Policy question
A new hire asks how to claim travel expenses. Memtro searches Outline, finds the Expenses policy in the People collection, reads the relevant section and answers with a link to the document.
Outline + Memtro
Search your Outline wiki and know what changed, without opening it.
Connect Outline, cloud or self-hosted, with an API key and Memtro lists collections and their documents, searches the wiki with a snippet around each match, reads a document's markdown in full, and sees what changed recently and who edited it. Every hour the sync remembers each document created or updated. When asked, and once an administrator has granted each action by name, it creates, edits, moves, copies, archives and restores documents, comments and resolves threads, and creates or changes collections. Edits notify subscribers, and a permanent delete, or deleting a collection with every document in it, cannot be undone.
In Memtro
What you can do with Outline in Memtro
Ask in plain English from chat, your editor, a scheduled job or your own agent. The model picks the right Outline tool, reads what it needs, and answers with the source cited.
What it does
- 01Collections the key can see, and the documents in each with status, author and last editor
- 02Search the wiki or one collection, with a snippet around each match, and read any document's full markdown
- 03What changed recently: documents by last edit with who edited each and a preview
- 04Hourly sync remembers each document created or updated, in which collection, by whom and when
- 05When asked and granted, creates, edits, publishes or unpublishes, moves, copies, archives or restores documents, comments, replies and resolves threads, and stars a document for the key's owner
- 06When asked and granted, deletes a document to the trash, or permanently when told to, and creates, renames or permanently deletes a collection with every document in it
Acts when asked
When you ask it to
These tools change something in Outline. The model is told to use them only when you ask for exactly that, and an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it; a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
- 01Create a document in a collection
- 02Edit a document's title or text, or publish a draft
- 03Unpublish a document back to a draft
- 04Move a document to another collection or parent
- 05Copy a document
- 06Archive a document
- 07Delete a document (to the trash, or permanently when asked)
- 08Restore an archived or deleted document, or an earlier revision
- 09Comment on a document or reply to a comment
- 10Resolve a comment thread
- 11Star a document for the key's owner
- 12Create a collection
- 13Rename a collection or change its description, icon or colour
- 14Delete a collection and every document in it
Events
When it happens
Turn events on in the connection's Events tab on the Connections page, choose the kinds you want, and Memtro registers its address with Outline for you. Each event can start a job, with the event as its input. Outline signs every delivery, and one whose signature does not check out is refused before it is read.
Events and webhooks- 01A document was created
- 02A document was published
- 03A document was edited
- 04A document was renamed
- 05A document was moved
- 06A document was archived
- 07A document was unarchived
- 08A document was unpublished
- 09A document was moved to the trash
- 10A document was restored
- 11A document was permanently deleted
- 12A comment was added
- 13A comment was edited or resolved
- 14A comment was deleted
- 15A collection was created
- 16A collection was changed
- 17A collection was deleted
- 18A person joined the workspace
- 19A person was invited
- 20A person accepted an invitation
- 21A person was suspended
- 22A person was removed
- 23A group was created
- 24A document was shared by link
In practice
Ask it like you would a colleague
Once Outline is connected, these are the kinds of things people ask. Plain questions, no syntax. If the answer lives partly in another system you have connected, Memtro looks there too.
Outline + Memtro
What does the wiki say about expense claims?
What did Priya change in the Engineering collection this week?
Which documents in Policies were updated in the last month, and by whom?
Create a page in Meeting notes titled '5 November weekly' with these notes
Move the old travel policy to the Archive collection
Updating the policy
Hannah Lee asks Memtro to change the mileage rate in the Expenses policy and leave a comment for the finance team. Memtro swaps that one passage, which everyone with access sees at once and subscribers are told about, keeps the old text in the revision history, and adds a comment that notifies collaborators.
Teams
Where it fits
The teams that lean on Outline most, a question each of them asks, and what they connect beside it.
- OperationsMonitors and digests that run themselvesOperations lead, Analyst, Team manager, Administrator“List my jobs”Used alongside Help Scout, Stripe, Xero, Postgres, ShipEngine and 8 more.
