Drawing canvas for project managers
Draw on an infinite canvas inside your notes
Draw the part words cannot carry.
Some of a project file is not sentences. Put a workstream on an infinite canvas inside the note, right next to the writing that explains it.
Freehand drawing, shapes, arrows and boxes
The canvas sits in the note as a block, with text above and below it
Follows dark mode, so a canvas drawn at night still reads in the morning
Drawings sync with everything else on a Pro plan
Diagrams without a second app
Boxes and arrows are two clicks away instead of a context switch.
Sketch, then explain underneath
The caption you write is what makes the drawing findable later.
Draw with a pencil in hand
Rough it out on the phone, tidy it up at the desk.
A block, not a separate file
Text above, drawing in the middle, more text underneath.
Legible at night as well
The canvas follows dark mode, so a late sketch still reads in the morning.
Drawings travel too
The sketch is on the other device with everything else on a Pro plan.
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.