PlaceMind
Fifteen years of saved places, resurfaced when you're actually near them.
What It Does
I had this idea for a long time. I have hundreds or even thousands of saved places on Google Maps but over the years I'd forget about the place of historical significance I saved in Rome or the restaurant in Chiang Mai and had no way to remind myself. So this is simply a place where you can save things and it'll remind you when you're nearby. I added an AI discovery layer so I could search for all surviving Gutenberg bibles and add them en masse to be reminded later when I happen to be in a city that has one.
How it works
You can search with Google Places or an LLM to add places. I also added the ability to bulk import or import from Google Maps though Google makes this hard and one must export using Google's Takeout but it does work. Once places are in, that's all you need to do. You'll get notifications if you're nearby and only then.
Built with
- iOS: SwiftUI, CoreLocation with monitored regions, MapKit for the visual layer.
- Import: Google Maps KML export parsed via lxml on a small FastAPI endpoint. CSV fallback for older exports.
- AI: Claude for the place-discovery layer, called against a category vector built from your existing saves.
- Storage: Local SwiftData store, with optional encrypted sync when a paid tier ships.