--- title: "Connect Grain to Workflowy - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Playlist\" fires in Grain, your agent runs \"Create Bullet\" in Workflowy." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-workflowy" --- # Connect Grain to Workflowy When **New Playlist** fires in [Grain](https://apiant.ai/connections/grain), your agent runs **Create Bullet** in [Workflowy](https://apiant.ai/connections/workflowy). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Grain **4** triggers Grain **22** actions Workflowy **10** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Grain and Workflowy to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Grain can start in Workflowy - When **New Playlist** in Grain then **Create Bullet** in Workflowy - When **New Upload** in Grain then **Update a bullet** in Workflowy Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Grain and Workflowy ## Triggers and actions 4 triggers ยท 32 actions - Trigger **New Playlist** Triggers when a new playlist is created in Grain. - Trigger **New Upload** Triggers when a new upload is created in Grain. - Trigger **Recording Added** Triggers when a new recording appears in your Grain account. - Trigger **Story Added** Triggers when a new story is created in Grain. - Action **Add Recording to Playlist** Adds a recording to a Grain playlist. - Action **Add Tag to Recording** Adds a tag to a Grain recording. - Action **Create Clip** Creates a clip from a time range of a Grain recording, snapped to whole transcript sentences. - Action **Create Playlist** Creates a Grain playlist. - Action **Delete Clip** Deletes a Grain clip. - Action **Delete Playlist** Deletes a Grain playlist. - Action **Get Playlist** Returns one Grain playlist. - Action **Get Recording** Returns one Grain recording with its participants and calendar details. - Action **Get Transcript** Returns the transcript of a Grain recording as speaker-labelled sections with timestamps. - Action **List Meeting Types** Returns the meeting types defined in your Grain workspace. - Action **List Playlists** Returns your Grain playlists, newest first, one page at a time. - Action **List Recordings** Returns your Grain recordings with their participants, optionally filtered by title or start time. - Action **List Stories** Returns your Grain stories, one page at a time. - Action **List Teams** Returns the teams in your Grain workspace. - Action **List Users** Returns the users in your Grain workspace, each with ID, name and email. - Action **Remove Recording from Playlist** Removes a recording from a Grain playlist. - Action **Remove Tag from Recording** Removes a tag from a Grain recording. - Action **Share Recording with Team** Shares a Grain recording with a team. - Action **Share Recording with User** Shares a Grain recording with a user in your workspace. - Action **Update Clip** Updates a Grain clip's title or time range. - Action **Update Playlist** Updates a Grain playlist's title or link access. - Action **Update Recording** Renames a Grain recording. - Action **Complete a bullet** Marks an existing Workflowy bullet as complete. Give it the bullet's ID; Workflowy checks the bullet off in place. - Action **Create Bullet** Creates a new bullet in Workflowy, optionally under a parent bullet, with its text, note, layout and position. - Action **Delete a bullet** Deletes a bullet from Workflowy by its ID, along with anything nested under it. - Action **Export all bullets** Returns the entire Workflowy outline for the account โ€” every bullet with its text, note and nested children. Workflowy allows one export per minute. - Action **Get a bullet** Returns one Workflowy bullet by its ID, including its text, note, parent, completion state and timestamps. - Action **List bullets** Lists Workflowy bullets โ€” the children of a given bullet, or the top-level bullets when no parent is given. - Action **List targets** Lists the saved target locations in Workflowy โ€” the places this connection is allowed to add bullets to. - Action **Move a bullet** Moves a Workflowy bullet under a different parent bullet, optionally at a specific position among its new siblings. - Action **Uncomplete a bullet** Un-checks a completed Workflowy bullet, putting it back to not-done. - Action **Update a bullet** Updates an existing Workflowy bullet's text, note or layout. Anything left blank is left as it is. ## Each app on its own - [ **Grain** Grain joins your calls to take notes, document the next steps, and file automated meeting notes in platforms...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grain) - [ **Workflowy** Workflowy is the place to collect your ideas, develop them, share them, and turn them into reality.](https://apiant.ai/connections/workflowy) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Grain - [ **Grain to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-hubspot) - [ **Grain to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-salesforce) - [ **Grain to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-slack) - [ **Grain to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-mailchimp) - [ **Grain to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-stripe) - [ **Grain to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grain-to-shopify) ## More into Workflowy - [ **Outlook to Workflowy** Outlook is Microsoft's email and calendaring platform integrating contacts and scheduling, enabling users to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/outlook-to-workflowy) - [ **Twist to Workflowy** Twist keeps your conversations on-topic and in one place.](https://apiant.ai/connect/twist-to-workflowy) - [ **HubSpot to Workflowy** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-workflowy) - [ **Salesforce to Workflowy** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-workflowy) - [ **Slack to Workflowy** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-workflowy) - [ **Google Sheets to Workflowy** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-workflowy) Questions ## Grain and Workflowy, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Grain? Any of Grain's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New Playlist, New Upload, Recording Added and Story Added. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Workflowy when something happens in Grain? Any of Workflowy's 10 actions, including Create Bullet, Update a bullet, Complete a bullet and Export all bullets. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Workflowy to Grain? Workflowy has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Grain. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Workflowy's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Grain or Workflowy? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Grain and Workflowy without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.