Handwriting notes for freelancers
Write it by hand. Ask it like text.
Write kickoff calls and briefs by hand on pages of ruled paper and Grape reads the words off the page on the device itself, so a page of four client folders in your own hand turns up in search like any typed note and the agent can quote it.
Lined, grid, dotted, graph or plain pages, A4 or Letter, up to a hundred of them
Handwriting read into text on the device, so pages are searchable and the agent can read them
Import a PDF to write over it, export the notebook as one
The same pages open on the desk, where you can keep writing on them
Paper that behaves like paper
Pen, highlighter, eraser, shapes and text boxes on pages that stack the way a notebook does.
Your handwriting, searchable
The words are read off the page on the device itself, and nothing leaves it to do so.
The agent reads your pages
Ask what the lecture said on Tuesday and the answer comes from the ink.
Write on the slides
Import a PDF and annotate it page by page, then export the lot back out as one.
Page forty is a tap away
A navigator shows the whole notebook as thumbnails, with a page added or removed from there.
Open the notebook at the desk
The pages sync like any note and open in the desktop app, where you can add to them.
the gist
Three things that stop costing you unpaid hours
Not a feature tour. What changes when four clients live in one head that is not yours.
Every client switch costs twenty minutes of remembering where things stood.
Switch clients without losing context
Ask what happened last with a client and start the call already caught up.
The kickoff call was clear and the brief written afterwards is not.
Turn the kickoff call into the brief
Record it, get the transcript, and ask for the scope and deliverables in writing.
The invoice dates and follow ups are in a place you never open.
Keep the admin somewhere you will look
Checklists, dates and follow ups in the same note as the work itself.
a working month
What that looks like for freelancers
Three moments where the app gives you an hour back.
New enquiry
Record the call, get the scope out of the transcript, and quote from that.
Delivery
One folder per client with the brief, the work notes and the checklist.
End of month
Ask what you delivered and what is still unpaid.
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 become text, with who said what
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
Keep one clear head.
Briefs, calls, invoices to chase and the idea you had for a fifth project, in one library that costs nothing to start and works without a connection.