Your assistant

I'd like to connect Apricot, my to-do list app, to you as a custom connector (an MCP server), so you can read and update my lists for me. Please walk me through setting it up, one step at a time.

Here's what you need to know:

- Apricot's MCP server address is: https://www.apricot.so/api/mcp
- I already have an Apricot account, and I'm signed in to it in my web browser. When the connector is added, Apricot opens a page asking me to sign in and allow access, and I should choose Allow.
- Adding a custom connector is usually easier on a computer, in your desktop app or on your website, than on a phone. If I'm on my phone, tell me whether I should switch to a computer for the setup. Once it's connected, it should work on my phone too.
- Some assistants only let you add a custom connector once developer mode is switched on (ChatGPT, for example). If that applies to you, first tell me exactly where to turn it on.
- If you're Claude: Apricot is in Claude's connector directory at https://claude.ai/directory/apricot, so I can add it from there rather than as a custom connector.

Please:
1. Tell me if adding a custom connector needs a particular plan or setting in your app.
2. Give me the exact steps for your app: where the setting is, what to name the connector ("Apricot"), and where to paste the address.
3. Tell me what I'll see when Apricot asks me to sign in and allow access.
4. When it's connected, suggest something to try first, like "What's on my list this week?"

If you're not sure what a menu or button is called in your current version, say so and tell me what to look for, rather than guessing.

I use Apricot for my to-do lists, and I've connected it to you. Please write me a friendly, practical user guide to using Apricot through you: what I can ask you to do, example things to say, and how it all works.

Here's everything Apricot lets you do for me:

Lists
- Show my lists: my own, and ones other people have shared with me.
- Create a new list, rename one, or delete one I own. Deleting a list removes every task on it, for everyone it's shared with, so always check with me first.
- If I don't say which list, new tasks go on my primary list: the one I've starred in the Apricot app.

Tasks
- Add one task or lots at once (up to 100 in one go), e.g. "add milk, eggs and bread to Shopping".
- A task has a title, and can have notes, a due date, and a time on that day (e.g. "dentist on Thursday at 15:30"). Times are in my own local time.
- Change a task's title, notes, date, time or who it's assigned to. You can change several at once, e.g. "move everything due today to tomorrow".
- Make a task repeat: every day, every week on the days I choose (e.g. every Friday), every month on a date, on the last day or on e.g. the third Friday, or every year. When I finish one, the next is made for me. Each new one can stay hidden from my lists until a set time before it's due (on the day, or 1 day, 3 days, a week, 2 weeks, or 1, 2 or 3 months before). The Recurring page in the app shows them all, hidden ones too.
- Mark tasks done, reopen them, or archive finished ones to clear them away. Archived tasks are deleted for good after 90 days, and can be brought back before then.
- Delete tasks permanently. Ask me first: completing or archiving is usually better.

Seeing what's on
- What's open on one list or across all my lists, what's assigned to me, what I've finished, and what's in the archive.
- What's due on a day or between two dates, e.g. "what's on this week?" or "anything overdue?". Tasks come soonest first, and in time order within a day.
- In the Apricot app, any list can also be shown as a calendar, by week or month. On a shared list, each person's tasks are in their own colour.

Sharing and people
- Share a list I own with someone by email. Someone already in my People gets it straight away. Anyone else is emailed an invitation, and gets the list once they accept - accepting puts us in each other's People and, if they're new to Apricot, creates their account. Nothing is set up for them before.
- Stop sharing a list with someone. Their tasks on it are unassigned.
- See who's on a list, and assign a task to anyone on it.
- Email the people tasks are assigned to, so they know the work is theirs: one email each, listing all their tasks. Assigning a task doesn't email anyone on its own.
- Invite someone to my People (the people I work with, so I can share lists with them); they join when they accept. Or remove someone, which also takes them off my lists, or withdraw an invitation they haven't answered.
- Leave a list someone else shared with me.
- Always check with me before sharing, inviting, emailing or removing anyone, because it emails them or changes what they can see.

Reminders and "Your day"
- "Your day" is my daily email: what's due today in time order, anything overdue, what's due tomorrow, and my other tasks with the bell on. It's skipped on days with nothing in it.
- A task's bell starts on for whoever adds it and whoever it's assigned to. Turn it off to leave a task out of my Your day email, or back on. The bell is personal: on a shared list, it doesn't change anyone else's email.
- A task with a due time and the bell on is also emailed to me at that time, so "remind me at 5pm tomorrow" is a task due tomorrow at 17:00. I can switch those emails off in my Profile, or ask you to.
- Read or change my Your day settings: on or off, which days, what time, my timezone, and which lists it covers.

My plan
- Each plan limits how many lists I can own, how many open (unfinished) tasks each of my lists can hold, and how many actions you can take in Apricot for me each month. Every read or change you make counts as one, and the count resets on the 1st.
  - Free: 3 lists, 25 open tasks on each, each shared with up to 2 people, 300 assistant calls a month
  - Pro (£3.50 a month): 10 lists, 100 open tasks on each, each shared with up to 5 people, 1,500 assistant calls a month
  - Max (£12 a month): unlimited lists, 1,000 open tasks on each, each shared with up to 15 people, unlimited assistant calls
- Tasks count against the plan of whoever owns the list, whoever adds them. Finishing or archiving a task frees its place.
- If I own more lists than my plan includes (after moving to a smaller plan), only my first ones, in the order I've put them in the app, take new tasks. The others are paused: nothing on them is lost, and their tasks can still be finished, archived or deleted.
- You can check my plan and how much I've used, which helps if something says I've hit a limit.

Please put the guide together like this:
1. A short introduction: what Apricot is, and how you and Apricot work together.
2. A section for each area above, with 3 to 5 example requests, written the way I'd naturally say them.
3. Tips for getting good results, such as naming the list, giving a date and time together, putting several tasks in one message, and asking "what's on today?" each morning.
4. What you'll always check with me before doing (deleting, sharing, inviting or removing people).
5. Finally, look at my lists without changing anything, use their real names in a couple of your examples, and suggest one thing for me to try first.

If you can't reach Apricot right now, say so, and point me to https://www.apricot.so/help/your-assistant to connect it.