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📚 Freebie Friday Alert: Back to School MeisterTask Edition!
Hi 👋 MeisterTask 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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Q&A with Christian Müller: Digital Content Creation with MeisterNote and MeisterTask
Hello, and welcome to the September edition of our Use Case 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 consultant and digital communication guru…
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🤝 Partner Feature: Q&A with Cathy Fanning (IT Training)
Hello, and welcome to August's Partner Feature! 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…
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👨💻 MeisterTask for Software Development: Q&A with Douglas Boyce
Hello and welcome to the June edition of our Use Case 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 software development whizz @Douglas Boyce about…
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Q&A with Jana Ingendahl: Making Businesses Sustainable [Consultancy]
Hello, and welcome to the July edition of our Use Case 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 @Jana Ingendahl: co-founder of a sustainability…
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MeisterHack: Bulk Task Creation (with ChatGPT!)
Hi all! 👋 Inspired by @Jörg Koper's post about using ChatGPT to format text in MT task descriptions, I wanted to highlight a very under-appreciated feature of MeisterTask which lends itself very well to ChatGPT workflows: using the text to task feature for bulk task creation! The text to task feature allows you to quickly…
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Template - How We Use MeisterTask for Trip Planning
I thought I would share how we use MeisterTask for trip planning. We create a project such as "Japan 2023" (for our last trip) and then each day is a column and we add in anything needed for that day — flight information, hotel details, tickets, etc. as individual tasks for the day. It's a great way to see your trip at a…
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🧠 Project Board Template: City Trip Planning (Tourism)
Hey! MeisterTask is made for the workplace, but it can also be used for planning your next city trip: I used MeisterTask to plan everything for my trip to Krakow including cultural places to visit, restaurants, cafes and shops to go to, and local snacks to try 😍. Structure I organized the sections in my project board into…
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Tips & Best Practices For Using MeisterTask & MeisterNote Together
Tips & Best Practices For Using MeisterTask & MeisterNote Together Do you know how to use MeisterTask and MeisterNote together? If not, you’ll love this new video. It will save you time and headaches by showing you: how to create a project plan in MeisterNote the best ways of getting your team involved in project…
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🧠 Project Board Template: Holiday Packing
Good afternoon, globe trotters! @Anna Ksiezarczyk's trip planning board was met with such enthusiasm it got me thinking about how else MeisterTask could be used by city hoppers such as yourselves 🤩. So, here's a template that'll let you take the stress out of travelling just in time for the holiday season. Structure Let's…
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☕️ MeisterTalk: How Much Is E-Mail Overload Costing You?
Hey, MeisterTask Community! All over the professional world, people are talking about the mythical "Inbox Zero...", but why should we strive for this and how can we achieve it? If you don't yet know the risks of e-mail overload, keep reading - Today, we're going to show you how to calculate the cost of time spent…
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Managing Large Teams (50+ users!)
Hey, MeisterTask Community! It's never easy to manage a lot of people, but with MeisterTask, many of these challenges are alleviated. To help you get the most out of MeisterTask as a managerial aid, we've collected expert advice on managing large teams of 50+ users. Read on to learn how to: Instantly add many users to your…
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🏡 MeisterTask for Real Estate: Samuel Schlaepfer [Use Case Q&A]
Hello and welcome to the March edition of our Use Case 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 Samuel Schlaepfer (@Rooster McNugget) about how…
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🏆 Best Practices: Time Tracking
Hey! Clicking start and stop on the timer is only the first step in getting the most out of the time tracking feature. The second step is assessing tracked time. This is where a lot of users give up, but you shouldn't. Tracking time and assessing results doesn't have to be tedious. In this article, we share how you can use…
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🧠 Project Board of the Month: IT Implementation with MeisterTask
Hey everybody and welcome to your IT Implementation with MeisterTask! Various scenarios are used in relation to an IT Implementation project: Rollouts, Upgrades, Consulting and Training. Everyone wants to keep the project on track and on budget, fulfil client expectations and demands, and run a smooth streamlined…
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💪 "Systemize your Life" with Chelsi Jo Moore [Use Case Q&A]
Hello and welcome to the April edition of our Use Case 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 CEO, podcaster and mom @Chelsi Jo Moore about how…
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🧠 Project Board of the Month: Quarterly Goals [Business]
Hey there! Last week, you might have seen our Quarterly Goals mind map template for planning strategic company goals. Today, we'll look at the step that comes after brainstorming - the step where you take real action to achieve your goals and improve operational processes and collaboration. 💡 Recognize this template? It's…
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⚙️ #SHARE - Your Best Automation
I'm always looking for ideas to improve my productivity. What is your Favorite, most Productive Automation ? I'll go first - I have a Reoccurring Task with my Morning Routine in a Checlist that I have set to run each morning Mon - Fri. This way, if I get busy, I can always return to make sure everything I need to do each…
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🤝 Partner Feature: Q&A with Jörg Koper [Consulting & Coaching]
