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Nooks

Places worth revisiting.

Nooks is your personal place intelligence layer. Instead of digging through Google Maps saves or trying to remember "that quiet café in SoMa", you describe places as you discover them and ask your agent for recommendations based on your own experience — not the internet's.

See it in action

Saving a place

You

Save Blue Bottle in SoMa — great wifi, quiet upstairs, gets busy after 10am.

Found it — Blue Bottle Coffee, 66 Mint St, SoMa SF. Specialty coffee, $$, confirmed wifi. Good for: focus, calls. I'll add your note about the upstairs and the 10am rush. Anything else?

You

Also has charging points at the bar.

Added #charging to the features. Saved.

Getting a recommendation

You

I have a client meeting in Hong Kong tomorrow — somewhere with good coffee and quiet enough to talk.

From your saved places in HK: Amber in Lan Kwai Fong is your best bet for a client meeting — you noted it as good for calls, moderate vibe, and it has a private corner on the upper floor. Common Ground in Wan Chai is quieter but more casual. Which feel fits better?

You

Amber. Can you send me the maps link?

Here you go: maps.app.goo.gl/amber-lkf — you saved this one in January. You also noted the flat white is excellent.

Updating a place after a visit

You

Went back to Sightglass in SF today — wifi is gone now, they removed it.

Updated — removed #wifi from Sightglass SOMA and added a note: "5 Apr 2026: wifi no longer available." Good to know.

Questions & answers

How is this different from Google Maps saved places?

Google Maps gives you a public list. Nooks gives you personal signal — your notes, your verdicts, your experience. You can search by what a place is good for, not just its name or category.

Can I search across multiple cities at once?

Yes. Ask "where can I find a quiet café with wifi?" and the agent searches across all your city folders. You can also scope it: "in HK" or "in SF".

What if I don't know the place name, just an area?

That works too. "Somewhere near Central" or "around Wan Chai" — the agent filters by neighborhood tags in your saved files.

Can I set it up to auto-fetch Google Maps links?

Yes — add a free Google Places API key to your nooksconfig.yml and the agent will fetch the Maps link automatically whenever you save a new place.

What if my local list is thin for a city I'm visiting?

If the Haah skill is installed, you can dispatch to your trusted circle: "Who knows a good place to work in Bangkok?" Real people, real recommendations.

Ready to try Nooks?

Ask your coding agent: “Install Nooksfrom knowyourpeople.org”

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