Mind maps for developers
See how one topic hangs together.
A long note about a service becomes branches you can follow, which is a different pass over the same material than reading a pile of runbooks and notes again.
A mind map generated from any note in one step
Branches follow the structure you already wrote
Zoom around the map on desktop or phone
The map stays attached to the note it came from
Structure you cannot see in prose
Long notes hide their shape. A map puts it back on the surface.
Revision that is not rereading
Walking a map is a different pass over the same material.
Built from your note, not a template
The branches come from what you wrote, in your own words.
Follow one branch at a time
Open the part you are stuck on and leave the rest folded away.
A real map on a small screen
Pan and zoom on the phone instead of squinting at a picture of it.
The map stays with the note
It sits in the note it came from, ready the next time you open it.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for developers.
Stop solving the same bug twice
Describe the symptom in search and get the note where you already worked it out.
Keep decisions where you can defend them
Ask what you decided about a service and get the note, the date and the reasoning.
Point the AI at your own stack
Bring your own key, or run a local model through Ollama, and keep the workspace on disk.
In practice
What that looks like for developers
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
Debugging
Write the symptom, the theory and the fix in one note, with the log you kept attached.
Architecture review
Record the conversation and keep the decision log next to the diagram.
New project
Keep the setup steps in a runbook that actually gets found again.
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.
AI Agent
Chat that reads your library and can act on it
Open
Memory
The agent remembers what you tell it
Open
Semantic search
Search that works on what you meant
Open
Voice and transcription
Meetings and lectures become searchable text
Open
Web clipper
Save any page from Chrome into a note
Open
Share to Grape
A page from the share sheet becomes a note
Open
Find it next time it breaks.
Runbooks, architecture decisions and the fix you worked out at midnight, in a local library you can search by meaning and keep offline.