Graph view for lawyers
See how all your notes connect
See the whole library at once.
See every note you have written about an issue and the ones you forgot were connected. Most lawyers find a theme running through a matter 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.
Summary
Three matters this resolves
Set out plainly, without claims the app cannot support. What changes when the file can be questioned.
1.
Finding one point means rereading the whole file.
Find the point without rereading the file
Search by the issue rather than the document name and get the note that covers it.
2.
The attendance note is written from memory, an hour after the call.
Attendance notes written from the call
Record where you are permitted to, and work from an accurate transcript instead of memory.
3.
The research is in one place, the reasoning in another, the extract in a third.
Keep research and reasoning together
PDFs, extracts and your own analysis live in the same note, in the same matter folder.
A matter
What that looks like for lawyers
Three points in a matter where the tool earns its place.
01
New matter
One folder, one chronology note, and everything else linked to it.
02
Research
Keep the PDF and your extract in the same note so the reasoning survives.
03
Before a hearing
Ask your notes for the chronology and the open points.
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.
- Is Grape suitable for privileged material?
- Grape stores notes locally by default and sync is opt in, but it is a general note app, not a legal practice system. It makes no certification claims, so check it against your firm policy and your regulator before putting client confidential material in it.
- Can I stop content going to an AI provider?
- Yes. AI features are optional. If you use them, you can bring your own key with a provider your firm approves, or run a local model through Ollama or LM Studio.
- 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.
Search it how you remember.
Attendance notes, research, correspondence summaries and the point you spotted at 6pm, in a local library that answers questions about your own file.