Stack · Personal productivity

Personal desk

One place for the notes, the tasks, the calendar and the inbox, with a memory that survives the session.

Built for: Anyone whose system is four apps and the belief that they will remember which one has the thing.

Install all 13 parts

The button opens the checkout, where 8 servers and 5 skills are listed one by one with what each does to the bill — free, already yours, monthly or a one-off licence. Nothing is charged until you confirm it there, in Stripe’s own card frame on that page rather than a redirect, and each paid member keeps its own budget cap.

$15/mo
8 servers at their publishers’ prices, with one-off licences spread over 12 months
$0
the free-tier version keeps 7 servers and 2 skills
$0
5 skills with no monthly cost, plus $153 paid once
73.7k
tokens of context the skills add to every session
01 · Outcome

What your agent can do with this

The reason to buy a stack rather than five listings: each line below needs more than one member connected at the same time.

  1. 01

    Capture into Notion or Obsidian, and turn the capture into a Todoist task with a date rather than a note about a task.

  2. 02

    Read the calendar and the inbox together, so the plan for tomorrow accounts for what is already in it.

  3. 03

    Keep persistent memory across sessions, so the assistant knows the project without being told again each morning.

  4. 04

    File what arrives — documents, notes, exports — into a structure that stays legible a year later.

02 · Assembly

The assembly, part by part

What each part contributes, and why it was picked over the obvious alternative. Prices and permissions are read from the listings, so nothing here can disagree with the catalogue.

8 servers5 skills
NO01

The workspace most of this already lives in, connected properly instead of through copy and paste.

read/write split not recordedruns on your machine A v2.0.2 credential not declared · runs locally
Free
$0 of the monthly total
OB02

The local-markdown alternative, for people whose notes should outlive any company's servers.

read/write split not recordedruns on your machine A v0.3.30 credential not declared · runs locally
Free
$0 of the monthly total
TO03

Doist's own server for the task list, so a capture becomes something with a date rather than a paragraph you will find later.

read/write split not recordedruns on your machine A v13.0.0 credential not declared · runs locally
Free
$0 of the monthly total
ME04

Persistent entities and relations across sessions — the difference between an assistant and a fresh conversation every morning.

read/write split not recordedruns on your machine A v2026.7.4 credential not declared · runs locally
Free
$0 of the monthly total
GO05

The commitments that already exist, which is what makes a plan for tomorrow honest.

read/write split not recordedruns on your machine A v2.6.2 credential not declared · runs locally
Free
$0 of the monthly total
GM06
Gmail MCP server Email by klodr

Scope-gated inbox access with attachment path jails, which is the version of this worth granting to a personal assistant.

read/write split not recordedruns on your machine A v1.3.3 credential not declared · runs locally
from $15/mo
$15 of the monthly total
WE07

Seventeen weather tools with no API key, for the plans that are actually decided by whether it rains.

read/write split not recordedruns on your machine A v1.24.0 credential not declared · runs locally
Free
$0 of the monthly total
and the instructions that drive them A skill is a prompt file, not a server: it adds context and a procedure, never a tool or a permission of its own.
SE09
Second Brain Agent skill Workflow by sean-esk

The method behind the tools — capture, organise, review — combining GTD, Zettelkasten and PARA rather than inventing a fourth system.

31.3k tokens of context never asks for a write 23 files · licence not declared needs no server of its own
Free
no monthly cost
AG10
Agent Memory Agent skill Expertise by TerminalSkills

Sets up memory that survives between sessions deliberately, instead of a context window that grows until it is trimmed.

4.8k tokens of context never asks for a write 2 files · Apache-2.0 v1.0.0 needs no server of its own
$59
$4.92 of the monthly total
FI11
File Organizer (PARA) Agent skill Workflow by smithjoshua

Files what lands on your disk into Projects, Areas, Resources and Archive, which is the part everyone skips and then regrets.

5.5k tokens of context never asks for a write 4 files · MIT needs no server of its own
$35
$2.92 of the monthly total
AG12
agent-email-inbox Agent skill Guardrail by resend

For turning mail into actions — the pattern behind an inbox that triages itself rather than one that is read twice.

10.3k tokens of context never asks for a write 4 files · MIT v3.0.4 needs no server of its own
$59
$4.92 of the monthly total
DE13
Deep Research Agent skill Workflow by lingzhi227

Six-phase deep reading for the personal question that deserves more than a search: a structured note set and a synthesis at the end.

21.9k tokens of context never asks for a write 11 files · licence not declared needs no server of its own
Free
no monthly cost
03 · Cost

What it costs, and on what assumption

Every member is a subscription or a licence bought once, so the monthly figure is a price rather than an estimate: what moves it is adding or dropping a member, not how hard the stack is worked. The one assumption is that a one-off licence is spread over a year so it can sit in the same column as a subscription.

PartWhat you are paying forMonthly, as quoted
Notion Free
Obsidian Free
Todoist (official) Free
Memory (official) Free
Google Calendar Free
Gmail from $15/mo $15/mo
Weather Free
Google Maps (official) Free
Skills
Second Brain Free · context cost only
Agent Memory $59 · $4.92/mo over 12 months $4.92/mo
File Organizer (PARA) $35 · $2.92/mo over 12 months $2.92/mo
agent-email-inbox $59 · $4.92/mo over 12 months $4.92/mo
Deep Research Free · context cost only
Everything above $15 of servers plus $13 of skills, the same in a quiet month and a busy one $28/mo

Subscriptions at their monthly plan price; one-off licences spread over 12 months. One-off purchases in this stack total $153 — Agent Memory $59, File Organizer (PARA) $35, agent-email-inbox $59 — paid once and spread here so they sit in the same column as a subscription. Everything arrives on one mcprush invoice, taken by Stripe from the card on your account, not one per publisher — mcprush.com is the merchant of record and each publisher is paid out of it.