- ProductHear what customers actually ask forProduct manager, Researcher, Designer, Head of product“Which customers asked for SSO this quarter, and what is their combined ARR?”Used alongside Help Scout, HubSpot, Linear, Jira, Slack and 6 more.
- People and onboardingThe answers a new hire would otherwise ask around forNew starter, Manager, People lead, Hiring manager“How do I request a laptop, and who approves it?”Used alongside Confluence, Notion, Google Drive, Slack, Google Calendar and 5 more.
Better together
Works with
A record in Outline is rarely the whole story. Connect the systems that hold the rest and Memtro checks them together, then remembers what it learned so the next question starts further along.
- Work managementOutline with JiraJQL search, issue details and projects from Jira Cloud.
- Work managementOutline with Clio ManageAsk the matter: its client, its fee earner, the time on it and what is still unbilled.
- Work managementOutline with LinearIssues, projects and teams, synced hourly into memory.
- Email, calendar and chatOutline with GmailSearch and read mail so the last thread with a customer is one question away, and send the reply when you ask.
- Email, calendar and chatOutline with SlackSearch messages, read channel history and threads, post when you ask, and answer when mentioned.
- Email, calendar and chatOutline with Google CalendarMeetings in a window, event details, and the next two weeks synced into memory, and events it can create, change or cancel when you ask.
- Engineering and operationsOutline with GitHubIssues, pull requests, code and commits, searchable by anyone who can ask a question.
- Engineering and operationsOutline with AWS CloudWatchLogs, metrics and alarms from AWS, answered in plain English with the query that found them.
- Engineering and operationsOutline with SentryAsk what is breaking in production and get the stack trace, not a dashboard.
Also in Documents and wikis
Using something else for the same job, or both? Each connector has its own tools; connect as many as you like.
Setup
How to connect
Connect withAPI key
- 1
In Outline go to Settings → API & Apps → New API key. A key with no scopes does everything its owner can. A scoped key needs documents.*, collections.* and auth.info for reading, plus documents.*, comments.*, collections.* and stars.create write scopes for the actions
- 2
Copy the key: it is shown once, when it is created
- 3
In Memtro open Connections → Outline, paste the API key and connect. For a self-hosted Outline add the root URL of your instance
- 4
Ask what was written this week
Also works from
Chat in the dashboard, the OpenAI-compatible API, scheduled jobs, and any MCP client: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Claude Desktop. The Outline tools are the same everywhere.
FAQ
Questions
Can Memtro change anything in Outline?+
Only when you ask, and only what it has been granted: create a document in a collection; edit a document's title or text, or publish a draft; unpublish a document back to a draft; move a document to another collection or parent; copy a document; archive a document; delete a document (to the trash, or permanently when asked); restore an archived or deleted document, or an earlier revision; comment on a document or reply to a comment; resolve a comment thread; star a document for the key's owner; create a collection; rename a collection or change its description, icon or colour; delete a collection and every document in it. Every other tool reads, searches or lists. The Connections page labels the tools that act, an administrator grants each one by name to the teams that may use it, and a personal connection acts only after its owner allows it.
Who can use a Outline connection?+
A personal connection serves only your own requests. A shared connection serves the organisation: everyone, or only the teams an admin chooses. Admins can always add shared connections; other members need the permission.
Does Memtro store my Outline data?+
Credentials are encrypted at rest. Tool results are cached briefly so agent loops do not repeat identical calls, and the facts the model extracts are saved to your organisation's memory with provenance (system, record and link) so they can be checked and superseded. An hourly sync anchors recently changed Outline records into memory as entities.
How do I connect Outline?+
API key. In Outline go to Settings → API & Apps → New API key. A key with no scopes does everything its owner can. A scoped key needs documents.*, collections.* and auth.info for reading, plus documents.*, comments.*, collections.* and stars.create write scopes for the actions.
Can Outline start a job?+
Yes. Turn events on in the connection's Events tab on the Connections page, choose the kinds you want, and Memtro registers its address with Outline for you. A job set to start "When an event arrives" then runs once for each matching event, with the event as its input. The run treats the event as outside data, never as instructions, and anything the run remembers is kept as unverified.
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