It’s St. Patrick’s Day and we at MindMeister thought it would be great craic to celebrate the grand occasion with another special promotion. This March 17th we’re offering 40% off all MindMeister PRO accounts set up on Paddy’s Day 2009.
The offer applies to both our Premium Edition and Business Edition. So, if you’ve been waiting for the right moment to bring your entire team on board, this would be it, to be sure!
To avail of this offer, simply enter the code
leprechaun09
in the Promotion Code field on the signup pages and we’ll automatically take the 40% off your license fee. Sláinte!
So MindMeister was present at this year’s MacWorld in San Francisco. We were lucky to get a partner booth at Axiotron’s booth with a small partner stand, and Till flew in from Munich to join our US guys. Visitors could have a chat to the MeisterWorkers and marvel at MindMeister running on the latest Modbook – check out the video below to see Till demonstrate some of the new features of our latest release.
Here’s James posing happily together with Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple Computer.
James, Woz and MindMeister on the Modbook
Making the most of a stay in the Valley the guys also met some partners and customers, such as Aaron and Jeremyfrom Box.net – nice offices btw!
At the same time as launching the Box.net partnership, we’ve also completed another API integration: MindMeister is now also available on net-files, a German online storage and file management provider. Click for more details on how MindMeister is integrated in net-files(in German)
For our customers, the ability to create and edit documents online – without the need for locally installed software packages – gets more and more important. MindMeister and net-files complement each other in that we both focus on an intuitive user interface. The combination of MindMeister and net-files offers the best solution regarding functionality and ease of use” explained Thomas Krempl, Founder and CEO of net-files GmbH.
Similar to the Box.net integration, net-files also allows editing of other mind mapping document formats like MindManagerTM and Freemind.
You might remember that about 6 weeks ago we did a user survey, asking you MindMeisters about use cases of mind mapping, brainstorming, and planning with MindMeister. We wanted to know what you’re doing with it, what new features you’d like us to add etc. We received tons of response which is greatly appreciated – just over 1,800 filled out the four page questionnaire and helped us understand their needs and get a better idea of the road ahead.
We’ve now managed to put together some of the results here. Please check out the chart widget below and feel free to interpret the results, letting us know what you think.
As promised here is the more verbose version of the most recent update of MindMeister. Release 3 contains lots of enhancements to the ease of use and overall consistency of MindMeister, plus some bigger feature blocks. Two important things we just didn’t get done in time though – inline images and connections between ideas. They’re in the making though, expect them before Christmas!
Many more features for easier task management in MindMeister, including start date and duration, email notifications, iCalendar feeds, WunderTasks and a task overview from all maps.
Search and filter, better tags
The new map search – you’ll find it in your map list view – makes managing many maps a lot easier. You can search for titles and contents, and even use Find in maps (CTRL-F). Also, managing tags was enhanced with a new overflow dropdown.
Resize ideas and wrap
Overlong idea labels always created problems. In the new release you can now resize them via drag and drop, and your maps will also keep the wrappings when exported e.g. to PDF or as image.
History View
We completely revamped the version history to make viewing and replaying the collaborative changes of a mind map a useful and fun experience. Clicking on the coloured bullets starts “replay” mode. See also our tutorial video.
WikiMaps
You can now turn any public map into a WikiMap. This will make it editable for everybody (well, everybody who has a MindMeister account, to avoid spamming). Quite useful to gather input from many people at once!
Import text files
In addition to Freemind and MindManagerTM formats, you can now also import plain text files into MindMeister.
Emailing attachments
Geisesblitz Email now supports attachments which will be inserted as attachments to your ideas into MindMeister.
Many more key shortcuts
Our users say they love them, so we’ve added quite a few more for common operations. See a complete list.
Other enhancements
New user interface, revamped “My Account” section, Offline mode for Safari, recommendations in map view, new export dialog and options, better printing (via PDF), clone public maps, larger note previews and much more.
Well, we hope you benefit from all the work that is put into MindMeister. We strive to make the best online mind mapping experience available and welcome all your feedback on the new stuff.
Please note that we will conduct a major upgrade on Friday October 31 between 20:00 (UTC) and 22:00 (UTC) and on Sunday November 2 between 20:00 (UTC) and 2008-11-3 02:00 (UTC). To figure out when we are offline in your time zone please consult timeanddate.com.
Please avoid taking your maps offline with Google Gears this time as we also upgrade MindMeister’s offline capabilities.
While the downtime is currently scheduled for the time slots above, it might take longer as we also move to new hardware but we will do our best to bring MindMeister back asap. We’re sorry for any inconvenience caused and hope you’ll like the new features in the upcoming version of MindMeister.
Update: As you will have seen we’re online again with the new version. We’re still fighting with some setup issues that might result in hanging requests here or there. We hope to have these sorted out soon and will then let you know abou the new features!
Update 2: We still have some load balancing issues with the new server environment (which in theory should be much faster than the old one!) so the site is very slow at times. We’ll upgrade some software and will probably have some short downtimes today (Tuesday Nov 4). Please bear with us.
We just closed our survey yesterday. Thanks a lot for participating. We had an overwhelming response both in terms of numbers and quantitative and qualitative input. We received 1,813 responses and lots of ideas on how to improve MindMeister and position it successfully as a premier mind mapping application.
It’ll take some time to analyze all the results but we’ll keep you posted on our findings, and publish whatever we think may be interesting to the greater public.
In the meantime we also selected the lucky five winners of the Threadless vouchers and sent out the gift certificates – congratulations!
We’ve received word about a new, highly inspiring mind mapping competition. The World Mind Network, and its affiliate Friends Beyond Borders, are offering a US$ 5000 prize for the best Collaborative Mind Map addressing the problem of world poverty.
We think this is a great idea, and we’d love to see one of our users win this competition and contribute towards a solution to this immense issue. To take part in the competition, just create a new map, share it with your friends and colleagues (or publish it to your blog) and put together some ideas addressing the issue. When you’re done, tag the map with worldpoverty and publish it on MindMeister. We’ll take care of everything else.
Make sure that when you’re thinking about the issue, you try to direct your mind towards positive thoughts, such as world affluence rather than world poverty. We don’t want to send too much negative energy out into the world.
For details on the competition, see the press release on Scribd.
As already mentioned above, we’ve done some work on the mind map lines to make them look smoother and more organic. However, we’re not quite sure what degree of “curvedness” to go for, so we thought we’d let you have a pick!
It’s simple – just click the link below and let us know which line type you like best – you can also tell us to make it configurable if you think your tastes vary!
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It’s St. Patrick’s Day and we at MindMeister thought it would be great craic to celebrate the grand occasion with another special promotion. This March 17th we’re offering 40% off all MindMeister PRO accounts set up on Paddy’s Day 2009.
