Turn Rated Places Into a List With Mosey

You can turn rated places into a list in Mosey without typing a single name again. When three or more of your rated places share a tag, such as a cuisine or a kind of place, the app offers to gather them into a list. You untick any you do not want, name the list and save it.

How do you turn rated places into a list?

There are two doors in. The first is your Top Rated list, the permanent list where your highest-rated places collect. On it you will see a button labeled "Turn this into a list." The second is the Lists tab, where suggestions appear under a heading called "From your ratings," each one asking a question such as "Turn these into a coffee list?" with a line beneath it: "Your coffee places, from your ratings. Choose the ones to keep."

Tap either one and a preview opens. Every place starts selected, and the screen says "Every place is checked. Uncheck any you do not want." A counter shows how many are selected out of the total, and each place has its own tick box, so removing one takes a single tap.

Why does the app suggest a list from your ratings?

Because people rate places for months and then cannot find them again. A rating is a record of a meal, not a plan for the next one, and a list is the plan. When the app notices a pattern in your ratings, it saves you the work of building the list yourself.

The grouping follows tags you already know. Mosey files each rated place under the tags it carries, for the type of place and the cuisine, and offers a group once you have three or more places in it. The biggest groups come first, and at most six suggestions show at a time. That keeps the Lists tab tidy, and it means the list you are offered is one you have genuinely built through your own ratings.

How do you choose the places to keep?

Use the tick boxes in the preview. You might rate five coffee places and want only the three you would send a friend to. Uncheck the other two and they stay out of the new list, though your ratings of them are untouched. The preview also shows a list name, prefilled as "My top rated places" for the Top Rated group or "My" followed by the tag and "places" for a tag group, and you can change it to anything.

If the name is already used by another list of yours, the app asks you to pick a different one: "You already have a list with that name. Choose another." Tap Create list and you are done.

What happens after the list is created?

It becomes an ordinary Mosey list, with nothing special about it. You can add a note to each place about why it belongs, sort places into sections, drag them into a new order, add more by search and decide who can see it. The guide to building a food list with friends shows how to invite people to add to it, and the lists feature page covers privacy and sharing.

One thing to know: the list is not kept in step with your ratings. It is a snapshot of the places you chose that day. If you rate a sixth coffee place next month, it will not appear by itself. Add it by hand, or wait for a fresh suggestion later.

What can you do with the list?

Plenty. A list of your favorite pizza places is useful to a friend who is visiting. A list of your best breakfast spots is useful to you on a Sunday morning with no plan. A list of places you rated highly, shared with a partner, becomes a short list for the next date night, and the date night list guide walks through that.

A list built from ratings also makes a handy gift of knowledge. When a cousin asks where to eat on a weekend trip, you can send your coffee list instead of typing out five names from memory, and they can add their own notes beside yours. The same list works for you when you travel: a short set of your own tastes is a better guide in an unfamiliar town than a stranger's long one.

You can also use it to look back. Seeing every bakery you have rated in one place tells you what you like better than any single rating does, and it may show you a gap, such as a cuisine you rate often but have never put on a list.

What if the suggestion you want does not appear?

Suggestions need at least three rated places that share a tag, so a handful of ratings spread across different cuisines may produce none. Rate a few more of the kind you want, or start from the Top Rated list, which is always there. You can also make a list by hand from the Lists tab and add the places yourself, which takes a minute, and the result is the same kind of list.

Does turning ratings into lists help local places?

It does, in a small way. A list you share is a recommendation from someone the reader may trust, and it costs the place nothing. Mosey is free for a place to list, has no hidden fees and keeps its tools affordable, so a good list does more for a neighborhood place than it would for a business paying a middleman. That is supporting local at the speed of a few taps.

Organize more of what you eat with the US food guides. Rate three places of one kind in the Mosey app, then accept the first suggested list when it appears.