Apps for project managers
Note taking apps for desktop and mobile
A real app on the desk and in your pocket.
Most project managers capture on a phone and think on a laptop. Grape is a real app on both, with the same library in each and weeklies and risk reviews landing wherever you are.
Full workspace on desktop: sidebar, editor, chat, canvas and search
Ten second capture on mobile: open, talk or type, done
Keyboard shortcuts on desktop for everything you do often
The same library on every device once sync is on
Desktop for the long work
Writing up, cleaning up and asking bigger questions of everything.
Mobile for the moment it happens
Recording, chat and search are one tap from the note list.
Local on both
Each device keeps its own copy, so a dead connection changes nothing.
Ten second capture on mobile
Open the app, talk or type, and it is already saved when you look up.
Shortcuts for what you repeat
The desktop app has a key for everything you do twice a day.
One library on both
Turn sync on and the desk and the pocket hold the same notes.
Deliverables
Three things that stop falling through the gap
Not a feature list. What changes when the meeting, the actions and the risks live in one place.
The actions get written up an hour after the meeting, from memory.
Actions written while people are still talking
Record the meeting and ask for the decisions and owners as soon as it ends.
The status update means reopening every note from the week.
Status updates from your own notes
Ask what moved this week across a project folder and get a summary you can send.
The decision is in the notes, the task in the tracker, the file in email.
Nothing falls through the gap between tools
Checklists, notes, attachments and transcripts all live in the same note.
A sprint
What that looks like for project managers
Three points in a cycle where the app closes a gap.
01
Weekly meeting
Record it, get the transcript, ask for the action list and tick items off in the note.
02
Risk review
Keep a note per risk, linked to the meetings where it moved.
03
Reporting
Ask for a status summary built from this week and export it.
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.
Do not also transcribe it.
Record the standup, get the actions out of the transcript, and keep every risk, decision and follow up in a library you can search by meaning.