The free-tier version$0/mo

Install only these and the bill is nothing: 7 servers and 2 skills.

Left out, and what goes with it:

  • Gmail · from $15/moScope-gated inbox access with attachment path jails, which is the version of this worth granting to a personal assistant.
  • Agent Memory · $59Sets up memory that survives between sessions deliberately, instead of a context window that grows until it is trimmed.
  • File Organizer (PARA) · $35Files what lands on your disk into Projects, Areas, Resources and Archive, which is the part everyone skips and then regrets.
  • agent-email-inbox · $59For turning mail into actions — the pattern behind an inbox that triages itself rather than one that is read twice.
What moves the bill
Flat every month$15 · 1 subscription
Carries a call allowance1 member
Paid once$153
Traffic assumed5k calls / month

Gmail at from $15/mo. Each of those plans states the calls it includes in a month, and running past one never arrives as a larger invoice: the gateway refuses the call over the allowance and returns an MCP error naming the plan. The figure above is what the stack costs in a busy month as well as a quiet one — what a heavy month changes is which plan you need, not what this one bills.

Budget caps are set per install and enforced at the gateway, so a retry loop is refused at the cap rather than left to run through an allowance overnight.

04 · Setup

Setting it up, in order

One step per part, in the order they are useful: connect what the work reads before what it writes, and install the skills that decide how the work is done last. Each step is a command you can read before you run it.

1
One capture destination
Notion and Obsidian both do this. Two capture inboxes is the exact problem this desk exists to solve, so pick one and connect the other read-only or not at all.
2
Mail read and draft first
The Gmail member is scope-gated. Live with read and draft for a week before granting send; most of the value is there anyway.
3
Decide what memory keeps
The memory server persists what you tell it. Agree what belongs — projects and preferences, not everything said in passing.
4
Local files stay local
The PARA skill organises what is on your own disk. Nothing here uploads it, and no member of this stack should be given a path outside the folders you named.
One command13 parts
npx mcprush@latest stack add second-brain

Nothing in this stack installs from one command today: 13 members are either paid, run from its own source, or a skill with its own command — the steps above name each one. Nothing is connected until you approve it.

Before you start
  • 8 members have not declared what credential they need — check each one’s own page before you start.
  • What this stack can write is not recorded — 8 members of 8 have no imported tool surface. Section 05 says what is known before you approve anything.
  • 8 members can run on your own machine instead of ours, if you would rather they did.
05 · Permissions

What the whole stack can reach

Installed together, these tool surfaces add up. It is the first thing a security reviewer asks for, so what has been counted — and what nobody has counted yet — is on the page rather than in a PDF.

tools that only read
Which tools read and which write is counted from the surface a publisher imports, and 8 members of 8 have no imported tool surface.
tools that can change something
Not recorded, and not estimated: a total added up from the members that have a surface would be read as the whole stack’s. The table below is what is known, member by member.
0
tools that reach the network
Not recorded: no member of this stack has published a tool surface, so where the calls go is each member’s own page to answer.
Who grants the write accessnot recorded
MemberTool surfaceWrite tools
Gmail not imported not recorded
Google Calendar not imported not recorded
Google Maps (official) not imported not recorded
Memory (official) not imported not recorded
Notion not imported not recorded
Obsidian not imported not recorded
Todoist (official) not imported not recorded
Weather not imported not recorded
Reading the number

A stack's blast radius is the union of its members, not the worst of them. That union cannot be taken here, because 8 members of 8 have no imported tool surface — so the figure a review asks for is missing rather than low, and a member marked not imported is one nobody has counted rather than one that cannot write.

Tools in total0
Write sharenot recorded
Members that can writenot recorded
Surface imported0 of 8 members
06 · Swaps

Sensible swaps

A stack is a default, not a verdict. These are the substitutions the maintainer would make, and what each one costs or saves.

The same read-and-draft loop for a Microsoft household, with the calendar arriving from the same account instead of a second one.

saves about $15/mo the same 0 tools both grade A

For people who think in boards rather than in lists; the capture step is identical and the review step looks completely different.

same money at 5k calls the same 0 tools both grade A
07 · Limits

Where this stack stops

Written by the maintainer, kept on the page rather than in a support thread.

  • It cannot send email for you unless you allow it to. Read and draft is the default here, and it should stay the default.

  • It does not replace judgement about priority. It can order a list; deciding what actually matters this week is not a tool's job.

  • Everything here is personal data by definition. Every credential should be your own, scoped narrowly, and revocable in one place.

08 · Maintenance

Who keeps this current

A stack has an owner: whoever keeps it re-checks the combination when a member changes, and the members themselves are published by the people named on each row.

Maintainer
mcprush
Publishes this stack only
Version
null
Set by the curator
Member installs
none yet
Added up across the parts. Nothing counts installs of the set as one thing.
Member rating
No reviews yet
None of the parts has been reviewed, and neither has the stack.
Composition
8 + 5
8 servers, 5 skills
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