Simple daily notes for a complicated world.
A notes app for you and your AI.
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🛶 Made in Hawaii 🌺Online since 2022 🏃 Interested in athletic training plans? →
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What is Grug Notes?
(hint: Notion without the productivity theater)
A notebook that listens
Record multi-speaker meeting notes. Ramble through a long solo brainstorm. Capture a two-sentence memory before it disappears.
Everything gets organized instantly. Names, dates, and action items are pulled out automatically.
Edit by voice too — say what's wrong, Grug fixes it.
A wiki for your life
Wikipedia was a great way to organize information. Grug Notes uses the same idea, just simpler, just automatic, and just for you.
Mention someone in your notes and they get their own page. Phone numbers, emails, every conversation — all collected in one place. Dates link to your calendar. Companies get pages too.
Software that's alive
Grug can operate Grug Notes. Email Grug, message Grug on Telegram — Grug help.
Schedule Grug to check in on your goals, send you a daily brief, or remind you what's coming up. Ask Grug to read or add to your notes as needed.
Pro tip: Start with daily notes. Just dump everything there. The system figures out where it belongs. No folders, no categories, no decisions.
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. One App.
All included — chat with your notes as context, get multiple perspectives, and plan anything.
Grug Notes: All of them. $7/mo.
Grug Speed
Kimi K2.5Lightning Fast Responses
Great for general questions, daily notes, quick edits. Exceptional for creative writing.
Grug
GPT-5.2Balanced & Thoughtful
Excellent for complex tasks, planning, analysis, critiques. Exceptional for athletic training plans.
Grug Oracle
Gemini 3.1 ProDeep Insights
Excellent alternative to Grug. Great for writing, editing, and nuanced tasks.
Grug Sage
Claude Sonnet 4.6Wise & Nuanced
Exceptional for complex reasoning, nuanced writing, and thoughtful analysis.
Chat Features
Apply
Add blocks from chat directly into your notes. One click to save AI responses where they belong.
Smart Diff
See exactly what AI changed. Accept or reject individual edits with visual before/after comparison.
2nd Opinion
Get alternative perspectives from different AI models. Perfect for important decisions and creative work.
Big Brain
Complex Planning Agent
Works with any Grug model to create comprehensive plans. Big Brain takes your ideas and lays them out ready to add to your notes.
Creates detailed plans like:
- • 6-month marathon training schedule
- • 30-day meal prep with shopping lists
- • Quarterly goals with milestones
Powered by Gemini
Real use cases
Training Plans
Build personalized training schedules for running, cycling, paddling, or any sport. The Big Brain agent creates week-by-week plans that fit your life.
Read the guide →Meeting Notes
Voice record your meetings and let AI transcribe them. Get summaries, action items, and searchable transcripts automatically.
Personal CRM
Keep notes about people you meet. Grug auto-extracts names and creates backlinks so you can see all your notes about someone in one place.
Quick answers to real questions
Free trial?
30 free credits to start. Upgrade when you're ready.
Can I export my data?
Yes. Export everything to Markdown anytime. Your notes, your data. No lock-in.
Is there a mobile app?
It's a website. Add to home screen, works like an app.
What about privacy?
Your notes are yours. We don't read them, sell them, or train AI on them.
Who shouldn't use this?
If you need offline-only or E2E encryption, we're not for you. Try Obsidian.
Is this a 'second brain' app?
If that means remembering so you don't have to, Grug say yes. But call it whatever you want. Second brain, notes app, or just Grug.
Related to Grug Brain Dev?
No, but Grug big fan. Grug Brain Dev = prophet of simplicity. We agree, complexity very bad. Manufacturing teach same lesson.
Is this sustainable?
Built to be sustainable at 100 users. No VC funding, no growth-at-all-costs. We operate within Kamanu Composites which has been around since 2007. We aim to last.
For the nerds in the room
Old-school web tech meets cutting-edge AI.
Because sometimes boring is beautiful.
Built Like It's 2009 (In a Good Way)
- • Django + MySQL (battle-tested for decades)
- • Hosted on Google Cloud Run
- • Server-rendered HTML with HTMX sprinkles
- • Optimized for cold starts
- • Works on slow connections
- • Multi-page app where back button always works
AI Without the Hype
- • Do useful things is the number one goal
- • Multiple LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google)
- • Vector embeddings for semantic search
- • Groq Whisper 3 for accurate voice → text
- • Named entity recognition and attribute extraction
- • AI as assistant, not author
Philosophy: We take inspiration from Hacker News, Craigslist, and McMaster-Carr. Use proven tech, sprinkle in modern AI where it actually helps. Skip the heavy JavaScript frameworks. Build something fast, functional, and built to last.
A canoe company making software?
Grug Notes is a product from Kamanu Composites. Yes, we make canoes. We design them, build them from scratch, and sell them directly to customers. We do everything in-house to a fault — including building our own software since 2008. In 2020, we made 900,000 face shields and stayed organized with Roam Research. We learned a lot about scale, note-taking, and life.
After that, we knew what we wanted: the organization without the overhead. The linking without the learning curve. Notes that work when you're on the shop floor. So, in October 2022, we put a text box on a website, and Grug Notes was born. We march forward, always keeping simplicity at our core and our roots in manufacturing in our hearts.
Seven bucks a month.
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