Journey
Journey turns a single drawn stroke into a generated tour. You drag a path across the map, Mantis collects the points near it in the order you crossed them, splits that run into segments each time the path enters a different cluster, and asks the backend to write a summary for every segment. The result is saved as a journey and opens in the Journeys panel.
- Shortcut
- j
- Available on
- Map (Legacy)
Heads up
Journey is not in the default Map’s tool island. Open Map (Legacy) from View > Exploration > Map (Legacy) to use it.
How to use it
- Open Map (Legacy) and choose Journey in the tool palette, or pressJ.
- Press and drag a stroke across the regions you want the tour to cover. Points within the path radius of the stroke are collected as you go, so the Path Tool Radius setting controls how wide a swath you sweep.
- Release. Generation starts immediately and reports its progress through ten stages, from Collecting points and Identifying clusters through Generating cluster content to Completing journey.
- Read it. When generation finishes the Journeys panel opens with the new journey, named
Journey <date and time>.
What generation does
Collected points keep the order of the stroke. Consecutive points in the same cluster become one step, so crossing back into a cluster later creates a second step for it rather than merging with the first. Each step is sent to the backend for a written summary of its points, and the assembled set of steps is posted as a journey belonging to the current space.
Limits
- Journey is a drawing gesture, not a recorder. It does not watch you navigate, and it does not log the panels you opened or the bags you built.
- Generation calls the backend once per step, so a stroke that crosses many clusters takes proportionally longer.
- The journey is saved automatically when generation succeeds; there is no separate save step and no export. Sharing happens from the Journeys panel.
- If no valid steps come out of the path, Mantis reports the failure and creates nothing.