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📚 Freebie Freitag: Zurück zur Schule MindMeister Edition!
Hallihallo, liebe MindMeister Community! Wir freuen uns, eine brandneue Aktion vorzustellen: Freebie Freitag! 🎉 Bei Meister glauben wir daran, unsere unglaubliche Community von Lehrer:innen, Schüler:innen und Profis zu unterstützen. Deshalb werden wir hin und wieder einige Angebote für euch haben, die euer Arbeiten, Lernen…
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📚 Freebie Friday Alert: Back to School MindMeister Edition!
Hi 👋 MindMeister Community! We're excited to introduce a brand new initiative: Freebie Friday! 🎉 At Meister, we believe in supporting our incredible community of educators, students, and professionals. That's why every once in a while, we're going to treat you to some fantastic freebies that are sure to make your work and…
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🤝 Partner Feature: Q&A with Tatiana Torres [Virtual Education]
Hello and welcome to this Partner Feature Q&A! In this series, we'll give you an insight into our partners: The experts who advocate for Meister tools and use their know-how to help their clients succeed. You'll discover how partners use our products to overcome a variety of challenges, and you'll find new inspiration from…
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Using MindMeister with ChatGPT
If you've spent any time on the internet the last few months, you know that everyone's talking about ChatGPT, the groundbreaking AI chatbot and language model from OpenAI. Personally, I've been super fascinated with the tool ever since it launched at the end of November last year, especially its ability to so quickly…
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⭐️ Get Started with Mind Mapping (Best Practices)!
Hi Community! In the United States, the summer marks the end of the previous year’s Supreme Court term, and lots of court decisions are announced. These decisions can be extremely lengthy and complex. As a retired judge, I have no problem understanding them when I read them but remembering them and all of the case’s…
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🧠 Mapped by Meister: Global Supply Chain (Manufacturing)
Hi! Let's take a look at how manufacturers can use mind maps to oversee distribution from production to delivery 🚚. Logistics-loving @Nick Willemsens created this mind map template to show team leads how MindMeister can be implemented for supervising complex operations 🤯. Though it's normally assumed to be an ideation💡…
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🤩 Template of the Month: Project Plan
Hey! Excited to start a new project? Don’t forget to plan! It’s significantly easier to visualize your roadmap when you use our Project Plan template. By filling in the template before facing the first steps of your project, you'll save time 🕚, money💰 and resources 📈. Plus, you don’t even have to worry about how to…
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🧠 Mapped by Meister: Exam Preparation (Education)
Good morning, mind mappers! Although summer is in sight, the students among us are still revising and preparing for final exams. Whether you're finishing school, your bachelor's or your master's, all you need is one final push - Here's a mind map to help you get there. How to Use This Mind Map We don't believe in…
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🏆 Best Practice: Share mind maps with collapsed / expanded topics (even public)
Today I'd like to show you how to share mind maps (even public) with predefined collapsed or expanded topics. Let's go: Think about, how your audience should see the map, when it gets the share-link Let's say, you want the actually expanded topics to be seen collapsed Press and hold CTRL (Windows) or CMD (iOS) + A to…
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How to completely rearrange topics with (often desired) impact on the outline mode!
Quick tip: If you want to completely rearrange topics, you can hold the key's STRG/cmd + A deselect the main topic by clicking on it once and then choose detach topic's in the opening menu Now the topics are detached This way you can rearrange all topics and assign them to the main topic in a different order This…
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🧠 Mapped by Meister: Vroom-Yetton Decision Model
Good morning! Did you know your amazing mind makes 35,000 decisions a day? Impressive, right? Of course, not all of these decisions have big consequences... your business probably won't suffer because you chose to drink your coffee without milk this morning. However, depending on your role, you might also be making bigger,…
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🏫 The Polish Academy of Mind Maps: Q&A with Beata Mertyn
Hello and welcome to the May edition of our Q&A series! In this series, we'll share real-life examples of how people use Meister products in a variety of industries - You'll find inspiration, tips and creative new ways to use our tools. Today, we’re speaking with the Ambassador of the Polish Academy of Mind Maps, @Beata…
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🧠 Mind Map of the Month: Consultative Selling
Hello 👋 I wanted to share a use of MindMeister I’ve found to be very helpful with a thing I struggled in the past, which is the act of selling something. Actually, this post is about a way of selling that I've learned to love and enjoy over time: Consultative Selling. Consultative selling is a sales technique that involves…
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🧠 Mapped by Meister: Hiring Org Chart (HR)
Hey everybody! So far, we've looked at knowledge-sharing, event-planning and product-distributing mind map templates. Today, we're going to dive into Human Resources - a department thus far untouched. Read on to learn about how MindMeister can be used to create comprehensive hiring org charts. Our very own organizational…
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💝 Inspo: Mind Mapping My Way to a Life I Love - John Diggs [Tedx Talk]
Good morning, Community! Recently, @Eva Schindler shared this Tedx Talk on the power of mind mapping with me, and I wanted to share it with you here. Former professional football player turned businessman John Diggs used mind mapping to turn his life around after finding himself career-less, wife-less, family-less and…
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🎓 What the heck is a strategy? (Academy News: Free online course)
Hi everyone 👋, Do you know what a strategy is? How to come up with one? And how mind mapping can easily help you? If the answer is “no”, “nope”, “no idea”—well, you are not alone. So what the heck is a Strategy? Strategy = What my desired outcomes are and how I'm going to get there And what about Strategic Planning?…
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🛰️ Mind Map of the Month: Presenting your Competences From Every Angle 💡
Hey Community! There are many mind maps available related to how you can create/ what you should include in your CV, but most of them follows the traditional view on your qualifications (the 4 colored topics). With the intention of both recommending the Mind map technique and the MindMeister product, I prepared a…
