API keys and connecting an AI assistant
API keys let a script or an AI assistant use your Noteary account without your password. You choose how much each key is allowed to do.
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Create a key
- Open Settings → API keys.
- Name the key and choose its access (below). Noteary may ask for your password, or your two-factor code if you use one.
- Copy the key when it’s shown and keep it somewhere safe — treat it like a password.
Read-only or read & write
- Read & write can also create, edit and delete things. It’s the default.
- Read only can read your recordings and ask questions about them, but can’t change anything. Choose this for anything that only needs to look things up.
Each key in your list shows which kind it is.
Connect Claude Desktop or another MCP client
The same page shows a ready-to-copy address and configuration for MCP clients. Paste it into your client’s config, restart the client, and it can browse your recordings and ask Noteary questions about them. The MCP connection is read-only — it can’t change or delete anything — so a read-only key works with it.
If you delete a key, anything using it stops working straight away.
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