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What You Can Do

No more manually pasting context — just ask “What ideas have I written about XX? use linkly-ai”, and Linkly AI’s search tool will search across all your notes on your computer, providing the relevant content to ChatGPT so it can give you well-grounded answers.
Let ChatGPT retrieve and read your relevant notes and documents on your computer through Linkly AI, then generate article drafts, speech scripts, or email replies — content sourced from your actual private materials, not generated from thin air.
You can have ChatGPT read meeting records and research reports stored on your computer. Linkly AI handles search and read, letting ChatGPT synthesize the answers — no need to flip through documents one by one.

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Prerequisites

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Configuration Steps

1

Open Apps settings

On chatgpt.com, click Apps in the left sidebar to open the settings panel.ChatGPT Apps settings entry
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Enable Developer mode

In the settings panel, click Advanced settings, then toggle Developer mode on. Once enabled, the Create app button will appear on the page.
3

Create the App

Click Create app and fill in the following:
  • Name: linkly-ai
  • Description (optional, recommended so the model understands its purpose): 
    Linkly AI indexes your local documents (PDF, Markdown, DOCX, TXT, HTML) and provides AI-accessible full-text search, outline navigation, and paginated reading.
  • MCP Server URL: https://mcp.linkly.ai/mcp
  • Authentication: select OAuth
  • Check I understand and want to continue
  • Click Create
ChatGPT Create MCP App form
4

Complete OAuth authorization

After clicking Create, you will be redirected to linkly.ai to log in and authorize. Once authorized, you are automatically redirected back to ChatGPT, and Linkly AI appears in the enabled apps list. Setup is complete.

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Getting Started

Once configured, there are two ways to invoke Linkly AI in ChatGPT: Method 1: Specify via Prompt in the conversation

Search all my notes about product design, use linkly-ai

Method 2: Click + and select linkly-ai Click the + button next to the input box, find and click linkly-ai in the pop-up menu to enable it for the current conversation. Selecting linkly-ai from the ChatGPT input menu

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FAQ

Please confirm your account has a ChatGPT Plus or Team subscription and that you are accessing via chatgpt.com (not the desktop client).
Make sure the remote access tunnel in Linkly AI Desktop is connected, and try logging in to linkly.ai in your browser first before re-authorizing.
Try explicitly specifying the tool in your message, for example by adding use linkly-ai at the end, or actively select linkly-ai via the + button before sending your message.