r/CraftDocs

I'm a relatively long-term Craft user. I only recently started using its MCP server with Claude. It's been really useful and eye-opening.

Every Monday, I create two new documents in Craft: A "Week of _______" for work and a "Week of _______" for personal use. I create them from templates I previously structured. In those documents I capture notes, thoughts, todos, and so on. My thinking has always been that I'll use Craft's AI assistant to find things when needed down the road.

A couple weeks back I started using Claude to create the new weekly documents from those templates, including updating the document titles, all with just a one-sentence prompt. No clicking around in Craft. It's been terrific.

I'm also a Voicenotes user for capturing on-the-go notes and recording meetings without a bot joining the call. Voicenotes transcribes and summarizes, like a lot of these types of apps. I've always wanted these two worlds to collide so all of my notes are in one place. Well, yesterday Voicenotes announced its own MCP server and wow...what a game-changer for me.

I'm now able to:

• Create documents from templates via Claude/Craft as mentioned above
• Record notes or meetings via Voicenotes with a single click on my Mac...which are then uploaded to Voicenotes, where they are summarized and transcribed
• Tell Claude to grab that new summary and add it to a specific block in the Craft document

Because of Craft's block structure, Claude knows exactly how to do this and it hasn't failed me after doing this 10 different times over the last 24 hours. Maybe I'm easily wowed, but this is amazing to me.

I don't see this as advanced compared to what some people are doing. But the tedious and constant copying and pasting I had to do prior to these two MCPs existing was crazy.

Now, finally, Craft will handle all of my notes once I port my old ones over from Apple Notes...

EDIT:
I am not talking about the notes themselves, I am talking about the UI elements.
For example, other than being extremely slow, the square-ish buttons Craft uses are, in my opinion, uglier than the default native ones, that’s all.

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Earlier, I opened the Craft website and saw this image:

​And this is BEAUTIFUL. The buttons, the sidebar, the tabs, the corners, everything is so nice and coherent.

Then, I opened the actual app on my mac, which looks like this:

​What is this?? Where are the beautiful pill-shaped tabs? Where are the rounded corners on notes?

What are these buttons? Why are they rectangles?

SwiftUI already offers beautiful UI elements, like buttons, tabs, and menus for native macOS apps. Why did Craft have to design their own?

And I wouldn't be complaining if they weren't WORSE than the native ones.

The problem is not that the app is ugly or slow (although I think it is), it's that they know how to make something great, they just choose to give us the worse option.

I have a feeling that when craft does get ocr text search completed (they are currently working on this) and allow us to set our own start page (they are working on this one too) and treats notes as first class citizens (faster creation of notes, etc) that they are going to suddenly become unstoppable.

The Evernote import needs a little love as well but I do think this year and next that Craft app will be the one to watch. ;)

Hey everyone!

As part of our ongoing Spring clean-up, the next step is a set of quality-of-life improvements for Collections. No big new features this round, just a smoother, more polished experience, especially on mobile.

It's already live for beta users on native platforms, if you want to get an early access just DM me!

Wish all of you a great weekend!

The import docs cover importing from other apps, but not from a craft export

They also do not cover any overwrite or merge rules

Does anyone (Craft team, feel free to respond) know how this process works and what happens to pages that already exist

This becomes important If you want a second space or account as a backup

Thanks

I ended up bringing 360 notes from Apple Notes and Google Docs. Because they are all scattered, I thought I could use the built-in Assistant to organize things neatly into folders. It turns out it didn't do what I asked for, and it ended up gaslighting me into thinking that it could, which led me to consume all of my AI Quota on something useless! Is this something you can do in Craft using AI? I tried doing it with MCP, which I thought was read/write, but apparently, it is read-only. Does anyone know a way to make AI organize all of these notes into different folders?

Hey everyone! As a suggestion, I would really love the ability to mark any content as favorites, whether it’s subpages or items inside collections, since currently only the root document can be marked as a favorite.

