Task Managers With an MCP Server (2026): Which Ones Work With Claude?

Todoist, Notion, Asana, Linear, and ClickUp have official MCP connections that let Claude work with their data. SelfManager.ai also has an official MCP server, which works with Claude, ChatGPT and any other app that supports MCP. The right choice depends on whether you manage a personal task list, daily work records, documents, team projects, or software issues.

An MCP connection can let Claude retrieve real tasks and take supported actions inside the app. But the available tools, permissions, plan requirements, and usage limits differ.

The useful question is what you want Claude to do with your work after you connect it.

Task Managers with Official MCP Servers at a Glance

Availability and capabilities checked October 2026. This is a comparison of documented integrations, not a hands-on performance ranking. A documented Claude connection does not guarantee identical behavior in every Claude client.

What is an MCP Server for a Task Manager?

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It gives AI applications a standard way to connect to external tools and information.

For task management, the server can expose actions such as finding tasks, reading project details, creating work, or updating a status. Claude uses the tools the server provides, subject to the connection's access.

For example, you might ask:

Find my unfinished tasks for this week, group them by project, and suggest what to tackle first. Do not change anything yet.

Claude can retrieve the task information instead of relying on a list you pasted into the conversation.

MCP itself does not specify which task actions an app must offer. A connection might support reading and creating tasks while leaving other features available only in the app.

Official Servers Versus Community-built Servers

An official server is provided or maintained by the product's developer. A community-built server is created by someone else, often using the product's API.

Both can be useful, but the distinction matters when choosing a connection:

• Who maintains it? Look for documentation from the product itself.
• Where does it run? A hosted server connects remotely; a local server or bridge may require software on your computer.
• How do you authorize it? Check whether it uses an account sign-in flow or a credential you supply.
• Which actions are implemented? API access does not mean the server exposes every product feature.

All six options covered here have vendor-provided MCP connections. A directory listing alone is not enough to establish that a different server is official.

1. Todoist: A Practical Fit for Everyday Task Lists

Todoist provides an official hosted MCP server and a documented connector for Claude. Its developer platform says the MCP server is free to use with any Todoist account.

The connection supports reading, creating, updating, and completing tasks, along with project management and other task organization actions.

A useful request: “Find the unfinished tasks in Website updates, then add a task to check the contact form tomorrow.”

This is a practical fit if Todoist already holds your commitments and you want to capture or reorganize them while talking to Claude.

Watch the action wording: Todoist specifically distinguishes changing a recurring task's date from rescheduling it. Its guide says “reschedule” preserves the recurrence, while “change the date” can remove the repeat schedule.

The connection also supports deletion. State clearly when you only want a review or proposed changes.

Choose it if: You want Claude to work with an existing personal or shared task list without adopting a broader workspace.

2. Notion: A Fit for Tasks Connected to Documents

Notion MCP connects Claude to pages and workspace content. Its tools support searching, fetching information, and creating or updating pages.

That makes it useful when tasks depend on documents, briefs, meeting notes, or database entries.

A useful request: “Read the approved launch brief, identify the remaining actions, and draft a checklist in the project page.”

The value comes from keeping the supporting information and the resulting work close together.

Check the plan limits: Notion's MCP documentation describes plan-dependent access, restricted parameters, and metered capabilities. Search can fall back to keyword search when AI search is unavailable. AI search across connected sources requires the relevant Notion AI access.

Connecting an external assistant through MCP is also a different feature from using Notion's built-in AI. Do not assume every MCP capability follows the same subscription rules.

Choose it if: Your tasks live alongside substantial reference material in Notion, and you want Claude to work with that context.

3. Asana: A Fit for Team Projects and Assigned Work

Asana's official V2 MCP server connects to Claude and exposes tools for reading and changing workspace data.

It can retrieve tasks and project information, create tasks, update work, add comments, and produce project status updates.

A useful request: “Review the open tasks in the website project and draft a status update separating completed work from blockers.”

Asana's documentation distinguishes direct write tools from interactive tools. In Claude, creation previews can let you review a proposed task or project before it is committed. Other write tools can act directly.

