Day 154 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added custom AI models. Now you can bring your own API keys to use any model from any provider. Also added personalization settings so you can define custom system prompts to adjust how AI responds. #buildinpublic #ios

Day 153 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added AI mind maps. You can now generate mind maps from your notes. It will make easier to explore ideas. You can see all the connections and understand complex topics better. #buildinpublic #ios

Day 152 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added AI quizzes. Grape can now generate quizzes from your notes with difficulty levels. It also supports adaptive mode. The quiz adjust its difficulty based on your answers. It will make it easier or harder as you go. #buildinpublic #ios

Day 151 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added AI flashcards. Grape can now turn your notes into flashcards with a single tap. I think this will be especially useful for students and anyone trying to learn and remember new things. #buildinpublic

Day 150 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added version history for notes. Every change is automatically saved to your local db so you can see the previous versions and restore them. Also it's been 5 months and I'm surprised I managed to get this far w/o getting bored. #buildinpublic

Day 149 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Implemented vector embeddings. Notes are now indexed so you can search them with natural language instead of exact keywords. Even if you don't remember a word from a note, AI can still understand what you mean and find it. #buildinpublic

Day 148 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added prompt templates. You can save your prompts and they appear in the AI chat for quick access. Tap any template and it automatically sends the saved prompt so you don't have to type the same thing every time. #buildinpublic

Day 147 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added AI transcription for voice recordings. After recording, you can generate a transcript with AI and insert it directly into your note. #buildinpublic

Day 146 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added hashtags to the mobile app. Typing # automatically creates a tag that appears on the folders page. Also added autocomplete for tags. Start typing # and existing tags are suggested as ghost text. Tap to autocomplete. #buildinpublic

Day 145 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added subfolders to the mobile app. Folders can now be nested infinitely, making it easier to organize large collections of notes. Also added support for moving folders around. #buildinpublic

Day 144 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added tool calling to the AI chat. Now AI can create, update, delete notes and folders. Basically the AI can now manage your entire workspace instead of just chatting. #buildinpublic

Day 143 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I'm continuing to improve AI chat. Added photo and file uploads so you can attach images or like PDFs and ask questions about them. Also added web search to the chat so now it's more capable. #buildinpublic

Day 142 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added AI chat to the mobile app. Right now it's just a simple chat but I'll add other things like image support, web search, and tool calling one bye one. #buildinpublic

Day 141 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I made an auto sync. Now when you create folders, edit notes etc. it auto syncs everything to the server. On the other device when you focus to desktop window or when you bring the mobile app to foreground it auto syncs too. #buildinpublic

Day 140 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Today I spent 8 hours just to implement sync logic. Currently it's being done manually but it works great. It can sync folders, notes, images, voices, pdfs, drawings. Next I'm going to work on an automatic sync system. #buildinpublic

Day 139 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Finished auth and in-app purchases. Now that the subscription logic is done I think I can start syncing notes, documents and everything. #buildinpublic

Day 138 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Started working on auth and in-app purchases. These are the most boring parts of app development. I was thinking that the AI is still not there. I mean you have to manually setup a lot of things in Google, Apple, RevenueCat etc. #buildinpublic

Day 137 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added PDF support to the editor. You can now upload PDF files directly into your notes and keep them alongside your text, images and other content. #buildinpublic

Day 136 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added internal note links. You can now link one note to another and jump between related ideas much faster. #buildinpublic

Day 135 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I've started using Fable 5 and it's unbelievable. I asked it to make me an infinite drawing canvas and 20 minutes later I got this. Zoom in and out with pinching and pan with two fingers. #buildinpublic

Day 134 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added a link feature where you can give links to the texts. Also implemented undo/redo buttons so you can take back when you make a mistake. Now I'm working on a drawing feature. Need to find a good React Native drawing library. #buildinpublic

Day 133 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Spent the whole day implementing voice recording. It ended up being a mix of Lexical, WebView, and native audio. Had a hard time with Opus 4.8 so I switched to GPT 5.5 to create a bridge between native code and WebView. #buildinpublic

Day 132 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Started working on tables. I think tables are one of the hardest components to build in a text editor. I don't see it very often in every notes app. Also migrated from Supabase to my own VPS to cut the costs for the future. #buildinpublic

Day 131 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added image support to editor. Now I can tap the image button to pick images from the gallery. Also added drag & drop support so I can press and hold an image to move it anywhere. #buildinpublic

Day 130 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I'm working on a custom toolbar that will appear above the keyboard like Apple Notes. Also made a waitlist for the mobile app. Join if you'd like to test it when the TestFlight version becomes available. #buildinpublic

