Ozgur Ozer

Building the best AI note taking app

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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?

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

i think you may be thinking ai as ai chat only but in this case it’s been used in a lot of places.

for example if you have hundreds or thousands of notes then at some point you cannot find anything you took years ago. with the help of semantic search you can just search any note with natural language even if you don’t remember the exact words.

the other good feature is transcription. sometimes you get lazy and you don’t want to type so you record your voice and with the ai transcription you can have your voice as text. this will actually be good for students. they can record their professors talk and then transcribe them so they can work on it.

also there are some other features in grape such as flashcards, quizzes, and mind maps since ai is very good at generating these from your notes. these will be great for students too.

also with the ai chat, the ai can use tools meaning it can create, read, update, delete notes and folders. so i’ve been a note taker for the last 10 years and writing everything by hand but now with the ai chat i can do like “generate a meal plan for fat burning. make it a table.” so ai creates the initial note then i edit manually because creating tables such a boring job.

so long story short ai is here to help us.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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?

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

3 months ago I launched the beta version of Grape's desktop app.

Then I started working on the mobile app.

But my main business started struggling. So for the last 2 months I stopped working on Grape and put all my focus there.

Today out of nowhere I got a notification from Stripe says I got the first ever subscriber.

MRR is $19

I couldn't get happy because I was still not in the best place mentally because of everything else going on but this gave me a little push.

Time to start building again.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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
https://t.co/guCEWAIu8o

Comment if you'd like a coupon to try the Lifetime Plan for free.

Here are some features 👇

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

@weswinder i tried it for my local mongo database but it can't show the correct collections. not sure if i did something wrong but i use the same settings in navicat premium lite and it works great there.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

@fortelabs something like this?

https://t.co/swVj3RTxbo

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

@hewad_mubariz @expo i was doing similar but mine's using bunch of packages like expo-blur, expo-linear-gradient, react-native-easing-gradient, masked-view.

https://t.co/F7HYgDaU8b

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

@digitalocean hope it gets fixed soon. it's been already 2 hours.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

Is DigitalOcean (FRA1) down for everyone else too?

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

@digitalocean ticket number: 11994203

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

@digitalocean thank you. i've already created a ticket and they're keeping me posted.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

@digitalocean what do you mean? you just emailed us.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

@wesbos @syntaxfm working on an ai note taking app. desktop app is in beta and now working on the mobile app.

https://t.co/zrk6FTuLVC

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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
https://t.co/guCEWAIu8o

Comment if you'd like a coupon to try the Lifetime Plan for free.

Here are some features 👇

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.

[Ozgur Ozer @ozgrozer]

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.