You remember the little café near Alamo Square before you remember which morning you stopped there. In Gemi, give that memory another entrance: add a place while you write the entry; later, find the place on the Footprint Map and open the words you left there.
A place beside the words
A location is optional. You can keep a diary entry about a café without adding a pin, and it will still be readable by date. Adding the place makes it possible to encounter the entry geographically later. This is particularly useful for a familiar neighborhood: the map may put ordinary mornings near one another even when they were months apart. Use the detail in the prose to distinguish one visit from the next.
Tap the location icon in the writing bar, choose a nearby place, or search for one. Its name appears among the items added to the entry. An ordinary morning’s writing can sit beside “Apartment near Alamo Square.” The pin is a clue back to that story, not the story itself.
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A place may belong to a meal or a neighborhood walk as easily as to a vacation. The travel journal overview brings photos and transport into the same journey; the map follows the geographical trail through your entries.
Follow a point back to a day
A city is often too broad to be a memory. The map’s levels let you move from a broad region into a smaller place, where the entries become more specific. A Golden Gate Park card in the San Francisco footprints holds several dated memories and leads to their original entries. If one park has many visits, you can read how its meaning changed without pretending they were a single trip.
From the top right of Journal, open the Footprint Map. It can move from a country or region into cities and then individual places with entries. Tap a point for the relevant entries, then open the day you want. Flights you recorded can also appear as routes in flight footprints.
If a single place appears under several names, map display can combine them. This changes the view and counts, not the original location written in each entry. A nearby old entry may also be surfaced on the writing page when there is a recorded place and location access to support it.
Only places you chose to keep
A map point can contain more than one entry. Open it and you can see the different days associated with that place, then choose the one you meant. In the demo, Golden Gate Park is a place with several memories rather than a single photograph. That makes the map useful for familiar places as well as distant travel: the repeated visit becomes visible without merging the days themselves.
A place added under slightly different names can be grouped on the map without changing the original entries.
The map works from places and journeys you add to entries; it does not track movement in the background or infer trips from photos. Check a suggested place before saving, since it may name a neighboring business. Without location permission, try manual search. An entry without a location remains available through the calendar or Memories. Connectivity and map availability can affect the view.
Updated 2026-10-11 · Screenshots use demo data