Drawing canvas for journalists
Draw the part words cannot carry.
Some of a story file is not sentences. Put a story on an infinite canvas inside the note, right next to the writing that explains it.
Freehand drawing, shapes, arrows and boxes
The canvas sits in the note as a block, with text above and below it
Follows dark mode, so a canvas drawn at night still reads in the morning
Drawings sync with everything else on a Pro plan
Diagrams without a second app
Boxes and arrows are two clicks away instead of a context switch.
Sketch, then explain underneath
The caption you write is what makes the drawing findable later.
Draw with a pencil in hand
Rough it out on the phone, tidy it up at the desk.
A block, not a separate file
Text above, drawing in the middle, more text underneath.
Legible at night as well
The canvas follows dark mode, so a late sketch still reads in the morning.
Drawings travel too
The sketch is on the other device with everything else on a Pro plan.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for journalists.
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.
In practice
What that looks like for journalists
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
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.
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
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.