Adaptive quizzes for researchers
Turn your notes into a quiz
Find the gaps before somebody else does.
A quiz written from a literature review shows the difference between having read something and knowing it. Useful in the middle of writing up, and more useful the week before that.
Questions generated from the note in front of you
The difficulty follows how you are actually doing
See which topics you keep getting wrong
Or write and edit the questions yourself, on any plan
Works on the phone, so waiting anywhere becomes practice
Reading is not knowing
A quiz shows you the difference in about two minutes.
Targets the weak spots
Answers you miss come back around, the ones you know do not.
One note, one quiz
No question bank to build and no separate app to keep in sync.
Ten questions, not a hundred
Short enough to run before a lecture, long enough to tell you something.
Practice in a queue
The quiz is on your phone, so five spare minutes becomes revision.
Straight back to the note
Every question points at the line it came from, so you can go and reread it.
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.
At a glance
From Notes to a Quiz
What goes in
One note, and the level you want: easy, normal or difficult, or adaptive to let the quiz pick as you answer.
What comes out
Ten multiple choice questions with four answers each, written from the note. In adaptive mode a wrong answer steps the next question down a level and two right in a row step it up.
Which plan
Pro, with Grape AI built in, or Lifetime with your own AI key. On Free and Sync you write the questions yourself, and every plan can edit a quiz by hand.
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.