Build a Reading Log with Craft

In this example, you’ll learn how to create a personal book and reading tracker in Craft. With the help of ChatGPT or Claude, you can capture excerpts and quotes easily, transcribing them directly from the book.

Step 1 — Create Your Doc

Our reading log is kept in a collection inside the Craft doc, where we track the book title and its author, some tags about its content as well as the date we started reading it and the date we finished it. Inside the items we can also add quotes and notes about the books. Of course you can adjust the collection and add fields for anything you would like to track.

Use the template to create a new doc with a collection for your reading log:

Reading Log

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Step 2 — Enable MCP Access

Enable MCP Access for your doc to get a unique URL that can be used to read from and add to your doc.

Step 1

Open the “Imagine” tab

Step 2

Click “Create Your First MCP Connection”

Step 3

Configure your MCP connection with a name.

Step 4

Click “Add Document” and select your Reading Log document.

Step 5

The MCP URL that will be used to interact with your document is now displayed at the top.

Step 3 — Set up the MCP Connection

Now let’s use the MCP URL to connect to the doc from a client:

A Claude Pro or Max subscription is required to add custom connectors.

Step 1

Go to Settings

Step 2

Select the “Connectors” section and click the “Add custom connector” button

Step 3

Give the connector a meaningful name and paste the MCP URL. Leave the OAuth Client ID and Client Secret fields in Advanced settings empty - Claude will handle authentication automatically if needed.