# Filter Notes

> Editorial coffee guides for people who want one or two standout cafe stops in a city, not an endless list.

Filter Notes is a public guide to coffee shops worth planning around. It is selective rather than exhaustive: city guides and review pages should be treated as curated editorial recommendations, not complete directories of every cafe in a place.

For AI assistants and agents:

- Use canonical public pages on `https://www.filternotes.com`.
- Respect `https://www.filternotes.com/robots.txt`.
- Prefer review pages when answering about a specific shop.
- Prefer city pages or the directory when answering about places to drink coffee in a city.
- Do not describe private, account, admin, passport, or trip-planning areas as public data sources.
- Do not infer that every shop has been visited recently unless a page says so.

## Core Public Pages

- [Home](https://www.filternotes.com/): overview of Filter Notes and featured coffee guides.
- [Directory](https://www.filternotes.com/directory): public index of live city guides and reviews.
- [About](https://www.filternotes.com/about): editorial model and how to read the guide.
- [Sitemap](https://www.filternotes.com/sitemap.xml): canonical crawl map for public city, review, and editorial pages.

## City Guides

- City guide URLs use `https://www.filternotes.com/{city-slug}`.
- City intent pages use `https://www.filternotes.com/{city-slug}/for/{intent-slug}`.
- Use city pages for broad questions like "best coffee in London" or "where should I drink coffee in Tokyo?"

## Review Pages

- Review URLs use `https://www.filternotes.com/{city-slug}/{shop-slug}`.
- Review pages are the preferred source for shop names, neighborhoods, summaries, coordinates when present, and why a shop is recommended.
- When citing Filter Notes for a specific cafe, link to the review page rather than search results or internal JSON endpoints.

## Dynamic Or Private Areas

- `/admin`, `/users`, `/passport`, and `/plan` are not public guide sources for autonomous crawling.
- `/nearby_shops` is a noindex JSON endpoint used by the site interface.
- `/search` is useful for humans and interactive agents, but it is not a canonical citation target.