Notes, Lists & Maps

Notes are how KinLife tracks everything that isn't a calendar event: shopping and packing lists, to-dos, meeting notes, restaurants to try, places to visit. Find them under Notes, or ask the assistant to make and update them for you.

Three types of note

Note: free-form Markdown: headings, bullets, bold, italic, and links. Good for prose like meeting notes or weekend plans.
List: checkbox or bullet list. Checkboxes render as real tappable tick-boxes. Use checkboxes for actionable lists (shopping, packing) and bullets for reference lists (books, gifts).
Map: a set of pins on a Google Map, each with one-tap directions.

Creating notes

Two ways:

In the Notes view: create directly and edit with the Markdown editor.
By asking: “make a packing list for the camping trip” and the assistant builds it. It can also append items and tick things off across conversations.

The Notes view is a Google Keep–style masonry grid with full-text search and lazy loading. On mobile, the organising sidebar slides up as a bottom sheet from the filter button.

The Notes view: a masonry grid of notes and lists with a tag sidebar and full-text search.

Checkbox lists

Lists support - [ ] and - [x]Markdown, which render as tick-boxes anyone in the family can check off directly, without typing. If two people edit the same note at once, KinLife detects the clash and warns you rather than silently overwriting one person's changes.

Map notes

A map note is a curated set of locations. Each pin has Open in Google Maps and Directions links, plus a per-pin note (the dish to try, who recommended it, the hours).

Add pins manually with Google Places autocomplete in the editor.
Or just ask: “save these Tokyo restaurants to a map” and KinLife geocodes each place and pins it.

Restaurants and places you save from the Social Journal also land on city- and region-scoped maps automatically.

Linking notes to events

Any note can be attached to a calendar event, e.g. a packing list on the camping trip. The link shows up in two places: the event's detail dialog in KinLife (clickable), and the Google Calendar event description (as a deep-link), so anyone the event is shared with can open it. See Calendar.

Tags & organisation

The sidebar splits Your tags (the ones you create, sorted by count) from AI-managed tags like Meal plan, Grocery list, Restaurants, Travel Wishlist, News, and Shopping. Each tag shows a note count and is clickable to filter.

You can freely add and edit your own tags. AI-managed tags are locked, only the tool that owns them (such as the meal planner) can attach or detach them, because other features rely on those tags to find their notes.

Trash & restore

Deleting a note moves it to Trash (pinned to the sidebar footer), not gone for good. Restore it with one click. Notes are only removed permanently when you explicitly purge them.