map.name

Throw anything to your address, and keep what matters

Throw from your phone’s share sheet, the web, connected AI assistants, the API or by email. Only senders you approve get through. map.name catches each throw, files it privately, and hands it back understood, and you keep what matters.

Keep map.name close.

A photo, a link, a thought. Give map.name a place on your phone, ready when something is worth keeping.

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Shortcut availability depends on your app version and phone. If an option is missing, use Share → map.name.

Press and hold the app icon.

  1. On your Home Screen, touch and hold the map.name app icon.
  2. Choose Camera for a photo, Write for a thought, Speak to dictate, or Search to find something you kept.
Illustration of the app-icon menu on iPhone and Android. Press and hold the icon on your Home Screen, outside the app.

On Android, app shortcuts need Android 7.1 or later and a supporting launcher. You can also drag a shortcut onto your Home Screen if your launcher supports it.

iPhone & iPadShare, a widget, or Control Center

Keep something from another app

  1. Open a photo, link or document and tap Share.
  2. Choose map.name in the app row. If it is hidden, swipe to More to find it.
  3. Add a note if you like, then tap Throw to map.name. It arrives privately.

For an immediate save, choose Save to map.name in the actions list below the app icons. It saves privately and closes, with no second button to tap. Use Edit Actions to add it to your favourites.

A quicker way to catch a moment

Lock Screen Control Center 9:41 Throw Throw to map.name
Illustration, not a screenshot. The widget and control open the camera; nothing is saved until you choose to throw it.

Lock Screen widget

iPhone · iOS 16 or later

  1. Touch and hold your Lock Screen, tap Customise, then choose Lock Screen.
  2. Tap the widget area below the clock, find map.name, and add Throw.
  3. Tap Done. The widget opens the camera when you need it.

Home Screen widget

iOS or iPadOS 16 or later

  1. Touch and hold an empty part of your Home Screen, then open Add Widget (under Edit on newer versions).
  2. Search for map.name, choose Throw, and add it to your Home Screen.

Control Center

iOS or iPadOS 18 or later

  1. Open Control Center, touch and hold an empty area, then tap Add a Control.
  2. Find map.name and add Throw to map.name. Tap it to open the camera.

Open map.name and sign in once before setting up your shortcuts. Your phone may ask you to unlock before opening the camera.

AndroidShare, a Home Screen widget, or a tile

Keep something from another app

  1. Open a photo, link or document and tap Share.
  2. Choose map.name. Expand the app list if you do not see it.
  3. Add a note if you like, then tap Throw privately.

You can return to your library whenever you want. Everything you throw this way starts private.

Put your favourite way within reach

Home Screen Quick Settings map.name Write Throw
Illustration, not a screenshot. The camera shortcut and Throw tile open the camera; Write opens a new note and Search opens your library search.

Home Screen widget

Android 7 or later

  1. Touch and hold an empty part of your Home Screen and choose Widgets.
  2. Find map.name, then drag its widget onto your Home Screen.
  3. Use the camera, Write, or search button to go straight to what you need.

Quick Settings tile

Android 7 or later

  1. Swipe down from the top of the screen to open Quick Settings fully, then tap Edit (often a pencil).
  2. Find Throw among the available tiles and drag it into your active tiles.
  3. Tap Throw whenever you want to open the camera.

Open map.name and sign in once before setting up your shortcuts. Names and placement vary by phone and launcher.

The throw

Throwing is the only thing you ever have to do. There are no folders to create, no tags to maintain, no filing. Everything arrives private by default, and you can throw from wherever you already are.

iPhone & iPad · share to the app
Share from any app and pick map.name in the app row. Add a note if you want one, then tap Throw to map.name to keep it privately. You can change its visibility afterwards.
iPhone & iPad · the one-tap throw
In the same share sheet, scroll the actions list below the app icons and tap Save to map.name. No sheet, no questions, it throws privately and closes. The first time, tap Edit Actions at the bottom of that list and add it to your favourites so it sits one tap away.
iPhone & iPad · inside the app
Open map.name and use the camera, write or dictate a note, or import. Everything works offline and sends when you are back.
Android · inside the app
Open map.name and use the camera, write or dictate a note, or share to map.name from any app. Everything works offline and sends when you are back.
Browser extension (Chrome, Edge, Firefox)
Right-click any page, link, image or selected text and it lands in your map.name in a second. It works on Windows and Linux too.
Mac shortcut
One global hotkey throws selected text from any app. The purest throw the desktop allows.
Import your old stuff
On the import page, drop a file anywhere or click to choose. Browser bookmarks (one click through the extension, or a bookmarks .html), Readwise, Raindrop, Pocket or Kindle exports, or any list of links. Or drop a whole Google Takeout .zip in one go. Your Google Maps saved places land as real pins on your map, your Chrome bookmarks and YouTube likes become searchable saves, and passive history is skipped. A first import ends with a Page called “A first look at what you brought in.”

The catch

Seconds later map.name tells you what it understood, where the catch was filed, the words it will remember it by, and which of your drafts is growing because of it. If it filed something wrong, correcting it takes two taps, and the correction teaches your library rather than a global machine. It asks “did I get this right?” instead of announcing a verdict.

The page

The quiet idea behind map.name is that while you throw, your future self is already writing. Every catch is a line you will not have to write from a blank page later.

Catches that belong together gather into a draft. When a draft has enough to say, map.name writes it up on its own, and you do not have to ask, your catches arranged into sections, an editor's introduction, and your own notes quoted exactly as you wrote them. Notes are never rewritten.

So the thing you do here is read. Your own life, handed back to you by something that was not there for it. If a Page is right, leave it. If it is not, cut what does not belong, pull in more from your library, ask for it again, and write your own opening and closing lines if you want the page to carry your voice.

Every Page is private until you say otherwise. Making one public is one choice, and you can take it back. Pages published without your own words say plainly that your editor drafted them; add your opening, a line in the middle and a closing and the page is signed by you. We never say a person wrote what the machine wrote.

Rewrite anything, your device first

The Mac shortcut and the browser extension can also rephrase selected text. They can summarize it, reply to it, or rewrite it in a tone. Rephrasing climbs a ladder, always in your favor.

  1. Your device. Your Mac's or browser's built-in model runs it locally. It is instant and free, and the text never leaves your machine.
  2. Your own AI. Add your own API key (any OpenAI-compatible endpoint) in the extension or shortcut settings and yours runs next. The key stays on your device and is never sent to our servers.
  3. map.name. Only as a fallback does the request reach our fast model.

Understanding your catches and writing your Pages always runs on map.name's own models, on the server. That consistency is what makes filing trustworthy and Pages readable, and its cost is why heavy use eventually sits behind the paid tier. There are no ads.

Throw from Claude, Claude Code, Codex and other AI tools that carry your key. Connect your tools, then throw to your library or someone else's. The recipient decides what to keep.