Grape
Graph view for journalists

See the whole library at once.

See every note you have written about a story and the ones you forgot were connected. Most journalists find a theme running through a story file that they never filed as one.
Every linked note plotted across the whole library
Spot clusters you never filed together
Jump straight from the graph into a note
Note stats alongside it for how your writing is spread out

Connections you did not plan

Two notes from different months turn out to be about the same thing.

Links do the work

Link note to note as you write and the map fills itself in.

Where your attention went

Note stats show what you have actually been writing about.

Jump from the map into the note

Click a dot and you are reading the thing it stands for.

Clusters your folders missed

Notes filed in three places show up as one group on the map.

The wide shot of the library

Everything you have written, on one screen, at the same time.
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.
FAQ

Questions Before You Install It

The rest of them live in the help center.

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.