Claude Sonnet 4.5
Meeting Recap
Turns a recording into decisions and to-dos
Knows
MeetingsRecap template.pdf
Can
Writes notesMemory
Agents for journalists
Make your own AI agents for your notes
Make an agent for every job.
Set up an agent once for the job you do every week with a story file: how it should write, the model it answers with, the folders and files it reads first and the tools it may use. Pick it from the title of any chat an hour before filing and it already knows the brief.
Instructions, a model, knowledge and tools, set once for every chat with it
One agent can answer with Claude and another with GPT, from the keys you added
Folders stay up to date, and files take PDFs, pictures and text, 20 of up to 20 MB
Each tool is a switch, and a tool that is off is never used, even when you ask
A locked note and anything in Recently Deleted never reach an agent
Synced with your settings, so the agents on the laptop are on the phone too
Brief it once
Write how it should work the way you would brief a person. It follows that in every chat you have with it.
Its own model and files
Claude for one agent and GPT for another, each with the folders, notes and PDFs it should read first.
Pick it from the title
Switch any chat to an agent from its title, on the laptop or the phone. Its face stays with its chats.
Tools are switches
Web search, writing notes, filing them, images and memory each have one. A tool that is off is never used.
A face that shows its work
It watches while you type, thinks and reads while it works, and hops when the answer is in.
On every device
Agents sync with your settings, with their faces, files and order, so the phone has the same team.
Ideas
Six Agents Worth Making First
Each one is a few lines of instructions, a model and the notes it should know. Settings has examples to start from, and every new agent comes with a face of its own.
The lede
Three things that stop costing you the afternoon
No feature tour. What changes between the interview and the filed copy.
Without Grape
The quote is on a recording you have not had time to transcribe.
The story you dropped in March is in a folder you no longer open.
The documents are in four apps and the copy is in a fifth.
With Grape
The quote is text before you are back at the desk
Record on the phone, get the transcript in the note, and pull the line you need straight into the draft.
Reopen a story you dropped in March
Ask your notes what you had on a subject and get the answer with the note attached.
Keep the background in the same place as the copy
Documents, PDFs, links and your own notes sit in one folder rather than four apps.
On the job
What that looks like for journalists
Three points in a story where the app saves the hour.
In the field
Record, tag the note with the story slug, and move on to the next call.
Back at the desk
Read the transcript, mark the usable quotes and draft in the same note.
Six months later
Search the archive by what happened rather than what you named the file.
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.
- How protected are my notes and sources?
- Grape keeps everything in a local database on your device unless you switch sync on. It is not a secure comms tool and it makes no legal claim about source protection, so treat it the way you would treat any notebook you carry.
- How accurate is transcription?
- Good enough to work from and to search, not good enough to publish without checking. Always listen back before you quote.
- 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.
File the story the same day.
Transcripts, background, quotes and the thread you have been pulling for months, all searchable by meaning while the deadline is still hours away.
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