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Map view

See your notes where you wrote them, and jump from a note to its spot on the map.

Map View plots every note that has coordinates on an OpenStreetMap map. Reach it from Map in the desktop rail or Map View in the phone drawer.

The first time you open it, the map fits itself around all your notes. After that it stays where you left it.

What is on the map

Each note is a small card pinned at the place it was created, showing its title and a metadata line. Tap one and the note opens in the editor.

Only notes with coordinates appear. Notes created without a location fix — or before you granted location permission — simply are not there; see Context capture for why a note might have no location.

The map respects your search. Whatever you have typed in the search box, and whichever tags you have selected, filters the map the same way it filters the note list. That is a good way to ask geographic questions: filter to #field-work and see where you have actually been.

Clusters

Notes close together collapse into a cluster labelled with the first note’s title and a +n for the rest. Tapping a cluster zooms in.

When zooming further would not help — you are already zoomed right in, or every note in the cluster shares the exact same coordinates — tapping opens a Cluster Notes panel listing them instead. It has its own search field (Search cluster) for picking through a busy spot, like every note you have ever written at your desk. On desktop it opens as a panel on the left; on a phone it takes over the drawer.

Show a note on the map

Going the other way — from a note you are looking at to the place you wrote it:

  • From the note list, right-click (or long-press) a note and choose Show on Map. The item is greyed out for notes with no location.
  • From the editor, use the map icon in the toolbar, tooltip Show on map. It is only there when the note has a location.

MemNote switches to the map, zooms in on that note, and highlights it. The highlight stays until you tap elsewhere on the map or focus another note.

If your current search or tag filter would have hidden that note, MemNote clears the filters so you can actually see it, and tells you: Cleared filters to show this note on the map. A search that already includes the note is left alone.

Map data

Tiles and place names come from OpenStreetMap. The credit line — Location data © OpenStreetMap contributors — is at the bottom of Settings.