Day 129 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Spent too many hours to integrate Lexical Editor and it was a really tough job to make it performant. Is this a good way to render rich text in React Native? #buildinpublic

Day 128 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Started working on the search page. When you tap search button it slides up from the bottom. I thought it would be cool. Search is also very fast since everything runs locally on your device. #buildinpublic

Day 127 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added dark mode and it actually looks really good. Also added a move button for notes so you can send them to another folder with a nice bottom sheet. #buildinpublic

Day 126 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Spent the whole day making notes open much faster. Did some caching and switched note rendering to flashlist. Now whether a folder has 30 or 3k notes it opens super fast. #buildinpublic

Day 125 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added swipe to delete feature for notes and folders. Swipe left to delete and deleted notes go to the recently deleted folder. #buildinpublic

Day 124 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I'm adding iOS style settings pages and the first item is the language settings. The good part about using Electron for desktop and React Native for mobile is that I can share lots of things such as language files and functions. #buildinpublic

Day 123 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Started working on the editor. It's just an input for now but I'll try to add Lexical. Also bought a cheap Xiaomi phone to test the app on Android. Lots of things are different there such as this cool dropdown.

Day 122 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I've implemented SQLite and from now on everything will be saved locally. I can create and sort folders and when i refresh the app the data will be still there. #buildinpublic

Day 121 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Working on little details like this gradient blur background and the moving title. I didn't know building a mobile app could be this fun. #buildinpublic

Day 120 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Yesterday I started working on the mobile app. I'm using Expo and I'm really loving it. It has almost everything you need to make a native app. #buildinpublic

Day 119 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Just started working on the mobile app. It took me 4 months to build the desktop app. Let's see how long it will take me to finish the mobile app. Join the waitlist on the website to be notified when the mobile app is released. #buildinpublic

Day 118 of building Grape, an AI note taking app A lot of Obsidian users wanted to switch to Grape but they were asking for a graph view and I made it. I think this was the last feature request so that means I can start working on mobile apps starting tomorrow. #buildinpublic

Day 117 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Added an info bar to show some stats about note. Also there's a backlinks tab where you can see what links to this note and links tab what this note links to. #buildinpublic

Day 116 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I'm working on recording system audio. This will allow recording online meetings. Also added audio device input selection so you can use your built-in microphone, AirPods or anything. #buildinpublic

Day 115 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Today I worked on Markdown formatting. Now when you copy and paste Markdown content, it automatically converts it into rich text including images, code blocks, tables, and everything else. It even works with math formulas. #buildinpublic

Day 114 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I'm working on this math formula block but not sure if this is a good way to implement it. Math guys is this good to go? #buildinpublic

Day 113 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I launched the beta 5 days ago and since then 100 people installed Grape on their computers and made 2 sales. Today I fixed bunch of bugs and added a custom provider option so you can use any OpenAI compatible endpoint now. #buildinpublic

Day 112 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Yesterday I posted a video about importing from Apple Notes to Grape got 145K views. People really loved that feature. Today I added Japanese language support as requested and this little accent color feature. #buildinpublic

Day 111 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Some people were asking for an import feauture for Apple Notes so I made it. I didn't even know Grape can handle more than 2K notes. Also added an ability to delete all local data. #buildinpublic

Day 110 of building Grape, an AI note taking app After a day I posted Grape to Reddit I made my first sale. Made an update to support Intel-based Macs too. Now trying to reverse engineer Apple Notes' local database to import all the notes to Grape. #buildinpublic

Day 109 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I posted Grape to some subreddits and 40 people installed the app so far. People asked for 2 things. Importing notes from Apple Notes and the iPhone app. Is there a way to export thousands of Apple Notes programmatically? #buildinpublic

Day 108 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Submitted Grape to some subreddits to get some feedback. Also made this intro video so I'm using it on Reddit posts. #buildinpublic

Day 107 of building Grape, an AI note taking app Beta is live 🎉 You can download the app here: grape.cool No account needed. Basic note taking is free. I’m giving away the $29 Lifetime plan for free during beta. Comment if you’d like a coupon so I’ll DM you. #buildinpublic

I use Apple Notes a lot but it has almost no AI features. So I built Grape, a note taking app that looks familiar but has AI built in. Beta is now live grape.cool Comment if you'd like a coupon to try the Lifetime Plan for free. Here are some features 👇 #buildinpublic

Day 106 of building Grape, an AI note taking app I made the final updates before the beta launch. Worked on the landing page, updated pricing and faqs. Everything is ready. Hopefully launching the beta tomorrow. #buildinpublic