
AI Is Moving Into the Workspace: Chat Is Just the Front Door
Cursor Projects, ChatGPT Work, and Slackforce Surfaces show why AI is becoming a persistent workspace with memory, permissions, artifacts, and a next step.
Ontoplano is a free, open-source life-management application that brings a person’s week, tasks, goals, habits, notes, bills, shopping lists, recipes, and reminders into one self-hostable workspace. It also exposes an MCP server, allowing Claude and other MCP-capable agents to read or update the user’s structured life data when the user chooses to create a token. The product is aimed at people who want a practical alternative to scattered productivity apps, as well as technical users who value ownership, mobile access, and optional AI rather than a mandatory assistant. Its Show HN launch and official documentation verify the self-hosting model, mobile/PWA support, permission system, MCP integration, and concrete data model. The hosted demo is currently invite-only, but the repository-based product remains identifiable and usable.
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