex`), Google Keep (Takeout) and contacts (`.vcf`, `.csv`); notebooks, tags, dates and `[[wikilinks]]` are kept. Preview first, one-click undo — see docs/IMPORT.md
🖥️	Web, desktop and phone	Use it in the browser, as a ~10 MB desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, or on a phone or tablet; 12 themes
🏠	Self-hostable	Your own Supabase project and any Node.js host — see docs/DEPLOYMENT.md

Screenshots

Live previews of the app are available on dotstell.com — the landing page includes an interactive knowledge graph, dashboard mockup, and feature walkthroughs.

Try the live app at dotstell.app or download the desktop build for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Node.js 20.9+
pnpm — npm install -g pnpm

We use pnpm instead of npm/yarn because it is significantly faster (hard-linked global store, no re-downloading the same package twice), produces a deterministic pnpm-lock.yaml, and is required by the Tauri CLI toolchain used for the desktop build. The lockfile is committed — always use pnpm install, not npm install, to keep the lockfile consistent.

A free Supabase account

1. Clone

git clone https://github.com/dotstell/dotstell.git

cd dotstell

2. Install dependencies

pnpm install

3. Set up Supabase

Create a new project at supabase.com
Go to SQL Editor and run supabase/schema.sql to create all tables, policies, and triggers.

That one file is all a new project needs. For an existing database, apply any migrations you have not run yet, in order:

supabase/migrations/

├── add_notebooks_table.sql ├── add_notes_soft_delete.sql ├── 002_bookmarks_enhancements.sql ├── 003_bookmark_visits.sql ├── 004_notes_parent.sql ├── 005_notes_sort_pin.sql ├── 006_notes_color.sql ├── 007_notebooks_constraints.sql ├── 008_ai_embeddings.sql ← vector(768) columns on notes + bookmarks (AI semantic search) ├── 009_ai_match_functions.sql ← pgvector cosine similarity RPC functions ├── 010_tasks_embedding.sql ← vector(768) column on tasks + match_tasks() (tasks in AI Chat RAG) ├── 011_fix_function_search_paths.sql ├── 012_mcp.sql ← MCP tokens and the read-only functions behind the MCP server └── 013_data_api_grants.sql ← explicit table grants (needed on new Supabase projects from 30 Oct 2026; safe to run on any)

Copy your project URL and anon key from Settings → API

4. Configure environment

cp .env.local.example .env.local

Edit .env.local:

NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL=https://your-project.supabase.co

NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=your-anon-key

Behind a corporate SSL proxy? Add NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 to your .env.local. Do not set this in production.

5. Run

pnpm dev

Open http://localhost:3000, create an account and start connecting your knowledge.

AI Features

Dotstell ships a complete AI layer. All features work with five provider options:

Provider	Chat	Embeddings	Notes
Ollama (local)	✅	✅	Free, private, runs on your machine
OpenAI	✅	✅	GPT-4o, text-embedding-3-small
Anthropic	✅	—	Claude models; use a separate embedding provider
Google Gemini	✅	✅	Generous free tier
Groq	✅	—	Extremely fast inference; use a separate embedding provider

AI features:

Meeting assistant — paste or upload a Zoom, Teams or Meet transcript (or record the meeting) and get a summary, decisions and action items; turn action items into linked tasks
Voice dictation — *Fast* (your browser, with spoken punctuation and automatic capitals, English) or *High accuracy* (your own OpenAI, Groq or Gemini speech key, with punctuation and capitals from the model); both work on phones
Connect AI tools (MCP server) — let Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and Claude Desktop read your notes, bookmarks, tasks, people and meetings with a revocable, read-only token (see docs/MCP.md)
AI Writing Assistant — draft notes from scratch using 8 starter templates (Outline, Meeting notes, Daily log, Research note, OoO email, Proposal, Status update, Email draft) or a custom prompt; improve existing notes with one-click actions (Improve English, Make formal, Make concise, Expand, Full rewrite)
AI Chat — slide-out panel with RAG (semantic search grounds answers in your notes, bookmarks, and tasks), "This note" and "All knowledge" modes, People tab for person intelligence
Inline Assist — select text → rewrite / expand / shorten / fix grammar / outline / checklist / explain
Smart title & auto-tags — suggest a title and up to 5 relevant tags as you write
Note & bookmark summaries — on

Only the beginning is shown; read the rest in the repo

dotstell

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Docs, sheets & office worki

Common questions

Alternatives

Agent-Native Calendar

Excel MCP Server

MCP Server for Excel

README from the maker

Your knowledge is scattered. Dotstell connects it.

What is Dotstell?

Support the project

Features

Capture

Connect

Ask

Yours to keep

Screenshots

Getting Started

Prerequisites

1. Clone

2. Install dependencies

3. Set up Supabase

4. Configure environment

5. Run

AI Features