The question on almost every call
On calls with xTiles users, one question comes up again and again in different words: does xTiles connect to Slack? To Gmail? To my school's learning platform? To the calendar I already use?
The short answer is that xTiles works with the apps your AI tool already connects to. You make one connection, between xTiles and Claude or ChatGPT, and every app on the other side of that AI becomes something xTiles can show you. This guide explains why we built it that way and what it means in practice.
Why not build each integration ourselves
For a long time, the default answer was to integrate tools one at a time: a calendar here, an inbox there. The list never ends. Every team uses a slightly different stack, and every student, freelancer and parent has their own.
Meanwhile, Claude and ChatGPT already connect to a very long list of apps, and that list keeps growing without any work from us. So rather than rebuild those connections inside xTiles, we connected xTiles to the AI tools themselves.
How the pieces fit together
- Your apps — inbox, calendar, Slack or Teams, meeting notes, your school or work platforms.
- Your AI tool — Claude or ChatGPT, which you connect to those apps and to xTiles.
- xTiles — where the result lands: tiles on your daily page, tasks with due dates in My Planner, or a whole project.
The AI does the reading and the sorting. xTiles is the visual, actionable layer: something you can open tomorrow, scroll back through next week and check off, instead of a chat reply that scrolls out of view.
The connections to Gmail, Slack and the rest live in your AI tool, and you decide which ones to add. If you'd rather keep your inbox out of it, connect only your calendar and your notes. You can add more later.
Three ways people use one connection
A student's coursework. Chloe, a medical student, plans every day in My Planner with the calendar side by side. If your AI tool connects to the learning platform your school uses, the same idea applies to coursework: ask it to pull this week's deadlines and add them to xTiles as dated tasks, so they show up next to everything else in your week.
A day planned around your calendar. Sofia wanted a weekly to-do list matched against each day's schedule. With xTiles and the calendar both connected to Claude, a Daily Brief can do it every morning — and because xTiles can bring several calendars together, one brief can look at all of them. Here is how to have Claude plan your day.
An inbox turned into a dashboard. Geoffrey uses ChatGPT, not Claude. With Gmail and xTiles both connected, each email lands on the dashboard as a short summary with a link back to the thread. Here is how to build that dashboard.
Three different apps, three different AI setups, one xTiles on the receiving end. For the most common version of all — Slack, Gmail and calendar in one morning page — see one prompt, every tool.
Getting connected
Connect xTiles to your AI tool
In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, and search for xTiles. In ChatGPT, search for xTiles in its connector directory. Connecting Claude takes three clicks.
Connect the apps you want included
In the same place, add the apps you want your AI to read from: your inbox, calendar, Slack, meeting notes. Each one asks for your approval.
Start from a ready-made workflow
The xTiles workflows page has prompts for a daily brief, an inbox digest and more. Run one, review the draft, and say go ahead when it looks right.
Say how you want it to look
Ask for short tiles, a specific color, or tasks instead of notes. The result is yours to shape, and you can change the wording later.