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Breedmap wiki
How to use the Breedmap app, by topic. For anything not covered here, write to [email protected].
Getting started
- What BreedMap isA breeding and lineage tracking app for plants, fungi, animals and other organisms, in the browser and on phones.
- GlossaryThe words BreedMap uses, from project and item to workspace, seat and torch.
- Finding your way: the main menusWhere the sections, the user menu, the workspace chip, the Settings menu and the My account page are.
- Sign up (create your login)Create your BreedMap login with your email address, an emailed code, your name and your birth date.
- Sign inSign in with an emailed code, a password plus a second step, a passkey or Google, and what to do when you forgot your password.
- Security: password, authenticator app, passkeys, devicesSet or change a password, turn on two-factor sign-in, add passkeys, sign out other devices, and keep a recovery key.
- Your profile and public cardEdit your name, @handle, photo and the other values on your public card, choose what is shown, and change your email.
- Accounts, workspaces and switchingThe difference between a workspace and a saved login, how to switch either, invitations, roles and seats.
- Sign out, delete local data, delete accountWhat each of the three does, what stays and what goes, and how account deletion works in the app today.
- Help and supportThe help assistant in the app, its daily limits and chat history, the help button, the written FAQ and how to reach support.
- Try the demo projectAdd a read-only sample project of about 500 items to your Personal workspace to try the views, and remove it again.
- App updates and versionsHow the Android app updates, what "Update required" means, where the version is shown, and how the browser version updates.
Projects and items
- Create a projectA project holds your items and the card they share; make one from the "New project" tile in Private.
- Create an itemAdd one individual (a plant, culture, animal or batch) to a project with the "New item" tile and the five-step "Add item" wizard.
- Fields, cards and templatesFill in an item's values, change the project's card with "Edit fields", and reuse cards as templates.
- Photos, videos and documentsAdd files to an item, decide which photo details may be shown in public, blur parts of a photo, and set the item picture.
- Care logKeep a diary of what was done to an item (watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, treatment or your own types).
- Link items: parents and offspringAdd a child, link two existing items as parent and child, or link your item to someone else's item by ID or QR code.
- Sync and offline useBreedMap is offline first; changes are saved on the device at once and sent to the server when you sync.
- Search: items, people and speciesThe search field finds public items, people and your own items; the species search finds scientific and common names from Catalogue of Life.
- Species search resultsWhat a species result row shows, how to tell similar names apart, and the limits of the species search.
- Family tree views: Tree, Flat and ConstellationSee an item's lineage as a tree, a flat layout or a 3D constellation, trace ancestry and filter what is shown.
- Torch view and the public family treeIn a public family tree the torch lights the nodes nearest the centre and dims the rest; Free lights 20 nodes, paid plans can tune or switch it off.
- Export your dataMake a password-locked full backup (ZIP) or a CSV file of your items, projects or whole workspace.
- Import dataBring BreedMap backups (.zip) or CSV files into your projects, merged by name or as new projects.
Sharing and care
- Publish an item, and retract itHow an item goes from Private to the public registry, what the preview shows, and how to take it back.
- Print a QR labelDesign and print a label with the item's QR code and short code, and scan it later to open the item.
- Follow projects, people and itemsFollow public projects, people and items in Public, and see who follows you.
- Care remindersPlan care on an item or project as tasks, events or alerts, with repeats and a time zone.
- Care agenda and notificationsOne list of what is due across everything you may see, and how BreedMap reminds you.
- Send and read messagesIn-app messages between people, with an Inbox for people you know and an Other mailbox for everyone else.
- Friends, contacts, blocking and message limitsWho can write to you, how to become friends or add a contact, how to block or report, and the daily limits.
- Linked devices: home automation, sensors and wateringGive a device a token so it can tick care tasks done, send readings and see what is due.
Plans and workspaces
- Plans: Free, Premium, Family and ProfessionalWhich plans exist, what each one includes, where to see your own plan, and how payments will work.
- Free limitsThe exact limits of the Free plan, what happens when you reach them, and the limits every plan shares.
- Paid plans: what changesWhat Premium, a Family adult seat and a Professional seat lift, what they raise, and what stays the same.
- Family workspace and seatsCreate a family, find its Family ID, invite adults and relatives, appoint seats, hand over the main admin role, leave or dissolve.
- Kid accounts and guardiansHow a child under 15 gets an account inside a family, what guardians can and cannot do, and what a kid account cannot use.
- Company workspace, roles and ownerCreate or join a company, what the owner, admins and members may do, hand over ownership and name an inheritor.
- Company licences and tokensThe Professional licences a company can hold, how seats are appointed, and how the token pool charges 10 tokens for a 24-hour window.
Legal and privacy
- Terms of Service: summaryA plain-words summary of the draft Terms of Service (v2.7): what they are, your content and the licence you grant, data use, rules, reporting and law.
- Terms of Service: plans, payments and messagesWhat the draft Terms (v2.7) say about plans and limits, payments and refunds, family and kid accounts, and messages.
- Privacy Policy: summaryA plain-words summary of the draft Privacy Policy (v2.4): who is responsible, what is collected, where it is kept, photos, analytics and cookies.
- Privacy: security, messages and supportHow your data is protected, who can read messages and support requests, and what the help assistant stores, from the draft Privacy Policy (v2.4).
- GDPR: your rights and retentionYour GDPR rights, how to make a request, and how long logs, exports, messages and other data are kept.
- Delete your accountHow to delete your BreedMap account, what is removed at once, what stays, and what happens to an unused account.