1. Install the plugin
Open the AudioPen plugin in ChatGPT and choose Install plugin. You can also find it under Plugins in the ChatGPT sidebar.
AudioPen for ChatGPT
Ask ChatGPT about your AudioPen notes.
That idea from Tuesday's walk is somewhere in your AudioPen notes. Now ChatGPT can find it. The official AudioPen plugin lets ChatGPT search and read your notes while you chat, so you can stop pasting transcripts into the chat box. Ask what you said about a topic, or have it draft an email from a note. It can't change a word.
Part of AudioPen Prime. You don't need Developer mode or a server URL.
An example chat in ChatGPT, with made-up notes. Someone asks what they said about pricing in their AudioPen notes this week. ChatGPT searches their AudioPen notes and answers with the three notes it found, each with its day and the gist. The next chats list their tags and folders, then read back the original transcript of a note word for word.
Three steps
Install it once. Ask away.
2. Sign in to AudioPen
When ChatGPT asks, choose Connect, then enter the email on your AudioPen account and the one-time code we send you.
3. Ask about your notes
Ask in any chat. ChatGPT uses AudioPen when your question needs your notes, or type @AudioPen to pick it yourself.
What ChatGPT can reach
Your notes and your own words.
Every voice note comes in two versions. There's the clean writing AudioPen made, and the transcript of what you actually said. The rewrite keeps what mattered. The transcript keeps everything, including the tangent that turned out to be the idea. ChatGPT can read both.
It only reads. ChatGPT can't create, edit or delete a note, and it only sees the account you signed in with.
- Search your notes
- One search covers your notes, their titles, your original voice transcripts, and your tag and folder names.
- List your tags and folders
- Ask what you've been thinking about lately, and ChatGPT can start from how you've sorted your notes.
- Read a note in full
- One note, start to finish, with the transcript underneath.
Prompts to try
Put your talking to work.
You did the thinking out loud. Here are a few ways to get it back. Copy a prompt into ChatGPT and swap in your own topic.
Find what you said
“What did I say about marketing in my AudioPen notes this week?”
Sum up a theme
“Search my AudioPen notes for ‘reading’ and summarize what you find.”
Plan tomorrow
“Find my AudioPen notes about work from this week and build a plan for tomorrow, with breaks.”
Draft from a note
“Turn my AudioPen note about the offsite into an email to the team.”
Check your exact words
“Compare my ‘Book idea’ note with its original transcript. What did the rewrite leave out?”
See what you talk about
“What do I have notes about in AudioPen? List my tags and folders.”
Your account and your data
What ChatGPT sees, and what it keeps.
Your login stays with AudioPen
You sign in on AudioPen's side, with a code we email you. ChatGPT never sees your AudioPen login.
It may ask first
Before it reads your notes, ChatGPT may ask for your OK.
OpenAI's rules apply to what it reads
AudioPen never trains AI on your notes. On Free, Go, Plus and Pro, OpenAI may train on what a plugin reads if “Improve the model for everyone” is on, so switch it off if you'd rather it didn't. On Business, Enterprise and Edu it doesn't by default. With Memory on, ChatGPT may remember relevant information it read.
Disconnect any time
In ChatGPT, open Settings, then Plugins, choose AudioPen and select Disconnect. ChatGPT can't reach your notes after that. Disconnecting doesn't automatically delete chats where it already read them.
Using Claude or another assistant? Connect it with the setup guide, or connect any MCP client to the AudioPen MCP server.
More integrations
More places your notes can go.
Notion
Your AudioPen notes land in a Notion database automatically, with folders and tags as columns and your exact words underneath.
Obsidian
The official AudioPen plugin saves every note as a Markdown file in your vault.
Claude and other assistants
Connect Claude or any MCP client, and it can search and read your notes while you chat. Read-only.
Zapier
Send each new note to Google Docs, Sheets, Slack or thousands of other apps.
Webhooks
Post every new note to a URL of your choice and build your own workflow on top.
Questions
Everything you might want to know
Straight answers to the questions people ask before they start.