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Reflective — AI journaling companion built with Notion MCP and Claude

Reflective — AI journaling companion built with Notion MCP and Claude

via Dev.toNeema Adam

This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge What I Built Reflective is a Chrome extension + Node.js backend that adds an AI journaling companion to your browser sidebar while you write in Notion. Most journaling tools are write-only. You pour thoughts in, they sit there. Reflective makes your Notion journal a two-way conversation — without leaving the page. How it works: You write in Notion ↓ Click "Analyze this entry" in the sidebar ↓ Claude reads your entry + your journal history from Notion ↓ Opens a conversation grounded in what you actually wrote ↓ Click "Mark session complete" ↓ Mood score, tags, themes, and AI summary written back to Notion Key behaviors: Sits in the Chrome side panel alongside Notion — no new tabs Context-aware: on a database view it loads your last 50 entries; on a single entry it reads just that page Temporal awareness: if you're reading an old entry, Claude knows — it frames responses as looking back, not as if it's today One conversation across the wh

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