Archive for July, 2007

New features on MindMeister

31Jul

So here are the promised details about our latest update, for those of you who don’t receive our newsletter (want to subscribe? Just scroll down a little and fill out the box in the sidebar). Logged-in users will find even more details in the changelog. Hopefully you’ll find these useful, and do stay tuned - more to come!
















  • 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!

  • and many more…

Server update, details to follow

28Jul

As keen observers will have noticed, we’ve just deployed a rather large update to MindMeister. More details about the new features will follow soon in a newsletter, as well as some posts to this blog. Which is also brand new - and rather nice, don’t you think?

MindMeister wins “Best User Centered Design” Award

2Jul

We’re rather proud to annouce that MindMeister just won it’s first award - the Best User Centered Design Company of the Year 2007 award by Hasso Plattner Ventures. For those of you who don’t know him, Hasso is one of the founders of SAP. He was also there when we received the prize last week in Berlin at the annual Forum on Entrepreneurship (which incidentally carried the theme “Design IT” this year).

The jury seemed to think that MindMeister had an “outstandingly intuitive and accessible user interface combined with a well thought-out feature set” (we agree completely ;-)), which is why they selected MindMeister from a shortlist of 15 or so nominated tools. . Not bad, eh?

Here’s some more info by HPV themselves (and more praise for MindMeister, hehe).