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How to Add a Fictional Location to an Existing Nomi Mind Map
To add a fictional location to an existing Nomi Mind Map, search for duplicates, use the map's available add-entry control, and enter a descriptive title with a short setting note. Reopen its dossier, choose Standard or High priority deliberately, then decide whether its text should evolve or stay locked.
Before starting: an existing map, privacy and payment
Use an existing eligible adult account with an already visible solo Mind Map. This guide does not unlock a map or establish your entitlement.
Nomi's Mind Map overview describes separate solo and group maps and delayed initial formation. No universal menu route or message-count unlock is assumed here.
Use invented places and fictional adults, not real addresses or private relationship records. Read current processing, retention and deletion terms before submitting anything sensitive; a room-specific map is not proof of confidentiality. Before paying, verify access, total charge, renewal and cancellation. Do not upgrade just to investigate missing controls.
1. Confirm the intended solo map
Start from the visible map belonging to your one-to-one conversation, not a group map. Use its table view to inspect entries.
Check the displayed conversation identity before editing. Expected outcome: you can identify the intended map and inspect a dossier by opening an entry. If the map or controls are absent, stop at the alternative below; do not guess a profile-menu path.
2. Search before creating another location
Search for your intended location name and any alternate name already used in the story. Inspect likely matches before adding anything.
The manual-entry guide advises against heavily overlapping entries in the same category. If a match describes the same place, reuse it and refine only what is needed. Expected outcome: one existing concept to maintain, or no matching entry and a reason to create one. Automatic merging is not assumed.
3. Prepare one harmless setting note
Use a recognizable place name and a few facts you actually want to reuse. There is no required entry template.
Original example: Title: Lantern Quay. Text: Lantern Quay is a fictional riverside market in an invented city. Adult mapmakers trade hand-drawn charts there. A green clock tower overlooks the landing. Alex and Morgan visit to exchange travel sketches. The market closes at dusk.
Expected outcome: a compact reference you can inspect. Keep today's temporary actions out; 'Morgan has just dropped a sketch' is scene state, not essential location lore. This example is an editorial suggestion, not a tested prompt.
4. Add the entry and reopen its dossier
Use the add-entry control actually available in that map. Enter your title and note, then complete the interface's displayed confirmation action.
Return to the table, search the exact title and open the resulting dossier. Compare its name and text with your note. Expected outcome: the intended location is visible in the intended map. An open editor alone does not confirm persistence.
If it is missing or duplicated, inspect the existing results before trying again. Do not repeatedly submit copies or claim a save succeeded when you cannot reopen it.
5. Choose Standard or High deliberately
Start with Standard for this ordinary setting. The priority guide recommends Standard for most entries; their active status can change.
Choose High only if this location genuinely needs to remain active. High has limited capacity per category; relevance still determines which active entries are considered during a reply. Expected outcome: a deliberate priority choice, not a promise that every response will mention the quay. Do not demote unrelated entries merely to make room for this exercise.
6. Decide between evolving and locked text
Leave the entry unlocked if discoveries should update the setting. For fixed lore, inspect the available lock control before choosing it.
The editing guide says locking prevents automatic entry changes; unlocking resumes updates. Expected outcome: you know whether the dossier may evolve. Locking does not rewrite underlying memories. If the control or its state is unclear, leave the experiment unresolved rather than assuming the text is frozen.
7. Make one bounded recall check, then stop
In the same solo conversation, ask once: 'In our fictional setting, what landmark overlooks Lantern Quay?' Do not supply the answer in the question.
Compare the reply with the green clock tower in your note. Record consistent, incorrect or uncertain; then reopen the dossier and inspect its text and visible settings. Expected outcome: one observed reply and a separate entry check, not verified long-term recall.
Recent context could influence an accurate answer. A wrong answer does not prove the entry vanished. End this check instead of retrying until something sounds right; repeated prompts would obscure the initial observation and may consume allowance.
Errors, missing controls and an alternative
For a visible textual mistake, correct only the wrong portion and reopen the dossier. Editing this summary does not change the memories behind it.
Stop for missing controls, unexplained payment or uncertain persistence. Ask official help using a redacted description of your client and the missing action, not a private transcript. Meanwhile, keep the fictional note offline and provide it as ordinary scene context only if comfortable submitting it. That alternative does not create or validate a Mind Map entry.
Conclusion: keep the result narrow
Finish with one inspectable location, a chosen priority and a deliberate lock decision. Sources checked October 30, 2026, Asia/Shanghai. This is documentation-based; no signed-in creation, persistence or recall result was tested.
Frequently asked questions
Does High priority make Nomi read my location entry on every reply?
No. High keeps it active, but selection remains relevance-based. An active entry is not guaranteed to be used in every reply.
What if Lantern Quay already exists under another name?
Inspect the matching dossier and reuse the same location concept where appropriate. Avoid creating a competing entry just to change its name.
Does locking a fictional location also change its underlying memories?
No. Locking prevents automatic changes to the entry text. Editing or locking a summary does not rewrite the underlying memories.
Does Low priority erase a fictional place from Nomi?
No. Low excludes the entry from active Mind Map consideration; it is not proof of deleting long-term memories, transcripts or provider-held data.
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