The server also exposes a permanent task deletion tool. A preview is therefore a feature of particular tools, not a guarantee that every possible write action uses one.

Choose it if: Your team's work already depends on Asana projects, ownership, and task relationships.

Consider the workflow first: A solo user with a small daily list may not need this amount of project structure simply to connect an assistant.

4. Linear: A Fit for Software Issues and Projects

Linear's official remote MCP server supports finding, creating, and updating issues, projects, and comments. Its documentation and integration page provide Claude setup instructions.

A useful request: “Find the open issues related to checkout, group them by theme, and draft a new issue for the missing validation.”

For a software team already using Linear, the advantage is working with the same issue records that guide development.

A notable option is its dedicated read-only connection. Linear also documents read-only access through the read OAuth scope on the standard connection.

That lets you evaluate questions and summaries before deciding whether the assistant should be able to make changes.

Choose it if: Your work is organized around software issues and development projects.

Consider another option if: You mainly want to organize personal errands, daily routines, and general work notes. MCP support does not change the underlying purpose of the product.

5. ClickUp: A Fit for Several Kinds of Work in One Workspace

ClickUp's official MCP server supports workflows involving tasks, Docs, comments, and time records. Its documented capabilities include creating tasks, searching work, posting updates, and starting or stopping timers.

A useful request: “Find unfinished launch tasks, summarize the relevant comments, and identify where recorded time has gone.”

This can be useful if your team already keeps several parts of its workflow in ClickUp.

Check usage limits: ClickUp MCP is available on all plans, but its limits depend on the workspace plan and whether the Everything AI add-on is purchased. Without that add-on, the Free Forever plan has a shared allowance of 100 MCP calls per rolling 24 hours.

One conversation can involve multiple calls, so 100 calls does not mean 100 conversations. Other connected MCP clients use the same workspace pool.

Choose it if: You already use ClickUp's broader workspace and want Claude to work across its supported records.

6. SelfManager.ai: A Fit for Dated Tasks and Daily Work History

SelfManager.ai has an official MCP server. It works with Claude (chat, the desktop and mobile apps, and Claude Code), ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, LM Studio and any other app that supports remote MCP servers, all through the same address. Its MCP page has the steps for each, and Introducing SelfManager.ai v7 shows what people do with it.

The connection works with the app's date-based structure: days contain tables, and tables contain tasks, notes, comments, images, voice recordings and docs.

A useful request: “Create a table for tomorrow called Launch prep with three tasks: write the changelog, record the demo, and prepare the announcement.”

For someone who organizes work by day, the benefit is that the assistant acts on dated work records rather than producing another disconnected list in a chat.

What it can do

• Read your work: a day's tables with their tasks, progress, and tracked time; any range of days, years included; weekly or monthly totals; one table with its notes, deadlines, and comments; every comment and every table's notes at once, as All › Comments and All › Notes list them; your pinned tables, deadlines, and repeating tables; your journal; your AI History; the tables shared with you and the ones you share, with who is on each; and your AI credits and what used them.
• Search: your own tables by a word or phrase in their names, tasks, or notes, over any dates.
• Plan ahead: create one table, or up to 1,000 tables in a single request on any days. “Plan my next 3 months of workouts on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday” is one request.
• Work through the day: add up to 200 tasks at a time, mark tasks done, change a task's priority or progress, record how long a task took, and set or remove deadlines and reminders.
• Write things down: add a comment, add to a table's notes, or add to or rewrite your journal (your daily Self message), whose old line is kept for you to bring back.
• Organize tables: rename a table, change its description, or make it your homepage table; pin and unpin tables; copy a table as the app's Duplicate does; and, with the delete permission, move a table of yours that nobody else sees to another day.
• Change routines: make a repeating table, edit one as the Repeats page does (what new copies start with, the schedule, the end date, or pausing and resuming it), or, with the delete permission, delete one, keeping the tables it already made.
• See images and read recordings: with its own permission, view images and read voice recordings' transcripts, with who added each. It cannot play recordings.
• Read docs: with its own permission, list the docs on any table you can see (PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more), with who added each, and read their text. It never gets the file itself. Docs go with a table it copies, moves or deletes.
• Clean up: with the delete permission, delete one thing at a time: a task, a comment, an image, a recording, a doc, a table's notes, a repeating table (the tables it made stay) or a day's journal line (kept, so you can bring it back), and a whole table only after showing you what is in it. A doc, or a table with docs, also needs the docs permission.
• Use your AI History: read the AI Reviews and chats you saved, and save its own review or chat there, marked with its name.

