Claude Sonnet 4.5
Meeting Recap
Turns a recording into decisions and to-dos
Knows
MeetingsRecap template.pdf
Can
Writes notesMemory
Agents for researchers
Make your own AI agents for your notes
Make an agent for every job.
Set up an agent once for the job you do every week with a literature review: how it should write, the model it answers with, the folders and files it reads first and the tools it may use. Pick it from the title of any chat in the middle of writing up and it already knows the brief.
Instructions, a model, knowledge and tools, set once for every chat with it
One agent can answer with Claude and another with GPT, from the keys you added
Folders stay up to date, and files take PDFs, pictures and text, 20 of up to 20 MB
Each tool is a switch, and a tool that is off is never used, even when you ask
A locked note and anything in Recently Deleted never reach an agent
Synced with your settings, so the agents on the laptop are on the phone too
Brief it once
Write how it should work the way you would brief a person. It follows that in every chat you have with it.
Its own model and files
Claude for one agent and GPT for another, each with the folders, notes and PDFs it should read first.
Pick it from the title
Switch any chat to an agent from its title, on the laptop or the phone. Its face stays with its chats.
Tools are switches
Web search, writing notes, filing them, images and memory each have one. A tool that is off is never used.
A face that shows its work
It watches while you type, thinks and reads while it works, and hops when the answer is in.
On every device
Agents sync with your settings, with their faces, files and order, so the phone has the same team.
Ideas
Six Agents Worth Making First
Each one is a few lines of instructions, a model and the notes it should know. Settings has examples to start from, and every new agent comes with a face of its own.
Findings
Three problems this addresses
Stated plainly, without the usual claims. What changes when the library can answer a question.
01
You annotated the paper last year and are reading it again.
Stop rereading papers you already annotated
Ask what your notes say about a method and get the answer with the note it came from, ready to cite.
02
The interview sits as audio for a month before anyone transcribes it.
Turn interviews into text the same day
Record the session, get a transcript in the note, and code it while it is still fresh.
03
The argument is spread across a year of files that never met.
See how the threads connect
Link notes to each other and use the graph view to spot the argument forming across a year of reading.
In practice
What that looks like for researchers
Three points in a project where the tool changes the work rather than decorating it.
01
Reading a new paper
Drop the PDF into a note, write alongside it, and tag it into the theme it belongs to.
02
Fieldwork day
Record on the phone, add photos, and let it all sync back to the desk copy.
03
Writing up
Ask for every note that touches a concept, then pull the quotes into the draft.
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.
- Can I keep sensitive research data off the cloud?
- Yes. Grape is local first, so the database stays on your machine unless you turn sync on. If you need AI without sending text to a hosted provider, you can point Grape at a local model through Ollama or LM Studio.
- Does it handle citations?
- Grape is not a reference manager. It keeps your notes, PDFs and transcripts together and answers questions about them. Most researchers keep using Zotero or similar for bibliographies and use Grape for the thinking around them.
- 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.
Ask what you already read.
Papers, interviews, field notes and half formed arguments in one local library you can question in plain language, months after you filed them.