A list of drinks tells you what you had. It does not tell you that three of them happened after you moved to the second pub.
The Session Map lays a night out geographically, one pin per venue, so you can see where it went rather than only when. It is a Premium feature.
Where you drink often predicts how much you drink better than when you drink. The map is the quickest way to notice that about yourself.
# Step 1. Make sure drinks are carrying a place
The map is built from drinks that have a location attached, so there has to be something to plot. Tagging drinks with a place is part of Premium.
There are three ways a drink picks one up:
- Automatically when you log it. With Tag drinks with location on in Settings > Locations Manager and location access allowed, each drink is tagged with where you are. If you are inside one of your saved locations, it takes that name.
- By hand on Add Drink. Under When & where?, tap Set Location (or Change if one was detected) and pick the place.
- From a receipt. When you scan a receipt for a past session, tap Pin this venue on the map so the venue has a position. A venue name without a pin is saved but cannot be shown on the map.
You do not need every drink tagged. Enough to tell one place from another is plenty.
# Step 2. Open the map
Look for the small Session Map link. You will find it:
- on the Home screen, beside the heading of the session timeline card (LAST SESSION once a session is over),
- on the History tab, beside each session’s date,
- on the AlcoScore screen, on the last session’s timeline card.
The link is dimmed when the session has no tagged drinks, but it still opens and tells you why.
Premium users land straight on the map. On the free tier the map sits dimmed behind a See where your night took you card with a Get Premium button.
# Step 3. Read the pins
Each pin sits on a venue. It shows the icon of the drink type you had most there and the number of alcoholic drinks you logged there. Tap one, as the hint at the bottom says (Tap a pin for the venue, drinks and times), and a card opens with the venue’s name, the time from your first to your last drink there, and a count for each drink type.
Alcohol-free drinks and water are counted separately on that card, so a venue where you switched to soft drinks reads differently from one where you did not.
A hollow pin with a dashed outline means the venue’s name was reused rather than recorded, and its card says Venue name carried over from an earlier drink nearby. The position is measured; only the name came from an earlier drink close by. That is AlcoLog being honest rather than confident, so it is worth a glance before you draw conclusions from it.
# If the map is empty
A session with nothing tagged shows No drinks with location tagged during this session.
That is not a fault. It means the drinks in that session never picked up a place, so there is nothing to plot. Switch on Tag drinks with location in Settings > Locations Manager, and the map fills itself in from your next session.
# What’s next
Saved locations and session triggers give your regular places a proper name on the map and can start and end sessions for you when you arrive and leave.
For the pattern behind the pins, your drinking history covers the same nights as charts, and your AlcoScore turns them into a trend.