Start Here: A Path for New Users

MononoMori helps you remember where your things are. You plant your home, your office or your collection as groves, record your things as items inside them, and later a quick search finds them. When something is about to expire, the app sends you a notification (in the app these are called Expiry Letters, and a little sparrow delivers them).

You do not have to record everything at once. Start with one thing you often look for, learn how to plant it and find it again, and add the rest bit by bit.

The free plan holds 30 items in stock (counted by quantity), 3 groves and 10 places in total. When you reach a limit, the app tells you “Your forest is full”. Nothing you have already recorded is lost. For how the plans differ, see Forest Guardian Plans.

Start with these three steps

1. Download & Installation: install the app and go through the welcome guide.
2. Plant Your First Grove: pick a place you know at a glance, such as “Home” or “Study”.
3. Add Your First Item: write a name, choose a grove and tap Plant.

Three words to remember first: a grove is a large area (your home, your office), a place is a spot inside a grove where things are kept (a closet, a drawer), and an item is a thing you want to remember. See Groves, Places & Items.

Three more words you will see often in the app:

• Leaf Gathering: items that are about to expire or have expired gather here like fallen leaves, waiting for you to renew or deal with them.
• Hibernate: tuck items you are not using for now out of your everyday browsing, and wake them when you need them.
• Farewell: use this when an item leaves your life. You can keep it in the Memory Forest as a keepsake, or put it in the Recycle Bin (the same as deleting it; you can get it back within 30 days).

Baskets, Memory Books and the rest can wait: read the guides below when you need them.

The four tabs at the bottom

The green + at the right end adds an item. For a closer look at each tab, see Interface Overview.

Carry on with what you want to do

Bring things into the forest

• Record a wardrobe or a desk quickly: start with the “what to use” table in Start Organizing from One Spot at Home. To type things in one after another without photos, use continuous planting.
• Record a whole table of things from one photo: Gather from a Photo
• Read the tags and tree rings on an item page: Item Pages
• Keep the same kind of thing in several spots: Manage by Lots

Organize and find things

• Search and filter in Items, and choose what the cards show: Items: Find, Arrange & Marks
• Categories and tags: Categories & Subcategories, Tags
• Lay your groves out on a map like a floor plan: Forest Map, Lenses on the Map

Everyday care

• Things about to expire, and Expiry Letters: Leaf Gathering and Expiry Letters. First give the item an Expiry Date (its category must record expiry dates; Uncategorized does not by default). Set how early letters come in More › Expiry Reminder.
• Things you are not using for now: Item Hibernation
• A checklist for going out: Baskets and Packing Along the Path

Together with family

• Share a grove with family or friends: Shared Groves: Inviting Companions. The person who invites needs Plus (1 companion) or Premium (up to 6); joining is free.

Farewells and memories

• Something is used up, given away or sold, or you want to delete an item you recorded by mistake: Farewell and the Recycle Bin
• Tags after a farewell: Memory Forest and Moments in Time
• Put items, photos and words together into a book: Memory Books

Protect your data

• Before you switch to a new phone: seal a backup first, save it to Files, then restore it on the new phone. The three steps are at the top of Forest Backup & Restoration.
• Make a backup, or restore from one: Forest Backup & Restoration
• How sync differs from backup, and how to turn on iCloud Sync: Backup & Sync
• How the free plan differs from Plus and Premium: Forest Guardian Plans

If something goes wrong, start with FAQ and Troubleshooting.