MindMeister announces upgrade with lots of new features
MindMeister has been live for about three months. This week they rolled out a major upgrade to the on-line mind mapping service. Among the new features:
- Links on ideas
Support for internal (between maps, or also to individual nodes) and external (websites, email addresses) links on ideas
- Automatic layouter
No more overlapping ideas and branches with the new auto layouter - can also be triggered manually on “messed up” maps by pressing F8
- Note and link previews
Notes and links on ideas can now be previewed by hovering over the respective icon, including site previews
- Reworked, more organic lines
We’ve changed the line drawing mechanism so that mind maps now hopefully look more organic. The poll in the last newsletter went in favour of the slightly rounded lines (with about 40%)
- Automatic canvas resizing
The map canvas will automatically resize to the size of the map, e.g. on import of large maps or when adding lots of ideas
- Changes view date slider
In changes mode the footer will display a date slider that you can use to constrain the time period for which changes are shown. Clicking on links in notification mails will only highlight changes since your last visit.
- Start new map from idea
You can quickly create new maps from ideas through the right-click menu, and the new map can automatically be linked to the current one
- Export as PDF
The map canvas will automatically resize to the size of the map, e.g. on import or when adding many ideas
- Enhanced printing
Choose whether you want to print in full size or fit to page, and with open or closed branches
- Browse public maps
You can now browse, search and view all public maps on MindMeister - let us know which ones you like through the good old star rating system!
MindMeister has also released an API which opens up opportunities for mash-ups and tool integrations. As well, to help you keep on top of what’s happening with MindMeister, there is now a blog.
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