Grape
Web clipper for Chrome for journalists

Clip the page. Keep it as a note.

A page worth keeping goes into Grape as a note, with the images and the source line, filed next to a story file. Ask it questions later the way you would ask anything else you wrote.
1Clip it where you are reading
2It is filed before you switch windows
Article, selection or bookmark, chosen from one panel
Title, folder and tags corrected before you save
Images downloaded into the note, so the clip outlives the page
A keyboard shortcut and a right click menu for clips that never open the panel

Three ways to take a page

The readable article, only the part you highlighted, or just the title and the link.

Filed before it lands

Pick the folder and the tags in the panel, or set a default once and never see it again.

The pictures come too

Grape downloads every image into the note, so it reads offline and after the page is gone.

It says where it came from

Site, author and date on one line under the title, with the original a click away.

Two keys and it is saved

One shortcut clips the page, another clips the selection, with no panel in between.

Nothing passes through a server

The page goes from the browser to the app on your machine, and nowhere else.
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.