TabTree

TabTree

Mind maps, kanban boards and whiteboards — one document, many views, in your account.

Live demo — no signup · tabtree.app · Templates · Claude connector

What it is

TabTree is a mind-mapping, kanban and whiteboard app at tabtree.app. One document reads several ways: mind map, kanban board, Gantt chart, calendar, page of notes, spreadsheet or full-screen presentation. Switch views; nothing is converted and nothing is lost.

This repository

TabTree itself is a commercial product and its source is not published here. This repository is the public face of it, and it holds four things that are useful on their own:

• [`mcp/`](mcp/) — the full source of the Claude connector, free to use, copy, redistribute and modify (its own licence, no attribution required), and the same code published to npm as tabtree-mcp.
• [`plugins/tabtree/`](plugins/tabtree/) — the Claude Code plugin: it ties a coding session to one card of a board (your commits land on it), ships the connector, and adds a facilitation skill that ends in a real document. See Claude Code plugin below.
• [`templates/`](templates/) — template outlines in plain Markdown, each with a link that opens it live. Paste them into TabTree, or into any outliner.
• [`screenshots/`](screenshots/) — rendered by the real app, not mocked up.

To see the app itself, try the demo — it runs in your browser, with nothing to install and no signup.

Claude connector

Let Claude read your TabTree library and turn a conversation, a transcript or a spec into a real mind map, kanban board or whiteboard — in your account, on every device, and in the team spaces you belong to.

1. Get your connector key. In TabTree: ⚙️ Settings → Account → Claude connector → *Create a connector key*. It is shown once and starts with tt_live_.

2. Claude Desktop — double-click. Download TabTree-Connector.mcpb (or from tabtree.app/connector) and double-click it. Claude Desktop ships its own Node and asks for your key on its install screen.

No install — claude.ai, ChatGPT, Cursor: connect by address, https://tabtree.app/mcp. The app opens a TabTree page where you sign in and press Allow: no key to copy. In claude.ai: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste the address.

Claude Code, or any MCP client:

claude mcp add tabtree --scope user -e TABTREE_API_KEY="tt_live_…" -- npx -y tabtree-mcp

Or in your client's config:

{

"mcpServers": { "tabtree": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "tabtree-mcp"], "env": { "TABTREE_API_KEY": "tt_live_…" } } } }

Fourteen tools: list_maps, read_map, search_maps, create_mindmap, plant_project (a brief becomes a tree — roots, branches, birds), create_kanban, create_board (with your own images, and tables), plan_system (a whole system from a brief, built after review), propose_changes, harvest, fill_knowledge, card_prompt, deliver_card, and board_numbers (a kanban's burnup, what is blocking, cycle time and forecast — the numbers of TabTree's dashboard). The connector never overwrites or deletes a map. Safe changes to an existing map (add a card, move it, tick it, assign it, date it, comment on it) are applied by TabTree itself while it is open, and Cmd+Z undoes them; anything that rewrites or removes what someone wrote is shown to you first, as a banner on that map. Full detail in mcp/README.md.

Claude Code plugin

Ties a Claude Code session to one card of a TabTree board. Claude knows which card it is working on — even after /clear — and your commits land on that card as a comment, without you writing anything.

claude plugin marketplace add ai4xedu/tabtree-mcp

claude plugin install tabtree@tabtree

Then give it your connector key (tt_live_…, from TabTree → ⚙️ Settings → Account → Claude connector): inside a Claude Code session, run /plugin configure tabtree@tabtree. From a shell, claude plugin configure tabtree@tabtree --values-stdin reads it as {"api_key":"tt_live_…"} on standard input. The key is kept by Claude Code, never written into a file of your repository.

Once a repository is linked, each session starts with a one-paragraph summary of the board and the current card, and the commits made during a session become one comment on the card: hash, subject and branch — never a diff, a file or a secret. A hook never blocks a session: when TabTree does not answer, Claude goes on without it. The connector itself ships inside the plugin (the same tabtree-mcp.mjs as on npm), so the twelve tools above are in the session.

Screenshots

The same document as status columns — every card is still a node of the map.

Arrows stay attached to the boxes when you move them.

A shared map, as your reader sees it.

Images and reasoning on one canvas.

Radial layout, dark theme.

Licence

Different licences, and the distinction matters:

• The connector in mcp/ is free to use, copy, redistribute and modify, for any purpose — see mcp/LICENSE.md. It is given away on purpose.
• The plugin in plugins/tabtree/ carries the connector's licence file, and the workshop skill keeps its own (plugins/tabtree/skills/atelier-vision-okr/LICENSE.md): free on the same terms, commercial workshops included. Each text names what it covers.
• The app is a commercial service at tabtree.app; its source is not in this repository.
• The template outlines are yours to copy and adapt freely.

Made in Casablanca. tabtree.app