Apps that show MCP prompts also offer five ready-made ones: What's on today, Plan my week, Weekly review, Turn this into a routine, and What can I ask? In Claude, they are in the + menu.

How SelfManager.ai organizes work

Every day has its own tables, and nothing moves to the next day by itself. To carry unfinished tasks forward, ask the assistant to add them to tomorrow. Routines are repeating tables, so each day they repeat on gets its own fresh copy.

Tasks have progress, not just done or not done. Besides completed, a task can be checked a little, done something, or almost completed (25%, 50%, and 75% toward the table's progress), looked over, or canceled, and priority runs from critical to optional. Notes are one document per table, comments are the conversation with the people you share a table with, and the journal is one private line per day.

You choose the permissions

When you connect, SelfManager.ai shows what the assistant asks for, and you decide:

• Read: always on.
• Make changes: ticked unless you untick it, so you can connect it read-only.
• Images and voice recordings: off unless you tick it.
• Docs: off unless you tick it. With it, the assistant reads the text of the docs on tables you can see.
• Tables other people can see: off unless you tick it. With it, the assistant can add tasks, comments, and notes there, and set deadlines that remind everyone on the table.
• Delete, move tables, and reset task times: off unless you tick it.
• Your journal: included when the assistant asks for it.

To change them later, remove SelfManager in your assistant and connect again.

Changes remain visible

• Each change to an existing table adds a line to that table's log, if the table keeps one (new tables do), ending in the app's name, such as “(via Claude)”. Everyone on the table sees it.
• A comment the assistant writes shows “via Claude” next to your name, so the people you share with know.
• The Assistant activity page lists what your apps changed in the last 30 days, even after you disconnect them.
• SelfManager.ai sends you a notice whenever a new app connects or a personal API key is made.
• Disconnecting in My Profile → Connected apps stops the connection within about a minute.

The assistant gets only the SelfManager.ai data it asks for on your behalf. Its provider, such as Anthropic for Claude, handles that data under its own terms, and SelfManager.ai never sees your conversation with the assistant.

The limits matter

The MCP connection deletes only with its own permission, which is off unless you tick it: one thing at a time, each flagged for the assistant to ask you first, in tables only you can see (in a shared table, only your own comment). A day's journal line it clears is kept for you to bring back, and a whole table is deleted only after the assistant shows you what is in it.

It cannot share tables, invite anyone, or change roles. In a table you share, it can @mention people on it, only with the permission for tables other people can see, and each gets the notice marked with the assistant's name. It also cannot turn a table's log off, change the settings of a table other people can see, or run SelfManager's own AI. It sees only your account, and nothing you cannot see in the app.

Some supported edits still change existing records. Reopening a task clears its recorded time, and editing a repeating table can replace the starting tasks and notes in relevant copies. SelfManager flags those actions for the assistant to ask first.

Usage limits apply as well: 60 requests a minute, and in a day up to 100 deletions, 10 whole-table deletions, 50 copied or moved tables, and 50 deadlines set for everyone. A connection ends after 60 days without use.

Claude analysis is separate from the app's AI Review

Claude can use retrieved information to answer questions about your work. That is different from invoking SelfManager's built-in AI Plan or AI Review, which remain in the app.

Claude can read the reviews you saved to AI History and save its own there. If you ask Claude to review your week, be clear about the date range and what information it should retrieve. Do not assume it has automatically run the app's review feature.

Your own tools and scripts

Beyond assistants, you can make a personal API key under My Profile → Connected apps and send it to the same address. A key is shown once, lasts 30, 90, or 365 days, and can do only what you chose for it. Its changes are marked “via an AI assistant”.

