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 finished 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.
There are three ways a drink picks one up:
- You tag it yourself on the Add Drink screen.
- You have a saved location and the automatic session triggers start the session there.
- A scanned receipt named the venue and you attached it with Find Venue.
You do not need every drink tagged. Enough to tell one place from another is plenty.
# Step 2. Open the map from the session
Finish the session, then find it on the Home screen’s last-session card or in your history, and tap Session Map.
Premium users land straight on the map. On the free tier you get an explainer card with a Get Premium button instead.
# Step 3. Read the pins
Each pin sits on a venue and carries the number of drinks you logged there. Tap one and you get the venue, its drinks and their times, as the screen says: Tap a pin for the venue, drinks and times.
Alcohol-free drinks are counted separately on the pin, so a venue where you switched to soft drinks reads differently from one where you did not.
Some pins carry a note saying Best guess, taken from a receipt or a nearby drink. That is AlcoLog being honest rather than confident: it means the place was inferred rather than recorded directly, and 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. Tag a few in your next session, or set up a saved location, and the map fills itself in from then on.
# What’s next
Saved locations and session triggers are what make the map fill in without you thinking about it, since a session that starts at a saved place tags its drinks for you.
For the pattern behind the pins, your drinking history covers the same nights as charts, and your AlcoScore turns them into a trend.