Why this setup exists: one hour lost before work even starts
The setup below exists because of a pattern that came up across dozens of user conversations and surveys: people open their phone in the morning to a scatter of messages, email, calendar, and tasks spread across different apps, all equally urgent-looking, and spend the first hour of the day just figuring out where to start. That's an hour spent preparing to work, not working. Connecting Claude to xTiles is aimed directly at collapsing that hour into a single automated summary.
Step 1: Find xTiles in the Claude connectors directory
xTiles is now a verified connector in Claude's directory. In Claude, go to Customize → Connectors and search for xTiles, or open the xTiles listing directly. Verified listings have been reviewed by Anthropic for quality and compatibility before being added to the directory.
Step 2: Click Connect
Click Connect on the xTiles listing. There's no MCP URL to copy or paste, and no custom connector setup — the directory entry handles that automatically. This is the same one-click flow as any other verified connector in Claude.
Step 3: Sign in and allow access
Sign in to your xTiles account when prompted, then click Allow access. That's the whole setup — no JSON files, no code. You only need to do this once; after that, the connector is available across all your devices.
The first thing to ask Claude once it's connected
Rather than guessing what's possible, just ask directly: "Tell me what I can do with the xTiles MCP connector. Suggest a useful workflow for me based on my recent chats with you." Claude will walk through the available actions — creating and updating pages, managing tasks, reading your planner — and suggest a starting point based on your own context instead of a generic feature list.
What it looks like in practice: a morning brief
One of the most common first workflows is a daily brief: Claude pulls key items from inbox, chat, and calendar, then builds a summary tile directly on your xTiles daily page — messages that need a reply, tasks that were overdue and never got moved forward, meetings worth prepping for. Instead of opening five apps to reconstruct the picture, it's already there when the page loads. xtiles.app/en/imagine has short demo videos of this and other ready-made workflows if you want to see one before running it yourself.
No more custom connector or manual MCP URL
Earlier setup required adding xTiles as a custom connector and pasting its MCP address by hand. With xTiles verified in the Claude directory, that step is gone — connecting is the same one-click experience as any other listed connector, and the three steps above are the entire process from start to finish.