Choose it if: You want an assistant to work with your dated task tables, routines, and work history.

To connect, follow the steps on the SelfManager MCP page. An active plan is required, and the seven-day trial counts.

How to Connect a Task Manager to Claude

For a documented hosted connection, the general process is:

1. Open Claude's Connectors area.
2. Find the app in the directory, or follow the vendor's instructions for adding its remote MCP connection.
3. Sign in to the task manager and review the access being requested.
4. Enable the connector for the conversation if needed.
5. Ask a small, specific question before requesting changes.

Claude's current documentation supports remote custom connectors on Free, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise. Free accounts are limited to one custom connector. Organization settings can affect who is allowed to add one.

Use the vendor's current setup guide. Some older instructions describe local configuration or bridges that may be unnecessary for your current Claude account.

For SelfManager.ai, the address is https://api.selfmanager.ai/mcp. In Claude on the web or the desktop app, open Settings → Connectors, select Add custom connector, name it SelfManager, paste the address, and select Connect. Then sign in to SelfManager, choose what Claude may do, and select Allow.

In Claude Code, run this command in your terminal, then type /mcp in Claude Code to sign in:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user selfmanager https://api.selfmanager.ai/mcp

In ChatGPT, turn on developer mode in Settings, add a connector named SelfManager with the same address, connect it, then sign in to SelfManager, choose what ChatGPT may do, and select Allow.

Cursor, VS Code, LM Studio and other MCP apps add the same address as a remote (HTTP) MCP server. The SelfManager MCP page keeps the current steps for each.

Start with Three Practical Requests

You do not need an elaborate automation to find out whether a connection is useful.

First: read the work

Show my unfinished work for today. Include the project or table name and any recorded priority. Do not change anything.

Check whether the response refers to the correct records. Resolve ambiguous names before moving on.

Second: add one specific task

Add “Check the contact form” to [exact project or table] for [exact date]. Tell me where you added it.

Open the task manager and verify the result. Make sure the date and destination mean what you intended.

Third: make one clearly identified update

Mark “Check the contact form” complete in [exact project or table]. Leave other tasks unchanged.

If there are duplicates, ask Claude to show the matches before updating one.

These requests test the part that matters: whether conversation reliably reaches the right work record.

What Does Using MCP Cost?

Separate three possible costs: the task manager subscription, the assistant subscription, and any usage charges or limits attached to the connection.

Todoist's developer documentation says its MCP server is free to use with any account. Other products apply their own plan and tool restrictions. An included connection does not necessarily mean unlimited usage.

SelfManager.ai's AI credits

For SelfManager.ai, Individual costs $8 per month or $72 per year. Team costs $30 per month or $300 per year, with unlimited free collaborators. Individual includes 35 AI credits a week, and Team 70 for the whole team. They renew every Monday at 00:00 UTC and are used before credits you buy.

Extra credits cost $0.05 each, from 50 credits ($2.50), and never expire. The same credits pay for SelfManager's own AI features, at one price for every assistant.

What an assistant's request costs depends on what it does:

• Free (0 credits)
  • Reading a day, a table or a list (every comment and every table's notes too), your journal, a repeating table, your AI History, what is shared, or your AI credits and usage
  • Ticking, editing, or reopening tasks, recording how long one took, and setting or removing deadlines
  • Pinning tables, changing a table's settings, and editing a repeating table
  • Listing images, recordings and docs, reading a recording's transcript, and reading a doc's text
  • Deleting, and resetting a table's task times
• From 1 AI credit a request
  • Reading several days or totals: a long range is read a page at a time, and each page is one request
  • Searching your tables
  • Seeing an image
  • Adding a table, a repeating table, tasks, a comment, notes, or a journal line, rewriting a journal line, or saving a conversation to AI History
  • Copying or moving a table, charged only once it is done
• Adding a lot at once
  • Tasks: 1 AI credit per 25 added, and a new table's first 25 come with it
  • Tables: 1 AI credit per 10 when it makes many at once, so 30 daily tables of up to 25 tasks each cost 3 credits
  • At most 1,000 tables in one request, each with up to 200 tasks

With no credits left, a request that costs credits does nothing and the assistant says so, while free requests keep working. Each charged request appears on the AI Usage page with the app's name.

