ChatGPT's Mac app is getting a big usability boost. It will now work directly with coding and note-taking apps, including Apple Notes, Notion, and others.

Previously, the ChatGPT Mac app could only see, read, and improve code in XCode, Terminal, and selected other apps.

As part of its 12 Days of OpenAI announcement, the ChatGPT team announced expanded support for third-party apps, enabling it to read content from apps like Notion, Quip, and TextMate. This allows you to use ChatGPT to improve your rough draft, ask for suggestions to improve or debug your code, and more. Even better, the ChatGPT Mac app can read content from multiple apps simultaneously.

You can check out a demo of the feature in action in ChatGPT's announcement video:

The new IDEs and Jetbrains IDEs supported by the ChatGPT Mac app include BBEdit, MatLab, Script Editor, Android Studio, AppCode, IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, TextMate, and more. For note-taking, you can enjoy ChatGPT integration in Apple Notes, Notion, and Quip.

You'll have to manually provide ChatGPT access to the app data for privacy reasons. It can then provide contextual suggestions based on the additional data.

OpenAI released the free ChatGPT Mac app in June this year.

Alongside better third-party app integration, ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode will now work with third-party apps. You can use ChatGPT to dictate notes or ask it to summarize a long document in Notion, all with your voice.

These new ChatGPT features are currently exclusively available to Mac users on the Plus, Pro, Team, Enterprise, and Edu plans. OpenAI plans to expand the feature to Windows and bring it to users on the free tier next year.