iOS Shortcuts for founders

Automate your notes with iOS Shortcuts

Press, tap or ask Siri. The note is saved.

Grape adds eight actions to the Shortcuts app on iPhone and iPad. A note joins everything you promised somebody from an automation, the Action button or Siri without opening the app, and one press opens Grape on a recording, a scan or a blank page.

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1Two actions in Shortcuts

2It runs at nine every night

Journal

Long day of calls. The quiet hour at the end was the best part.

Rain all day. Read on the train instead of scrolling, which helped more than expected.

Ran before work for the first time in weeks. Booked the dentist at last.

Slow morning, good afternoon. Sam liked the new plan and wants it in writing by Friday.

Finished the slides for Monday and went for a long walk after. Call Mum about Sunday.

9:41

3The answer joins your journal

Create Note, Add to Note and Save Web Page run in the background, without opening Grape

Open Note, Write New Note, Record Voice Note, Scan Document and Start Handwriting open the app on the job

Start them from an automation, a home screen icon, the Action button, Back Tap or Siri

Comes with Pro and Lifetime, on iPhone and iPad

A note without opening the app

Create Note takes text, a title, a folder and photos, PDFs or recordings, and saves them while you stay where you are.

Add to the note you keep

Add to Note puts text or files at the end or the top of a note you pick: a journal, a log, a shopping list.

Keep a page by its address

Save Web Page files the whole article, or just the title, a summary and the link, in the folder you name.

Straight to the job

Record Voice Note, Scan Document and Start Handwriting open Grape with the recorder, the scanner or the page already up.

It runs on its own

Tie any of them to a time of day, an alarm, a Focus, a place or an NFC tag, and it happens without a tap.

Waiting in Grape

What a shortcut saves is in your library the next time you open Grape, and with sync on, on your other devices too.

The upshot

Three things you stop dropping

No feature tour. What changes when twelve conversations a day land somewhere that remembers them.

Without Grape

You promised something on a call two weeks ago and cannot recall to whom.

The investor remembers the last conversation better than you do.

The decision is written down. The reasoning was never written anywhere.

With Grape

Remember what you promised who

Ask your notes for the commitments from the last two weeks and get them with dates.

Walk into the next investor call warm

Pull up the note from the last conversation and the summary of what changed since.

Keep the thinking, not just the outcome

Record the argument, keep the transcript, and revisit why the call went the way it did.

A week

What that looks like for founders

Three points in a founder week where the app pays back its minute.

Fundraising

One note per investor, updated after every call, searchable across the whole round.

Hiring

Record interviews with permission and compare candidates from transcripts, not memory.

Weekly reset

Ask for everything you captured this week and turn it into next week.

Examples

Nine Shortcuts to Start With

Each is a few actions in the Shortcuts app, and Show me how plays every step on an iPhone. The ones that save run in the background, and what they save is in Grape the next time you open it.

Every night at 9 PM

A line in your journal every night

At nine the phone asks how the day went, and the answer goes on the end of one long Journal note, a day at a time.

Ask for Text with How was today?

Add Provided Input to Journal

Action button

Record with one press

Point the Action button at Record Voice Note and one press opens Grape on a new note with the recorder already running.

Record Voice Note

Back Tap

Keep what you copied

Copy a line in any app, double tap the back of the phone, and it joins your Quotes note. Back Tap is in Settings, under Accessibility and Touch.

Get Clipboard

Add Clipboard to Quotes

Siri

Speak a note to Siri

Name the shortcut Quick note and say it to Siri. What you say next becomes a new note in Inbox, without touching the phone.

Dictate text

Create note with Dictated Text in Inbox

Weekdays at 8 AM

The day on your calendar, ready for notes

Every working morning a note in Meetings lists the events of the day, one to a line, so the notes for each have somewhere to go.

Find Calendar Events where Start Date is today

Create note with Calendar Events in Meetings

Every day at 7 AM

Morning reading from your feeds

The newest posts from a blog you follow are saved to Reading as links with a summary. Choose Article instead to keep the whole text.

Get 5 items from the feed address

Repeat with each item in Items from RSS Feed

Save Repeat Item as Link in Reading

Alarm is stopped

Morning pages when the alarm stops

Stop the alarm and Grape is open on a blank note in Morning pages, so the first thing you do with the phone is write.

Write a new note in Morning pages

Study Focus turns on

A handwriting page for study time

Turn on a Study Focus on the iPad and Grape opens on a fresh page of ruled paper, ready for the pencil.

Start Handwriting

NFC tag

A sticker on the paper tray

Touch the phone to an NFC sticker on the in tray and the scanner opens on a new note, so receipts and letters stop piling up.

Scan Document

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.

Is this a CRM?: No. It is the notebook next to your CRM. Grape holds the conversations and the thinking, and you keep pipeline data wherever your team already tracks it.
Can I keep everything on my own machine?: Yes. The database is local by default and sync is opt in. If you want AI without a hosted provider, point Grape at a local model.
What is Grape, in one paragraph?: Grape is a note app for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android with AI built into the middle of it rather than bolted on the side. You write, record and collect things the normal way, and then you can search by meaning, ask questions about your own notes, and turn any note into a summary, a set of flashcards, a quiz or a mind map.
What makes it different from other note apps?: Most note apps treat AI as an extra panel. In Grape the agent works on your workspace: it can read, create, edit, move, tag and delete notes, and every answer points back to the note it came from. Semantic search, voice transcription, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps and the drawing canvas all live inside the editor rather than in separate tools.
Where do my notes actually live?: On your device, in a local database, and you can choose where that file sits. Nothing needs to leave your machine for the app to work. If you turn on sync with a Sync or Pro plan, your notes are also stored in the cloud so your devices can stay in step. On Lifetime they sync through your own Dropbox or Google Drive instead, and Grape never sees them.
Do I need an account to use it?: No. Download the app and start writing. You only need an account for the paid plans, which is where cross device sync and built in AI come in.

Every question

One place remembers them.

Investor calls, candidate notes, customer promises and the strategy you rewrote on Sunday, in one library you can question instead of scroll.