Those charges are separate from Claude's own account limits. Check both sides when evaluating the workflow.

Which One Should You Choose?

Start with the task manager that already holds your real work. Connecting it is usually a more useful first experiment than migrating everything for an MCP feature.

• Choose Todoist for a personal or shared task list.
• Choose Notion for tasks connected to documents and databases.
• Choose Asana for team projects and assigned work.
• Choose Linear for software issues and development projects.
• Choose ClickUp for a broader workspace containing tasks, Docs, comments, and time records.
• Choose SelfManager.ai for dated tables, routines, and daily work history, with permissions you choose and clearly marked assistant changes.

If you are still choosing a task manager, evaluate its normal interface too. You will still need to inspect work, correct details, and use features that the connector does not expose.

Final Verdict

MCP makes task managers more useful inside Claude by connecting conversation to actual records and supported actions. The strongest option is the one whose data structure matches your work and whose tools cover the actions you need.

Todoist, Notion, Asana, Linear, and ClickUp provide official connections with different strengths. SelfManager.ai adds an option for people who want Claude to work with their dated tasks, routines, notes, and history.

If that matches your workflow, connect it from the SelfManager MCP page. Start by asking about today's work, then add or complete one task and inspect the result.

FAQ

Which task managers have official MCP servers for Claude?

Todoist, Notion, Asana, Linear, and ClickUp have official MCP connections with documented Claude support. SelfManager.ai has an official MCP server that works with Claude, ChatGPT and any other app that supports MCP.

Do I need to know how to code to use an MCP connection?

Usually not for a hosted server with a documented connector and account sign-in flow. Local servers, custom clients, or older configuration methods can require technical setup. Follow the vendor's instructions for the Claude client you use.

Can Claude delete tasks through MCP?

It depends on the server and granted access. Todoist documents deletion, and Asana exposes a permanent task deletion tool. SelfManager.ai deletes only with a separate permission that is off unless you tick it: one thing at a time, in tables only you can see (in a shared table, only your own comment); a journal line it clears or rewrites is kept for you to bring back. Certain edits can also clear or replace existing data. Linear offers a dedicated read-only connection.

Does MCP give Claude access to every feature in an app?

No. Claude can use the tools the server exposes, within the connection's permissions and applicable plan limits. Some features remain available only in the task manager's own interface.

Can I connect SelfManager.ai to Claude now?

Yes. In Claude, open Settings → Connectors, add a custom connector with https://api.selfmanager.ai/mcp, sign in to SelfManager and allow it. The SelfManager MCP page has the steps for every app. You need an active plan or the seven-day trial.

What can Claude do in SelfManager.ai through MCP?

It can read your days, tables, totals, deadlines, routines, journal, and AI History, and search your tables. If you allow changes, it can create tables (up to 1,000 in one request), add and complete tasks, record time, set deadlines, add comments and notes, rewrite a journal line (the old one is kept), make and change routines, copy tables, and save reviews to AI History. Seeing images and transcripts, reading docs, writing in tables other people can see, and deleting each need their own permission.

Which AI apps can connect to SelfManager.ai?

Claude (including Claude Code), ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, LM Studio and any other app that supports remote MCP servers, all through the same address. Your own tools and scripts can use a personal API key.

How much does SelfManager.ai's MCP connection cost?

It uses the AI credits included in your plan: 35 a week on Individual and 70 a week for a Team. Reading one thing, ticking and editing tasks, and deleting are free. Reading several days or totals, searching, seeing an image, copying or moving a table, and adding anything new cost from 1 AI credit a request. Extra credits cost $0.05 each.

How can I tell what Claude changed in SelfManager.ai?

Each change to a table that keeps a log adds a line ending in “(via Claude)”, comments it writes show “via Claude”, and the Assistant activity page lists what each app changed in the last 30 days.