Hello and welcome to our first Partner Feature! 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 find out how partners use our products to overcome a variety of challenges and find new inspiration from these…
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How to start Projects in MeisterTask
Hi guys 👋🙂 I often get the question how to start with projects in MeisterTask in general. Most beginners create a lot of projects instead of tasks and are losing the overview in the left sidebar. My advice for you: Think about the project itself...you maybe have a customer with lots of orders / projects for you? In this…
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A little start-up help for your first business project in MeisterTask
Today, I'd like to show you how to create your first business project in MeisterTask in just a few steps. The steps are logically based on each other and as soon as you have learned them, you will be able to do it more and more quickly. Hier geht es zum Beitrag auf Deutsch. Let's start with a first look at the template You…
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Project Template: Prospect Inquiries (Sales)
Hello. Below, you'll find a JSON file with a MeisterTask template that I built for a user looking to streamline the sales process for his team. You'll find various columns, and each column represents a stage of your inquiry, new cards with fresh inquiries start in the leftmost column, and they advance to the right along…
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🤓 MeisterHacks: Use the Move Tasks Automation to Create Accountability
Hey, Automations save you time and let you focus on more important things, but did you know they can also increase accountability and responsibility for tasks? Let's look at a specific example: Cross-departmental meetings are often big and confusing - It's easy to get lost in them and leave without clear action items…
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MeisterHack: Meister Community Automation
I love all of the discussions and collaboration going on here but if you are like me, you often forget to see what's happening in the Meister Community. I created an Automation on my main Triage Board to create a Reoccurring Task each Mon / Wed / Fri with a link to Now I can't forget, Enjoy !
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🤓 MeisterHacks: Add Tags Automatically
Hey! Here are two important, and problematic, facts for you: Every minute counts and a lot of information can be hard to process quickly. Here's the solution: You can set up automations to add certain tags to every task moved into your chosen section. For example, you might add the tag Finance to all tasks moved to the…
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Short workflow for formatting text in MeisterTask with ChatGPT
Hi guys 👋😉 inspired by the great post "using MindMeister with ChatGPT" from @Andrew Lapidus I had a spontanious idea this morning. What if we let ChatGPT format complex and time-consuming texts and link lists in MeisterTask for us? This steps took me less than 3 minutes and ChatGPT much less to progress 😅 The command,…
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💡 MeisterHacks: How To Enable Dark Mode (thanks @Eva Schindler)
Hi! There's been some requests recently to get #DarkMode available as a native feature in the Meister Suite. I want to share a great tip I got from @Eva Schindler to get this functionality when I told her how my eyes hurt after long periods working on MeisterNote's user interface. The solution pointed by Eva was a web…
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🤓 MeisterHacks: Using Checklist Templates
Checklist templates are a really exciting feature (at least I think so), but it's not always easy to know when it makes sense to use them. To help, we've broken things down into two key use cases: When do you use checklist templates? Got any tips to share? Screenshot your templates and share below - I'd love to see!
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🧠 Project Template of the Month: Global Supply Chain (Distribution Workflow: Business)
Hey! In this post, we looked at how MindMeister could be used to plan and track the distribution of goods. Here, we're going to see the full transportation flow from all four production sites to their designated end customers ➡️. @Nick Willemsens engineered his supply chain on geographical logic in order to efficiently…
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🧠 Project Template of the Month: Common Core Aligned Network (Academia/Research)
Hey! This academic project board was inspired by the EU Network of Academics 🤓. It acts as a network for academics from different universities working on trans-disciplinary research. You might remember how the different branches in @fionaburke's educational mind map linked to different sections of a MeisterTask project -…
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MeisterTask App for Linux with a simple trick
Many MeisterTask customers use Linux as a free and powerful alternative to the usual operating systems. I have often heard, that many Linux users would also like to have a MeisterTask app. This wish can be fulfilled quickly. Linux already offers the possibility to create so-called web apps. This website describes the…
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🤓 MeisterHacks: Create a Calendar in MeisterTask
Hey, In this post we talked about creating a weekly plan in Agenda, but you can also Although this leaves you with 12 sections, it gives you a strong overview of important events and campaigns throughout the year. MeisterTask is both easy to navigate and easy to edit. This means you'll always be able to quickly find what's…
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🧠 Project Template of the Month: Article Planning (Journalism)
Hey! In this post, we're taking a look at how MeisterTask can lighten the heavy load of leading a team of journalists all working on their own articles in different newspaper sections 🗞. Our very own wordsmith ✏️ @Caleb Dorfman designed this board to help team leads in journalism stay on top of different articles at…
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Project Template: Learning Languages with Spaced Repetition in an MT-Board
A) Board overview Screenshot 1: Board in the typical appearance In general terms this board has been started from a learner's perspective: In 2020 I started to intensively learn French and later also the Spanish language. The board does not cover the educator's/teacher's side. Although many years of experience as a…