TabTree

Mind maps, kanban boards and whiteboards — one document, many views, in your account.

Live demo — no signup · tabtree.app · Templates · Claude connector

What it is

TabTree is a mind-mapping, kanban and whiteboard app at tabtree.app. One document reads several ways: mind map, kanban board, Gantt chart, calendar, page of notes, spreadsheet or full-screen presentation. Switch views; nothing is converted and nothing is lost.

This repository

TabTree itself is a commercial product and its source is not published here. This repository is the public face of it, and it holds four things that are useful on their own:

• mcp/ — the full source of the Claude connector, free to use, copy, redistribute and modify (its own licence, no attribution required), and the same code published to npm as tabtree-mcp.
• plugins/tabtree/ — a Claude Code plugin: a facilitation skill that ends in a real document, plus the connector. See Claude Code plugin below.
• templates/ — template outlines in plain Markdown, each with a link that opens it live. Paste them into TabTree, or into any outliner.
• screenshots/ — rendered by the real app, not mocked up.

To see the app itself, try the demo — it runs in your browser, with nothing to install and no signup.

Claude connector

Let Claude read your TabTree library and turn a conversation, a transcript or a spec into a real mind map, kanban board or whiteboard — in your account, on every device, and in the team spaces you belong to.

1. Get your connector key. In TabTree: ⚙️ Settings → Account → Claude connector → Create a connector key. It is shown once and starts with tt_live_.

2. Claude Desktop — double-click. Download TabTree-Connector.mcpb (or from tabtree.app/connector) and double-click it. Claude Desktop ships its own Node and asks for your key on its install screen.

Claude Code, or any MCP client:

claude mcp add tabtree --scope user -e TABTREE_API_KEY="tt_live_…" -- npx -y tabtree-mcp

Or in your client's config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tabtree": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "tabtree-mcp"],
      "env": { "TABTREE_API_KEY": "tt_live_…" }
    }
  }
}

Eight tools: list_maps, read_map, search_maps, create_mindmap, create_board (with your own images — logos, photos, posters), create_kanban, propose_changes and harvest. The connector never overwrites or deletes a map. Safe changes to an existing map (add a card, move it, tick it, assign it, date it) are applied by TabTree itself while it is open, and Cmd+Z undoes them; anything that rewrites or removes what someone wrote is shown to you first, as a banner on that map. Full detail in mcp/README.md.

Claude Code plugin

A skill that does not end in advice — it ends in a document in your TabTree account.

/plugin marketplace add ai4xedu/tabtree-mcp
/plugin install tabtree@tabtree

It is written in French: it was built to run real workshops, and that is the language it runs in. The canvas it produces follows the map's own language.

The plugin starts the connector, so it needs your connector key in TABTREE_API_KEY:

export TABTREE_API_KEY="tt_live_…"

Without it the connector says so plainly. If you only want the connector and not the skill, the double-click .mcpb bundle is the simpler route.

Screenshots

The same document as status columns — every card is still a node of the map.

Arrows stay attached to the boxes when you move them.

A shared map, as your reader sees it.

Images and reasoning on one canvas.

Radial layout, dark theme.

Licence

Different licences, and the distinction matters:

• The connector in mcp/ is free to use, copy, redistribute and modify, for any purpose — see mcp/LICENSE.md. It is given away on purpose.
• The skill in plugins/tabtree/ is free on the same terms, commercial workshops included — see plugins/tabtree/LICENSE.md. It has a separate licence because the connector's own text says it covers the connector only.
• The app is a commercial service at tabtree.app; its source is not in this repository.
• The template outlines are yours to copy and adapt freely.

Made in Casablanca. tabtree.app