Mind maps for lawyers
See how one topic hangs together.
A long note about an issue becomes branches you can follow, which is a different pass over the same material than reading a matter file again.
A mind map generated from any note in one step
Branches follow the structure you already wrote
Zoom around the map on desktop or phone
The map stays attached to the note it came from
Structure you cannot see in prose
Long notes hide their shape. A map puts it back on the surface.
Revision that is not rereading
Walking a map is a different pass over the same material.
Built from your note, not a template
The branches come from what you wrote, in your own words.
Follow one branch at a time
Open the part you are stuck on and leave the rest folded away.
A real map on a small screen
Pan and zoom on the phone instead of squinting at a picture of it.
The map stays with the note
It sits in the note it came from, ready the next time you open it.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for lawyers.
Find the point without rereading the file
Search by the issue rather than the document name and get the note that covers it.
Attendance notes written from the call
Record where you are permitted to, and work from an accurate transcript instead of memory.
Keep research and reasoning together
PDFs, extracts and your own analysis live in the same note, in the same matter folder.
In practice
What that looks like for lawyers
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
New matter
One folder, one chronology note, and everything else linked to it.
Research
Keep the PDF and your extract in the same note so the reasoning survives.
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.
AI Agent
Chat that reads your library and can act on it
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Memory
The agent remembers what you tell it
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Semantic search
Search that works on what you meant
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Voice and transcription
Meetings and lectures become searchable text
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Web clipper
Save any page from Chrome into a note
Open
Share to Grape
A page from the share sheet becomes a note
Open
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.