Grape
Web clipper for Chrome for designers

Clip the page. Keep it as a note.

A page worth keeping goes into Grape as a note, with the images and the source line, filed next to a project folder. Ask it questions later the way you would ask anything else you wrote.
1Clip it where you are reading
2It is filed before you switch windows
Article, selection or bookmark, chosen from one panel
Title, folder and tags corrected before you save
Images downloaded into the note, so the clip outlives the page
A keyboard shortcut and a right click menu for clips that never open the panel

Three ways to take a page

The readable article, only the part you highlighted, or just the title and the link.

Filed before it lands

Pick the folder and the tags in the panel, or set a default once and never see it again.

The pictures come too

Grape downloads every image into the note, so it reads offline and after the page is gone.

It says where it came from

Site, author and date on one line under the title, with the original a click away.

Two keys and it is saved

One shortcut clips the page, another clips the selection, with no panel in between.

Nothing passes through a server

The page goes from the browser to the app on your machine, and nowhere else.
Results

Three things that stop being a problem

Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for designers.

Draw the idea inside the note

An infinite canvas sits in the editor, so a wireframe and the thinking behind it stay together.

Explain a decision six months later

Ask why a pattern was chosen and get the note where you argued it out.

Run research without a second tool

Record the session, get the transcript, and pull the quotes into the summary.
In practice

What that looks like for designers

A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.

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.
FAQ

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.