22Apr
We appreciate the new release has been a long time in the making - but it’s here now! Last week we’ve deployed a new version of our online mind mapping tool, which we’ve boastingly dubbed MindMeister 2.0.
Our users often tell us that they like MindMeister because of its intuitive interface and overall simplicity. That’s why we try to add only the most necessary features in new releases - and still, this time it turned out to be quite a long list 
Oh, and don’t fret if you can’t find your pet feature below, in spite of all the talk about simplicity some more updates are coming soon!
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- Task information on ideasAs a first step to lightweight project management in MindMeister you can now add task information - priority, completion, due date and owner - to ideas. More to come!
- Attachments on ideasYou can now upload file attachments to ideas and preview images through inline thumbnails. This feature is for Premium users only, but everybody can try it out for 30 days.
- WunderLink and WunderNoteTry out these new functions to magically add links and notes to your ideas, using the wonders of the web. WunderLink gets its link from a little Yahoo! search performed in the background, while WunderNote uses a FreeBase database lookup.
- Automatic text wrapsIdea captions will now automatically wrap at a certain length to avoid overlong nodes (you can keep the old behaviour by adding manual line breaks with Shift-RETURN)
- More Geistesblitz featuresIn our constant quest to improve the Geistesblitz tools we have now added email support and a Geistesblitz Activity for Internet Explorer 8. With email support, you can send single Geistesblitzes or while mind maps just through an email.
- Subsharing for mapsNew option to allow collaborators to invite others when sharing a map - this will also work for already shared maps
- Print and exportNew option to center map on printout, PDF export of mind map now includes notes
- Formatting and navigationApply text styles selectively to child ideas, nicer formatting of first level branches, ability to expand and collapse levels
- Notes and linksAdvanced and larger note editor with more formatting options, new links widget in sidebar, “Show popular links” for idea
- OpenID and Paypal supportSupport for signup and login through OpenIDs and Paypal support when upgrading to commercial licenses.
- Other enhancementsNicer invitation and sharing emails, new user options, improved support for Safari and Opera, performance improvements through better script and image loading.
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14Nov
We’ve so far only talked about the new Offline feature with Google Gears that we launched with the latest release. And while most of the energy went into that, we also added some other new features and enhancements. Here’s a short list:
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- Passwords for public maps
You can now set passwords for public maps for secure linking and embedding and to hide them from the public maps list
- Blog embedding for everybody
Now you don’t need to be Premium user anymore to embed maps into websites or blogs
- Embed API
A new embed API allows you to seamlessly integrate our map editor in virtually any other web application
- Improved performance
Vastly reduced the number of requests when loading a map by combining icons and other tuning measures
- Reseller Scheme
If you’re interested in reselling MindMeister to other users just sign up for an account here and get 20% on every license sold!
- Other enhancements
Easy enable notifications when first sharing a map - tag auto completion - reworked publish dialog with easy copy buttons - view invoices and export as PDF - and many more…
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Right now we’re working on a few fixes to some editing problems that some people have been having, as well as on a number of new features. They are things that have been requested frequently and that we think we need to complete our mind mapping offering, such as attachments and images, connections between nodes, possibly some project management things (e.g. task info) as well as Geistesblitz enhancements.
