meMap is designed to be a format to share any journey or change you are trying to make with others. The
intention is not to try to replace a good supportive chat on the phone or a visit. It is to facilitate more
focussed dialogues where people compare notes on what they want, what they experience and and what does or might
address anything they face. By sending all or bits of your Best Stuff and Reframe Maps and to others, they may
hear your story, offer support, add helpful suggestions or gain benefits themselves from the experience and
wisdom you conveyed.
To communicate via meMap, both users should download either MEMap Lighter Load, MEMap Original or meMap 'Stress
Stuff to Best Stuff' from the Google Play store - it is not necessary for users to choose the same version. Both
then need to register for online services on the MEMap Original website
Register page. meMap 'Stress-Best' and MEMap Lighter Load users should ignore the sidebar on that page:
you do not need to register to Configure your App.
Once you have registered and created a username and password, Frames are sent from the App's Reframe Map Outbox,
and Bubbles sent from the Best Stuff Map Outbox (accessible from the top right menus in the App).
You can create items to send in both of your App's outboxes. Or copy 'Sender' Frames or 'Inbox' Bubbles sent to
you by others into the outboxes, where you can react to, edit and reply to them. OR copy 'Your own' Frames or
Bubbles to the outboxes. In the outboxes the normal edit options that exist for Bubbles or Frames include an
added 'tag' option where you can add or modify a hashtag subject or question to an item (for example, 'Do you
feel this?'). You can post all of your outbox or all of 'Your own' items to another App user by inputting your
username and password and their username. When you post items a pin will be generated for the username you sent
to. You will need to tell, text, email etc this pin to the recipient.
Download items sent to you by ensuring you are in the Best Stuff Map if the items are Bubbles, or the Reframe
Map if the items are Frames. Select Download from the top right menu. You can either use a pin to download a
specified set of items. Or check the box and use the username of a Sender to generate a list of the most recent
items they sent you. Follow the instructions given to get Bubbles tagged and into Inbox, or Frames into a named
screen dedicated to your Sender.
If your phone or tablet has an email App installed, there is an alternative option to email items to anyone you
wish (emailing yourself is a useful and recommended way of backing up information you have written in Bubbles or
Frames that has become valuable to you). Emailed Bubbles and Frames will be set out in the email as written
text. When creating a new Frame it is possible for it to be a 'Thoughts Box'. This is an opportunity to write
any thoughts and notes to add context to the Frames you are sending.
App to App communication may sometimes involve users of the MEMap Apps for ME/CFS
sending you their Frames. when this happens it will sometimes be possible to view subject area or Buddy example
contextual information which will help explain background to a Frame. To view this contextual info, the Frame
must either be copied to 'Your own' Frames or to the Outbox of your App. Pressing the Frame heading will then
reveal this contextual info if it exists.
You may wish to start a dialogue with a user of one of the MEMap Apps about one of the 30
categories/subject areas described on the MEMap Original website (eg here). To create a Frame which includes the contextual info for any of these categories,
use NEW FRAME in the App's Reframe Map to create a new Frame. When prompted to give a 'Heading/label for Frame'
simply put the number of the category you wish to use. Your Frame will now have the relevant heading and
contextual info. You can then edit and send the Frame as usual.
