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Memory Maps panel key m

The named point clouds your connecting brushes reach toward.

What it is

A memory map is a set of remembered points - separate from the painted pixels and shared across layers. Connecting brushes weave their web toward these points, so a map lets a drawing "remember" what to link to. Open the panel from the navbar maps pill (its ⌄ menu, then Memory map settings), the Windows menu, or m. For how maps feed the web, see Memory maps.

The flash icon on the navbar maps pill is a hot map toggle: click it to keep the active map's dots visible on the canvas while you draw (they flash once as they turn on, so you can spot them, and a chip shows the live point count), and click again to turn them off. It stays lit while the hot map is on.

Controls

Active map

The map new points are deposited into. Click a row to switch; its live point count shows here (and in the maps pill's ⌄ menu).

Flash

Each row's target button briefly lights up that map's dots on the canvas - a pulse that fades - so you can see where they are. (The navbar maps pill's flash icon instead holds the active map's dots on; see above.)

Highlight color

The swatch at the bottom sets the colour of the highlight dots, used by both the per-map flash and the navbar hot map. Click it to choose from the palette.

Add / Rename / Delete

Make a new map, double-click to rename, or remove one.

Web routing

The group below the map list controls how a connecting brush connects. It shows only for brushes that weave a web; the web reads from and trails into the active map automatically.

Connect to

Connect to old points, this stroke, both, or nothing - see Memory maps for the full breakdown.