Apps for consultants
Note taking apps for desktop and mobile
A real app on the desk and in your pocket.
Most consultants capture on a phone and think on a laptop. Grape is a real app on both, with the same library in each and stakeholder interviews landing wherever you are.
Full workspace on desktop: sidebar, editor, chat, canvas and search
Ten second capture on mobile: open, talk or type, done
Keyboard shortcuts on desktop for everything you do often
The same library on every device once sync is on
Desktop for the long work
Writing up, cleaning up and asking bigger questions of everything.
Mobile for the moment it happens
Recording, chat and search are one tap from the note list.
Local on both
Each device keeps its own copy, so a dead connection changes nothing.
Ten second capture on mobile
Open the app, talk or type, and it is already saved when you look up.
Shortcuts for what you repeat
The desktop app has a key for everything you do twice a day.
One library on both
Turn sync on and the desk and the pocket hold the same notes.
Executive summary
Three things that stop being billable friction
Not a capability list. What changes when interviews become findings the same day.
01
Interview week ends with ten recordings and no findings.
Interviews become findings the same day
Record, transcribe, then ask what came up across the whole engagement folder.
02
Switching clients means fifteen minutes of reading before you can think.
Switch clients without losing the thread
One folder per engagement and search that works across all of them when you need a precedent.
03
You solved a version of this two years ago and cannot find the deck.
Reuse what you learned last time
Ask your archive how you handled a similar problem two years ago.
An engagement
What that looks like for consultants
Three points in a project where the tool changes the work.
01
Discovery week
Record every interview into the client folder and let search find the patterns.
02
Synthesis
Ask for the themes, check the quotes, and draft the findings in the same note.
03
Between engagements
Search old work for the framework you built and adapt it.
The rest of the app
What Else Grape Does
Every part of the app is built around the same idea: keep what you write, and hand it back when you need it.
Questions
Questions Before You Install It
The rest of them live in the help center.
Not for rewriting your notes.
Client interviews, site visits, findings and drafts in one library, so the deliverable comes out of the work you already did instead of a blank page.