RideMemo — user guide

Discover, save, and share rides worth remembering.

A short tour of what you can do. RideMemo is still growing, so this stays general — the shape of things, not every setting.

Getting in

Sign in with your email address. There is no password: you get an email with a link and a code, and either works.

On a phone, use the code. If you have added RideMemo to your Home Screen, tapping the link opens Safari instead and signs you in there, not in the app. Typing the code into the app is the way in.

Signing in lets you save rides and keep private notes on them. Adding your own route guides needs approval from a maintainer.

On your phone

Open the site in Safari, then Share → Add to Home Screen. It runs without browser chrome, so instead of a back button, pages carry a link in the header back to where they belong.

Four places to be: Explore, My Rides, Compare, Account.

Explore

The map and the library, side by side.

One search box finds both places and rides. Start typing and it offers matching towns and regions alongside rides whose name or area fits. Pick a place and the map goes there; pick a ride and it opens.

Filters sit behind a button — difficulty, ride type, and ranges for distance, climbing and steepness. Apply them and they appear as chips you can remove one at a time.

The list follows the map, showing what is in view with the nearest first. You can turn that off to see everything. Searching never moves the map on you, and the map’s position travels in the link you copy, so sharing a view shares the place as well as the filters.

Every ride’s card carries its distance, climbing and grades, and four buttons: save, share, edit (if it is yours), and compare.

A ride

The details on the left, the map and elevation profile on the right. Drag the divider to trade one for the other.

Hover the chart to read the elevation and grade at that point, with a dot tracking your position on the map.

Drag across the chart to select a stretch. You get its distance, climbing, descent and grades, and that stretch is highlighted on the route.

Turning the map. Hold Shift and scroll to spin it, Option and scroll to tilt it. In Safari you can also twist with two fingers on a trackpad, which Chrome and Firefox unfortunately do not report to the page at all. Dragging with the right button, or holding Ctrl while you drag, does both at once. The compass beside the zoom buttons points north; click it to go back.

Export GPX downloads the track. Save puts it on your list.

Compare

Two to five rides at once — from the library, or GPX files you drop in. Files you upload stay in your browser.

Each ride gets a small profile. With a mouse you can drag across it to keep just part of a ride; on a phone, dragging reads out the height and distance under your finger instead. The chart then lines every selection up from its own start, so rides of different lengths can be read against each other. Three ways to look: gain from the start, absolute elevation, or grade.

Dragging the main chart measures the same stretch on every ride, one row each. Where a ride is shorter than the stretch you picked, it says so rather than making a number up.

A comparison of library rides is a link you can share.

My Rides

Your workspace, laid out like Explore: your rides on the left, on a map on the right.

Two sets of filters, and both take several at once:

• Rides I wrote — draft, submitted, published, archived
• My lists — saved, planning to ride, completed

They are separate because they answer different questions, so choosing a list does not hide your drafts.

Adding a ride

Needs approval. Look for Add Ride.

A route can come from a GPX file, a link to one, a page on a service like Strava or RideWithGPS, your connected Strava account, or a whole RideWithGPS collection at once. A collection is previewed first, so you can see what is new before anything is imported.

The route arrives already measured and saved as a draft, and you land in the editor — the ride page with the fields switched on.

The track is on the right. Drag across the profile to keep part of it, and the figures beside it update as you go. You can also reverse it or clean up GPS glitches. Nothing is destroyed: earlier versions are kept and can be restored.

The details are on the left — title, summary, description, type, difficulty, location, links, and local notes for the things a map cannot tell you, like parking, water and hazards.

Save keeps the ride where it is. Moving it on — submitting, publishing, archiving — is a separate, labelled button.

About the numbers

Distance, climbing, descent and grades are measured from the GPX file rather than typed, and they are worked out again whenever the track changes. So they stay true to the route, and you cannot edit them directly.

A couple of consequences worth knowing:

• Small wobbles are not climbing. GPS jitter is ignored, so the figures read like a bike computer’s rather than a naive sum.
• Grade means a sustained pitch, not the steepest pair of points, which over two GPS readings is just noise.
• Ride times are checked before they are believed. A file carrying timestamps that were never ridden loses them rather than claiming an impossible average.

Where a ride is gets worked out from the route itself, not its title. The area label you write stays yours.

Who can do what

Your drafts are visible only to you. So are your saved rides and anything you write on them.

Still to come

• One list, called My Rides. Named collections are coming
• No offline use yet
• Some rides have no description written yet