A lot of the time, there’s specific content inside those documents that I need to work on frequently, and I don’t want to navigate page by page every time just to reach it.

I hope you can take this into consideration.

I use Craft Docs for interstitial journaling, and it works well—especially because its clean, neat UI helps stimulate my thinking.

However, I haven’t found a way to save all my Daily Notes in a single folder for easy reference later. My current workaround is to copy and paste the content into new notes and then save those notes into a folder. While this method has a gentle learning curve, it’s quite cumbersome.

I’m sure there must be a simpler way to do this. Could you please share your suggestions?

It would be nice to have access to more fonts, especially since two of them are very similar (I can barely tell Round and System apart). I think the app would look more beautiful and rich. Is this something the team is planning to add in the future?

Is there literally no way to move columns in collections? I see and find no option, quite a bummer

EDIT: resolved, thanks to u/Kind-News3775

>Open the collection dialog and select configure collection then you can rearrange the field order.

Hello folks, I just connected a space to claude via an mcp and it works but I can't get to figure out how to connect another / multiple spaces, anyone able to help?

I'm not sure if this is enough info but perhaps someone can relate

EDIT: I think I figured it out and connected from the other side (manually paste the craft mcp url in claude)

Last year (I think) it was stated OCR was coming, what arrived was an ai feature that isn’t really ocr in the sense understood for notes and search. Is actual OCR, like Evernote level OCR something that is planned for documents or is now is good as that will be?

Is there a way to link to files in local storage instead of embedding them in a document? I don't want to use extra tools like Hookmark, just what's available natively on MacOS. I realise that this will limit access to these files from other platforms. I'm willing to accept that restriction. At this point all I'm doing is storing the file path as text in the document, but that's a nuisance.

I keep dreaming of a workflow that would make Craft the perfect brain-dump app and second-brain system. It already has many of the right building blocks, but the connections and automation between them still feel limited.

My ideal workflow would look something like this:

- I quickly capture anything:

- web links

- screenshots

- voice memos

- tasks

- reminders

- quick thoughts

- Everything goes straight into a universal inbox with minimal friction.

- Later, during processing, I add tags, properties, or relations.

- Based on those tags/properties, items are then automatically collected into:

- folders

- collections

- dashboards

- documents

- project spaces

At the moment, Craft feels very close, but there are still some structural limitations:

- Tags are still quite limited and not deeply integrated into workflows.

- Collections are restricted inside their parent documents rather than acting globally.

- Shortcuts can append to documents, but not directly into collections/databases/views.

- Captured content cannot easily include active elements like mentions, backlinks, or relations during quick capture.

- There is still friction between “capture first” and “organize later.”

What I would love to see:

- A true global inbox

- More powerful tags/properties

- Dynamic smart collections based on filters

- Global collections/databases not tied to one document

- Better automation rules

- Shortcut support for adding structured objects directly into collections

- Ability to create mentions/backlinks/relations during capture

- More object-based workflows rather than purely document-based organization

Craft already has one of the best writing and UX experiences out there. These kinds of workflow improvements could make it an incredible PKM and second-brain platform as well.

Hi Craft team,

Please consider adding a Graph View feature similar to Obsidian.

It would help users visually see connections between documents, backlinks, folders, and linked pages. This would make Craft much stronger for personal knowledge management, research, study notes, and long-term knowledge organization.

A global graph and local graph for each document would be very useful.

Thanks for considering this feature.

I really enjoy using Craft Agents, I was looking for an opensource or free non vendor locked alternative to Codex and Craft Agents is simply the best in it's class. I don't see a lot of people talking about it which is interesting since it probably is the easiest to use Agentic platform compared to things like Hermes etc. Just posting this to make sure people know and good job Craft team!

Hi everybody,

I am new to Craft. I want to move the "Unsorted" out of the "Folders" section. I have tried everything but couldn't figure out. First I thought that it was impossible until I came across a Youtube video where Unsorted is visibly out of the folders section.

Could you please help me?

Captured from a Youtube video

How it looks now