16Dec
In our continued commitment to bringing you the ultimate collaborative mind mapping experience we’re happy to announce a host of new features!
Si, nous parlons Dansk
MindMeister is now supported in six languages. In addition to our existing English, German and Japanese support, we’re happy to offer Spanish, French, and Danish versions. All versions have been proofread, but if you’re a native speaker of any of these languages and find an error – please let us know by sending us an email.
In-Map Chat
While we’ve supported Skype integration for quite some time, not everyone has, or has the ability to use Skype at all times while working on a mind map. To this end, we’ve introduced a chat feature directly within the browser window. To get started chatting with fellow collaborators, simply click on their name at the bottom of your mind map to open a chat window.
Embedded Maps now with Live Update
Initially debuted during the TEDxAmsterdam live mind mapping sessions, embedded maps now include the option to continuously poll MindMeister for updates. This option opens up an entirely new avenue in mind mapping, as live sessions can now be streamed to not only collaborators, but the entire world.
New publish features, embed wizard
You can now put your public maps in categories in the revamped Publish dialog and customize embedding options in the new Embed Wizard. Premium users can choose to hide the “Share” button and MindMeister logo in their embedded map.
Improved Public Map Features
Our public map listings have undergone a major change in the way that they are discoverable and shareable. Now searchable by both language and category, these changes should serve to improve the usefulness of the public maps directory, as well as make it far more easy to use as a reference and resource tool.
Monthly Payment Option for Team Users
Users of our Business and Academic Editions now have the option to pay on a monthly basis, as opposed to yearly. This now means that users will only pay for the time that they need to use our service – short projects, annual reviews, etc. At the same time, should Team Users opt for a yearly subscription, we’re now offering 2 months for free.
Additional new features
Faster and more relevant map search – searching through your mind maps has now been streamlined. By default, search parameters will search through your map titles. If no matching terms are found, the MindMeister system will then search through the text of all your maps until matches are found.
Better Email Notifications – we’ve improved a number of features within the email notifications that should allow users to more easily identify what changes have been made to what maps, and by whom.
Alphabetize now with numbers – the Alphabetize function now sorts numbers correctly.
During this festive time of year, we’d also like to take this space to wish each and every one of you a very Happy Holiday Season, and we look forward to seeing you in the New Year!
The MindMeister Team
2Nov
We’ll be launching some new features and also conduct a major upgrade to our servers this weekend, starting Saturday November 7 at 10pm (UTC) until Sunday morning at about 6am (UTC). MindMeister.com will be unavailable during this period. To figure out when we are offline in your time zone please consult timeanddate.com.
Please avoid taking your maps offline with Google Gears before the downtime as we’re also upgrading MindMeister’s offline capabilities.
11Jul
We’ll be having a short scheduled downtime of our servers today Saturday July 11 at 8pm (UTC) for about one hour for a database upgrade, and www.mindmeister.com will be unavailable during this period. To figure out when we are offline in your time zone please consult timeanddate.com.
Sorry for any inconveniences.
Update: We are back after 45 minutes with a brand new database. Enjoy!
22May
There’ll be a short scheduled downtime of our servers tomorrow Saturday May 23 at 4am in the morning (UTC) for about 2-3 hours, and www.mindmeister.com will be unavailable during this period. To figure out when we are offline in your time zone please consult timeanddate.com.
Sorry for any inconveniences, hopefully you’re fast asleep (or out partying) at that time anyway!
Update: It has taken the full three hours but we’re back now!
1May
As a company headquartered in Germany and providing their product in English only you almost get used to people questioning your patriotism. Our usual response to questions regarding the availability of a German version included citing some demographic statistics of our user base (which is about 40% native English speaking). Truth is, it’s somewhat embarrassing it took us so long to launch a German version, but at least it’s here now!
At the same time our partner act2 created a Japanese version of MindMeister which also went live last weekend. Japan is great country for mind mapping as the technique is almost universally taught in schools and children get used to visually mapping out their thoughts at a very early age. Thanks to everyone at act2 for their untiring effort in getting the translation out the door in time!
More translations are on the way – next up are French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese – and if you’re interested in helping us with any additional languages please let us know. Also many thanks to those who have already offered their services, we’ll surely be coming back to you!
Finally we’d like to ask you a favor: if you’re a native speaker of German or Japanese and you find any missing or erratic translations please send us a quick feedback message using the “Found a mistake” link in the menu bar. Sometimes you need to see a word or phrase in context to make sure the translation fits the intended meaning.
22Apr
We’ll conduct another major upgrade to our servers this weekend, starting Friday April 24 from 10pm (UTC) until Saturday morning at about 6am (UTC) and www.mindmeister.com will be unavailable during this period. To figure out when we are offline in your time zone please consult timeanddate.com.
Please avoid taking your maps offline with Google Gears before the downtime as we’re also upgrading MindMeister’s offline capabilities.
Update: As of Saturday 8am (UTC) our latest database migration is still running, and we hope it will be finished soon. Please bear with us a little longer and sorry for any inconveniences caused!
Update: Saturday 9:05am (UTC) we’re back! Please check out our new features, we’ll be presenting them in a special newsletter soon. There might still be some glitches but rest assured that they’ll be ironed out soon.
25Mar
Just a quick update to let you know that we’ve deployed a new version that fixes certain UI issues in Internet Explorer 8, the latest update to the infamous Microsoft browser that was released a few days ago. Before, the map branches and connections weren’t displayed at all in IE8, icons did not work correctly and some dialogs looked downright awful.
This should all be fixed now and our growing numbers of IE8 users (which are already up to 2.3% of all Internet Explorer users, who in turn make up a third of our total visitors) can hopefully enjoy mostly bug-free mind mapping. If you do encounter any remaining issues please let us know, and even more importantly, if you’re still using Internet Explorer 6 please, please upgrade to version 8 asap. Or better still, use Firefox if you can…
23Dec
Just in time for Christmas we managed to finish our latest release, MindMeister 3.1. Phew. The major new feature in it are graphical connections between ideas – many of you asked for them, and after we could not put this feature off any longer we locked one of our JavaScript gurus in a room with just a notebook and the Encyclopedia of Bezier and B-spline Techniques, and only let him out yesterday.
He said there were many technical difficulties to overcome, so please bear with us if not everything works quite as expected yet – we’re working on it!
We also added a few other new features in this release, please see details below or check out the list in the obligatory What’s New in MindMeister 3 mind map.
   
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12Aug
We currently seem to be experiencing some issues with our provider, resulting in proxy errors for our users. We are in contact with the technical staff and hope to have solved the issues soon – please bear with us!
Update: We’ve done some work and hope to have stabilized the situation – the servers should be running fine again, please drop us a comment should you experience any further issues!
21May
We’ll be having a short downtime on MindMeister on Sunday, May 25, 8am GMT for about two hours. We’ve scheduled so that hopefully very few people are affected. Please try and export any maps you might need during this time in advance. Thanks for your understanding!
Update: We are back with some updates.
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