# Connect Cursor to LotsNotes

Canonical page: https://lotsnotes.com/agents/cursor
Steps checked: 2026-10-01

Ask Cursor to read your business context in LotsNotes before it works, and keep it current. Add LotsNotes to Cursor as a remote MCP server and sign in once.

MCP server URL: https://api.lotsnotes.com/mcp
REST API docs: https://api.lotsnotes.com/docs
Setup instructions for your agent: https://lotsnotes.com/skill.md

## What you can do once connected

- List your workspaces and folders, find notes by title and read only the notes the task needs. Workspace notes come back with every folder, so a workspace AGENTS.md reaches every agent.
- Create and update shared notes, move notes and folders, and create folders inside folders. Every note it returns carries its lotsnotes.com link.
- Read a note’s version history, restore an earlier version, and archive or restore notes and folders.
- Act as you, with your role: it sees only the folders you can access, and private notes are never returned to agents or the API.

The LotsNotes dashboard does the whole job too: write and organize notes, folders, workspaces and your team. Your agent for speed, the dashboard for control.

## You need

- Cursor (any plan)
- A LotsNotes account. You can create one during sign-in.

## Connect Cursor to LotsNotes

1. **Open MCP settings.** Open the Customize page from the Cursor sidebar, or edit ~/.cursor/mcp.json directly.

2. **Add LotsNotes.** Add this server to your mcp.json.

```
{ "mcpServers": { "lots-notes": { "url": "https://api.lotsnotes.com/mcp" } } }
```

3. **Sign in.** Cursor asks you to sign in the first time it connects. Finish the sign-in in your browser.

## What to ask next

- “Read our AGENTS.md and the Marketing folder before you write anything”
- “Save this decision to the Product folder and send me the link”
- “Update the pricing FAQ note with today’s change”
- “Read our AGENTS.md and the Engineering folder before you change anything”
- “Save this architecture decision to the Engineering folder and send me the link”

## Questions and troubleshooting

### How do I connect Cursor to LotsNotes?

Follow the Cursor setup above to add https://api.lotsnotes.com/mcp. Complete sign-in using the authentication method shown. Then ask “List my LotsNotes workspaces”.

### Where do I put the LotsNotes server in Cursor?

In ~/.cursor/mcp.json under mcpServers, or from the Customize page. Use the URL https://api.lotsnotes.com/mcp; Cursor opens the sign-in in your browser on first use.

### Do I need an API key to use LotsNotes with Cursor?

No. Cursor signs in to LotsNotes in your browser. API keys are for the REST API, for scripts and your own apps.

### What does LotsNotes cost?

Current plans and prices are on https://lotsnotes.com/pricing. Your agent’s own plan or usage fees are separate.

### Can my agent read my private notes?

No. Private notes stay on lotsnotes.com and are never returned through MCP or the API. Shared notes follow your workspace roles.

### Can my agent change or delete my notes?

Your agent can edit shared notes in the folders your role can edit, and it can trash or archive notes, delete a folder or, for a workspace you own, archive it. Notes and folders can be restored, a workspace you archive can be restored for 30 days, and every save keeps a version you can restore.

### What stops two agents overwriting each other?

An agent can send the version it last read with a save. If the note changed since, the save is refused, and the agent reads it again and merges. Version history keeps every save either way.

### Which folders can my agent see?

Your agent acts as you, with your role, so it sees only the workspaces and folders you can access. If you were given access to selected folders only, your agent sees those folders and no others.

### The server shows an error

Check the URL ends in /mcp, then reload the server from the Customize page to restart the sign-in.

## Sources

- [Cursor: MCP](https://cursor.com/docs/context/mcp)