Right-click the map - or long-press it on a phone. No mode to arm, no button to find first. The ＋ button does the same thing in two taps if you prefer it: tap ＋, then tap the spot.

A plain left click deliberately does nothing. It’s also the gesture that dismisses things, so if it placed pins, every stray tap would open a “New place” sheet.

Its own colour if you picked one; otherwise its primary tag’s colour; otherwise its status. The primary tag is simply the first one - tap any tag in the editor to promote it.

Tag and status colours live under ⋯ → Settings → Tag colours.

Yes - right-click (or long-press) a tag chip and you get that tag’s own sheet, with its colour and a rename that updates every pin carrying it. Renaming onto a tag that already exists merges the two rather than making a duplicate.

They have a season - a festival, a trip, anything with dates - and it isn’t on right now. Dimmed places are never hidden ones: hiding somewhere you deliberately saved is how you forget it exists.

A dimmed pin brightens steadily as its season approaches, and drops straight back to dim the day after it ends. How early the brightening starts is yours to set under ⋯ → Settings → Season lead-up.

Yes - that’s the calendar tab beside the search box. It swaps the box for a scrubber; drag it and the map shows you that date, with seasons coming and going as you move. Stops sit two weeks apart for a year ahead.

Dragging back to the left, or leaving the tab, returns you to today. The scrubber stays on screen the whole time it’s active, so the map is never quietly showing you a day that isn’t today.

3 in the view you’re looking at, 12 in total. The first number follows the map the way the list below does; the second is what you’d get if you zoomed out to the whole world.

Because each count answers “what would I get if I tapped this chip?”, not “what’s on screen right now”. It’s a prediction, so it ignores whichever tag you currently have selected.

Counting with your current tag applied would be much less useful: every other chip would read 0 unless a pin happened to carry both tags at once, so the whole row would go blank the moment you picked anything. Your text filter is included, though - that stays in force when you switch tags, so the counts stay honest about it.

Nothing with that tag is in the current view. It stays tappable on purpose - tap it and the list tells you how many are elsewhere, which is a real answer. Chips appearing and disappearing as you pan would be worse than a zero.

The status row above the tag chips: light up Want to go and Planned and you’re looking at everywhere you haven’t been yet.

They’re multi-select, unlike tags, precisely so you can express that. With nothing lit there’s no status filter at all, which is why the row starts out of the way.

The text box searches what you wrote - names, notes, tags, and the place a pin sits in. Status isn’t part of that on purpose: every “Want to go” pin would then contain the words “want”, “to” and “go”, and short searches would start matching hundreds of places for no reason.

The status chips are the way in, and they combine with everything else - a tag, a text search, and a status all narrow together.

Globe works out where each pin is - city, state, country - and matches that along with the name, note, and tags. So “michigan” finds your Michigan places even though the word appears nowhere on them.

Places you pin from a search know this immediately. Everything else is looked up once, about one pin a second, the first time you’re online after saving it. That’s a one-time wait per pin, never a repeated one.

Filtering tolerates typos, and how forgiving it is is adjustable under ⋯ → Settings → Filter sensitivity - 100% means exact matches only, lower is fuzzier. Note the list only shows places in the current view; if there are matches outside it, the list says how many and you can zoom out.

Usually it is there - under a name you can’t type. Globe searches OpenStreetMap, where a place outside the Latin-script world is often recorded only in the local language, with no English name attached. An English search then has nothing to match, even though the place sits in the data with a name and a location.

A coordinate needs no alphabet, so go at it from the map instead: long-press (right-click on a computer) the spot and What’s here? lists anything mapped within about a kilometre, whatever language it’s recorded in. Pick one to pin it, or use the last row to pin the exact spot and call it whatever you’ll recognise later.

Yes - paste the pair into the search box and Globe offers to go straight there: 64.8888393, -128.33038282. Latitude first, which is the order every map app copies them in. Degrees, minutes and seconds work too (48°51′29.6″N 2°17′40.2″E), and so do N/S/E/W letters in place of minus signs.

This is the one search that never leaves your device: there is nothing to look up, so nothing is sent anywhere. It’s also the way in when a place has no name you can type - anything that can hand you two numbers, a message, a sign, another map, can hand that place to Globe, whatever language it’s written in.

OpenStreetMap is built by volunteers, so how much detail exists depends on who has mapped that area - dense in some places, nearly empty in others. Nothing is wrong when a place isn’t there; it just hasn’t been added yet.

It doesn’t have to hold you up. Long-press the spot and take the last row, Pin this spot - your pin is yours, and it never depended on the place existing in anyone else’s data.

If you’d like the next person to find it too, you can add it to OpenStreetMap yourself at openstreetmap.org. One thing to know before you do: only add what you know first-hand or have stood at with GPS. Copying details across from Google Maps or another commercial map isn’t permitted there, and those edits get removed when they’re spotted.

On this device, in this browser. They work with no signal and no account, and that’s the free heart of Globe rather than a trial of anything.

Because they live here, backing them up is worth doing: ⋯ → Backups exports a file you own, and can keep it updated automatically.

They’re saved on your device immediately and queued for the server, then sent the next time you’re connected. Nothing waits on a network round trip, and nothing is dropped silently - if a change can’t be kept, Globe says so.

They’re shrunk on the way in, deliberately. A photo here is a memory jogger - “oh, that place” - not an album, and full-size images would fill your device’s storage and slow every list you scroll.

Any time, and without asking anyone: ⋯ → Backups → Export writes a GeoJSON file - the same format QGIS, Leaflet and Google Maps read. Auto-backup keeps that file up to date as you go.

It’s worth doing. Places kept only in a browser can go with the browser.

Anyone holding it - that’s what makes it work without accounts, and what to bear in mind before posting one publicly. It’s read-only: nobody can edit your map through it, and it shows only what you chose to include.

You can revoke a link at any time from the share sheet, and it stops working immediately.

An account is what lets a second device exist. Your places live on whichever device you saved them on; carrying a change to your other devices, and keeping a share link answering, are jobs only a server can do - that’s the part Premium covers.

Everything that happens on this device - adding, editing, filtering, exporting - keeps working without one, for good.

It means Premium is on. It’s there so you can tell at a glance - and, more to the point, so you notice when it stops being there: a subscription can end without you doing anything, if a card expires. When it goes, syncing stops and your edits start waiting on this device rather than travelling to your others.

Nothing is lost when that happens. The held changes go up on their own once Premium is back.

No. With an encrypted account they’re sealed on your device before they’re sent, so the server holds ciphertext it has no key for. We can see your email address and roughly how many pins you have; we cannot see where they are or what you wrote.

The flip side is real: if you forget your passphrase, there is nothing anyone here can reset. Another signed-in device or your recovery kit is the only way back in - which is why Globe pushes the kit at you when you sign up.

Map tiles come from OpenStreetMap, so they see the areas you look at. Searching for a new place, and working out which city a pin sits in, go through Globe’s own server to a geocoder - the coordinates and the words you type, never your names, notes or photos.

That’s the complete list.