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🧠 Mapped by Meister: Quarterly Goals [Business]
Good afternoon, master minds 👋! Today, I'm going to share an insight into how we at Meister use MindMeister to plan our quarterly goals. 💡 Recognize this template? It's from @Nick Willemsens' webinar on quarterly goals! Watch it on demand here. 💡 This is the first of a four-part series in which we will explore how each of…
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⚖️ MindMeister for Law: Rich Vitaris [Use Case Q&A]
Hello and welcome to our first Use Case Q&A! Here we will share real life examples of how people use Meister products in a variety of industries. In these posts, you'll find inspiration, tips and creative new ways to use our tools. Today, we’re speaking with power user @Richard Vitaris about how MindMeister can be used by…
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🤓 MeisterHack: Add Depth to your Map with a Color Legend
Hey Community 👋, One of my favorite things about MindMeister is how much detail you can add. With notes, connections, comments, attachments, there's a wealth of information you can present within a single mind map. Recently, I came across a way of adding even more detail: Check out the image below for an example from @Olaf…
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Mind Map of the Month: Theft of Government Property Template (Law) Richard W. Vitaris
If you have an important meeting where you need to speak, respond to questions, and keep track of the points you want to make, a Mind Map can really help. This template is one I developed for use by trial lawyers, but anybody who needs to speak at any type of public meeting can make good use of it by making a few easy…
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🤓 MeisterHacks: Use "Show as Boundary" to Distinguish Between Different Points
Hey, Mind maps can become overwhelming when you have ideas scattered all over the place. To bring some structural organization to your ideas, try to: Check out the picture below to show how @Olaf Roeb has used this feature in his brilliant shortcuts mind map: You can see that the Learning Process on the right is a…
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🧠 Mapped by Meister: Team Building Events [Business]
Hi everybody, nice to meet you all! I'm Patricia, a Financial Analyst at Meister and an organizer of our team events 👨👩👧👦. I wanted to reach out to the Community and share a mind map I recently made to brainstorm ideas for our next team event! Team events aren't just a reward for hard work, they're important for…
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New: Embed a Mind Map the Community
Hi all! 👋 I wanted to quickly let our community know about a new feature available in these forums: you can now embed any public mind map in a post! Check out my meeting minutes template below: How to embed a map in a community post: Publish your map and retrieve its embed code. Create a post or comment in these forums.…
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How Felix Schoeller Slashed Meetings by 50% with MindMeister + MeisterTask (Success Story)
In manufacturing, efficiency is key. From the boardroom to the shop floor, processes can be complex and time-consuming. That’s why every chance to improve them should be welcomed. Digitalization is increasing efficiency and transparency for companies who produce great products – tools like MindMeister and MeisterTask save…
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MindMeister Template - Annual Planner
Hi together I made myself a yearly planner last December for some of my larger projects. Put a picture of it here. Thought you might be interested.😉 I tried to keep the plan as simple as possible. My basis is based on construction work, e.g. conversions of apartments/offices or also new buildings. The annual plan is for me…
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🤓 MeisterHacks: Turn Ideas into Action
Hey! Mind maps are so brilliant because of their versatility - you can use them to jot down scattered thoughts, find new ideas, organize your days and plan your projects. With MindMeister, you can take these processes to the next level without ever leaving the mind mapping tool. Simply click the ellipsis (...) on any topic…
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Mind Mapping for Neurodiverse Students
Hi all! I wanted to quickly share this post from Aventido exploring how neurodiverse students can use MindMeister for academic essay planning. It's a topic that's not only becoming more and more relevant for educators, but also an area that's very near and dear to our hearts at Meister: Improving our tools' accessibility…
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🤩 Template of the Month: Decision Matrix
Hey! Sometimes even people at the top struggle to make decisions, especially when there are a lot of criteria to factor in. But not to worry, our Decision Matrix template can help you make the right decision, fast. All you have to do is: Define the categories relevant to your decision (for example, cost, quality, etc.).…
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🤓 MeisterHacks: creating a mindmap while watching a YouTube video in MindMeister
You can embed a Youtube video in the center of the map and then note useful information around it as you listen. You can check out an example here:
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🤓 MeisterHacks: Making Presentation Notes with a Bulleted Outline
Making a mind map can help you get your thoughts in order when preparing for a presentation or speech. However, some users find it's not that easy to read from a mind map during a presentation. Outline mode lets you turn your visual mind map into linear form, making it ideal for presenting. Do you already use outline mode?…
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🧠 Mapped by Meister: Weekly Plan (Education)
Hey! In line with our monthly theme of goals and planning, I wanted to share @Line Møller Jensen's template for a weekly university plan. At the beginning of the academic year, students should personalize the template with their weekly classes. Students should take the time to update the template, input any changes and…
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🤩 Template: Master's Thesis
A couple days ago I was able to give a speech in front of 3 PhD professors to get my masters degree in virtual education. Basically I needed to explain my final thesis in front of them, I decided to use MindMeister as it's not only better for me to use but also was different. as you can see on my screenshoot I was able to…
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👨👩👧👦 Community Mind Map: Share your Holiday Recipes!
Welcome to our first collaborative mind map 🥳. Good food plays such a central role in the holiday season - That's why we thought this was a fantastic opportunity to try our first collaborative Community mind map. What better way to spread the Christmas cheer than by inspiring others with your wonderful recipes for turkey,…