Ask for your places like you'd ask a friend

Find something you already saved

• What did I save in Tokyo?
• Find my coffee places.
• Did I ever save somewhere for dumplings?

Everything you've kept — places, dishes, little walks, notes to yourself — searched at once. This is your own collection, not the internet.

Turn a video or article into places

• What places are in this video?
• Pull the restaurants out of this article and keep the ones in Shibuya.
• Save everything from this reel to a new list.

Paste any YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or article link. It watches or reads it and hands back what was mentioned. Nothing is saved until you say so.

Build a list out of names

• Make me a list of these five cafés in Kyoto.
• Add Kissa Master and Nishiki Market to my Kyoto list.
• Start a list called Lisbon, spring.

Read names off a screenshot, a message from a friend, or the top of your head. Each becomes the actual place — the right branch, on the map, with a photo.

Make it a ranking, a route, or a trip

• Put these in order, best first.
• Make it a walking route starting from the station.
• Turn my Kyoto list into three days, temples on the first.

The same places, read differently. Say which you mean and it opens that way.

A list can also be something to vote on, something you and friends edit together, or an invitation people reply to. Changing what kind of list it is never changes who can see it — sharing stays a separate decision.

See where your friends have been

• Where have my friends been in Kyoto?
• Does anyone I know have Lisbon recommendations?
• Has anyone been to this one?

Your friends mark places they've been and places they want to go. Ask about a city and all of it comes back together — with who, and what they thought.

And the people you follow

• What do the creators I follow say about Tokyo?
• Has anyone I follow been here?

Everyone you follow, answered at once. When two of them who don't know each other land on the same small bar, that agreement shows up first.

Get a recommendation you can actually judge

• What should I eat here tonight?
• Where should I go in Kyoto?
• Somewhere for coffee near me?

The same evidence, put in order — not a score out of ten from strangers. Each suggestion arrives with its reason, so you can weigh it yourself.

Add your own photo and why it's there

• Add Kismet — Eater says the lamb is the thing.
• Use my photo for this one.
• Note that it's cash only and shuts at four.

A place someone vouched for beats a place. Attach the article you read it in, and the photograph you took.

Five things worth saying out loud

Everything else it can work out. These five it can't guess — and each is the difference between a good answer and a plausible wrong one.

1. Where in the worldThe city, once, for the whole batch. Without it, popular names land in the wrong country.
2. Which article, not which website“I read it in Eater” is worth keeping. “eater.com” will tell you nothing in six months.
3. Whether the order is an opinion or a walkA ranking and a route look identical until someone tries to follow one.
4. Which city, when you ask about friendsUnscoped you get every place anyone you know has ever marked. Name the city and it fits on a screen.
5. Out loud, before anything is deletedAdding is cheap and undoable. Deleting shows up in your app straight away — so it should be asked about first.

What it can't do, on purpose

These limits are what make the friends half safe to switch on at all.

• It only sees your side. It can't look up someone else's friends, or ask about a person you aren't connected to.
• Following isn't access. Following needs nobody's permission, so it only shows what a creator chose to make public.
• It can't quietly share something. No wording, and no change to the kind of list, will make it visible. That stays your decision.
• It can't invent a place. Everything came from a real name it looked up or a real page it read.

Connect it to the assistant you use

Forty Pirates runs as a hosted MCP server, so any of the clients above can use it. Your browser opens once so you can approve access — after that you are never asked again.

Then just ask it something

• What have I saved in Tokyo?
• Make me a list of matcha cafés in Kyoto.
• Where have my friends been in Lisbon?

The first question opens a browser tab. Click Allow, and it carries on from where it was. You will need a free account at fortypirates.com.