Places and the map

Your city

In You, then Settings, Your city sets your time zone, the forecast in the morning email and the weather each day keeps. Change city picks another as you type. The weather comes from Open-Meteo, which gets your city, never your notes.

Where a note was

A note can keep where it was written, as exactly as your phone or computer knows it, named by its neighbourhood: “Downtown West, Minneapolis”, say.

• Here, beside the box for a note, adds where you are now. Release Notes also offers the businesses nearby, under “Were you at”: tap one to name the note by it, or leave it at the neighbourhood. It never picks one for you.
• Where picks a city instead, as you type.
• Not there takes the place off before you save.

With Add where I am on (it is, unless you turn it off in Settings, under Where you are), each note you save on Today adds where you are. Your browser asks for your location only as you save, never as the page opens. To name the spot, it’s sent to Amazon Location, and nothing else is.

A photo knows where it was taken, too: if a note has no place of its own, its first photo’s location names it.

Changing a place later

Any note’s place can be set, changed or cleared after it’s saved, whichever way it came in. The note’s Where button offers Here, a city, or No place, which leaves it with none.

A day’s own place

On Today and on any day’s page, Where was this day? gives the whole day a city, for a trip, say. A past day’s weather follows it.

A note with no place of its own, like most email replies, shows the day’s city, or else your home city. That place isn’t on the map: only a note’s own place is.

The map

Map shows every note with a place of its own, as pins that gather into numbered groups as you zoom out. Choose a pin or a group, and its notes are listed under the map, newest first; each version number opens its day.

Narrow it down with Words, Tag and Release, and Clear filters to see everything again. A place on a note, on the web or in the morning email’s Yesterday, opens the map right on that note.