Drawing canvas for students
Draw the part words cannot carry.
Some of a semester of notes is not sentences. Put a tricky topic 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.
Results
Three things that stop being a problem
Feature lists are easy to write and hard to care about. This is what changes for students.
Listen in the lecture instead of typing through it
Record, add three keywords, and read the full transcript later with the slides attached to the same note.
Revise from the course, not from a stranger on the internet
Flashcards and quizzes are generated from your notes, so you are drilling the version your professor actually taught.
Find the one slide you need at 11pm
Search by what you half remember. The right note comes up even when your file names are a mess.
In practice
What that looks like for students
A few moments in a normal week where the app earns its place.
Lecture at nine
Open the phone, record, and let the transcript file itself into the course folder.
Reading week
Drop the PDFs in, write next to them, and link readings to the lecture they belong with.
Two days before the exam
Ask for a summary of the unit, then quiz yourself on the parts you keep getting wrong.
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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Semantic search
Search that works on what you meant
Open
Voice and transcription
Meetings and lectures become searchable text
Open
Flashcards
Decks built from the notes you wrote
Open
Quizzes
Test yourself before it counts
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Mind maps
One note laid out as a map
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Revise from your own notes.
Hit record when the lecturer starts, get the transcript in the note, and turn the whole week into flashcards the night before the exam. No workspace to build first.