Rich block editor for designers
A block editor with Markdown and slash commands
Write anything without fighting the editor.
Everything research sessions and critiques throw at you fits in one note: headings, checklists, tables, images and PDFs, with slash commands instead of menus.
Headings, lists, checklists, quotes, tables and dividers
Pasted Markdown that arrives as formatted text, and export back out to it
Images, audio and PDFs dropped straight into the note
Slash commands, drag handles and note to note links
Read the PDF where you write about it
Page through a document and take notes on it in the same place.
Structure without the menu hunt
Slash commands drop a table, a checklist or a divider where the cursor is.
Nothing is ever really deleted
Version history keeps earlier drafts of every note you write.
Every paragraph is a block
Move a section somewhere else without selecting a single word.
Markdown in and Markdown out
Paste it and it arrives formatted, export it and it leaves the same way.
Link one note to another
Mention a note as you write and both ends of the link stay live.
01 Outcomes
Three problems, resolved
Not a feature grid. What changes when the sketch and the reasoning live in the same file.
01
The sketch is in one app and the reasoning is in another.
Draw the idea inside the note
An infinite canvas sits in the editor, so a wireframe and the thinking behind it stay together.
02
Six months on, nobody can say why the pattern was chosen.
Explain a decision six months later
Ask why a pattern was chosen and get the note where you argued it out.
03
Research sessions end as a folder of recordings nobody plays back.
Run research without a second tool
Record the session, get the transcript, and pull the quotes into the summary.
04 In use
What that looks like for designers
Three points in a project where the tool changes the work.
Kickoff
Collect the constraints, screenshots and references into one note per problem.
Exploration
Sketch on the canvas, write the tradeoffs underneath and link to related notes.
Critique
Record the feedback session so you are listening instead of typing.
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.
07 Questions
Questions Before You Install It
The rest of them live in the help center.
Keep both in the same note.
Drawing canvas, screenshots, research and the reasoning behind a decision in one place, so the rationale survives longer than the file name.