You may remember the café where you met someone before you remember their name. Places in Dextr give that memory a useful home by connecting locations with contacts, events, and interactions.
A Place can be an event venue, a contact's address, a workplace, or somewhere you first met. Reusing the same location helps keep those connections together.
Add or find a place
From the Home screen's Add New area, choose Place, then search for the location you want to use. Check the name and address before selecting it, especially when several businesses share a name.
Places also appear as you add contact addresses and event venues. Before creating another version of a location, search for an existing one that already matches.
For example, use Austin Central Library for both a design workshop and the conversations you have there afterward. Reusing the same Place keeps those occasions connected.
Record where you first met someone
Open a contact's First Met details to associate the original meeting with a place. You can also open a Place and use First Met Here to add people you first met there.
Choose this only for the first meeting. If you already knew Maya before meeting her at the café, that coffee belongs in a Journal Entry, not a replacement for her First Met details.
Dextr asks for confirmation when an action would replace an existing first-meeting place. Check the date and location before accepting the change.
When First Met is linked to an Event, its date and place come from that event. Edit the event or change the association when the underlying occasion is wrong.
If a friend or colleague introduced you there, add the person who made the introduction to the contact’s Introduced By field. The Place records where you met; the introduction records who brought you together.
Connect places with events and addresses
When creating an Event, select its venue so the occasion is associated with the right location. The Events walkthrough uses a Community Design Evening at Austin Central Library to show how to connect a venue, attendees, conversation notes, and follow-up reminders.
A contact address serves a different purpose. It connects someone with a home, workplace, or other labeled address. Being associated with a place does not necessarily mean you first met there.
Keeping those distinctions clear helps you answer different questions: Who works here? Who did I meet here? Which events did I attend here?
Find people through a location
Open Places from Home or the app’s navigation, switch to the list view if needed, and search by a place name or address. Searching “Austin” brings up Austin Central Library with its counts of people first met there and associated contacts. Open the result to explore those connections.
Use the tabs beneath the address to explore First Met Here, Contacts, Events, and Interactions. In this example, the library has 13 people first met there and 12 contacts with a work address at that location. Open a person to see their contact details and meeting notes.
On iPhone and Mac, use the named Places destination rather than relying on an icon's position; the navigation layout differs between devices.
Start with places you already remember
You do not need to map your entire address book. Add the venue for your next event, the location of a meaningful conversation, or the café where you met someone you want to remember.
Pair the location with a useful note and a next step. For example: “Discussed captioning and accessible signage. Send the venue checklist.” To record a later conversation, create a Journal Entry, choose In-Person, and use Set Place to select the same location. Open the Place’s Interactions tab to find those notes again.
For the broader setup, return to Getting Started With Dextr.