MindMeister updates: navigation improvements across the board

Mark Jack
Mark Jack MeisterLobster, EN Business Posts: 9 Beginner
in MindMeister Announcements & Updates

Excited to share a bunch of updates coming to MindMeister to make organizing and recalling your maps much simpler. These updates are rolling out to all accounts in the coming weeks 👀

  • With a brand new Home area, you can now jump straight into your work—whether it’s creating a new mind map or picking up where you left off. You’ll see which maps are shared with your team, and which are private or only shared with you.
  • An updated sidebar shows your team front and center, with quick access for Team Admins to invite new members. We've also removed Recents and Public from the sidebar: Home now serves the same purpose as Recents, and you can access the MindMeister Universe from the templates gallery instead.
  • Elsewhere, one-click favoriting and cleaner bulk actions make organizing maps a breeze. Likewise, you won’t miss the search bar — it’s front and center. 
  • The eagle-eyed will notice that we’ve unsquashed the images in grid view, and, for now, we’ve removed in-app notifications. They will be back before you know it, way better than before. We’re hard at work making them more useful.

Take a quick tour of the new navigation, or read more in the Help Center. Once you’ve given these updates a try, please do drop any feedback via this quick survey.

Have a great day!

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  • Marlene Heinen
    Marlene Heinen DE Business Posts: 55 Star Contributor

    Hi,
    I have already a question :-). In Home there is a button "Blank Map" . Is that map private or team on default?
    We have here one team "Company", so nearly everything is public as soon as it is a team map. I have the feeling, already team maps are often createt by mistake.

  • Oliver Wich
    Oliver Wich MT Tester, DE Business Posts: 87 Star Contributor

    Amazing!
    Quick Question: What does thet mean?
    What would be the workflow if a user wants to keep his private maps? Put them in the Trash → leave the team and reactive them? Of Export them all → delete them und import them again in the private account?

    Would really appreciate some help because i have team members coming and leaving more often lately.

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  • Cornelia Patscheider_is_OOO
    Cornelia Patscheider_is_OOO Admin, Moderator, MeisterLobster, EN Business Posts: 1,316 Community Admin
    https://community.meister.co/discussion/comment/12423#Comment_12423


    Hi @Marlene Heinen , regarding your question "What is the default?": If you have access to private mind maps — you’re a paid MindMeister customer — all mind maps created in Home or in My maps are private by default. Only mind maps created in Team maps are Team maps.

  • Cornelia Patscheider_is_OOO
    Cornelia Patscheider_is_OOO Admin, Moderator, MeisterLobster, EN Business Posts: 1,316 Community Admin

    https://community.meister.co/discussion/comment/12424#Comment_12424


    Hi @Oliver Wich ,

    first of all, I want to assure that there are no changes when it comes to offboarding , or a team member leaving the team, just because of the new Home. You can still apply the same workflow as you used before.


    Specifically, there are three options to offboard a team member:

    • Option 1: "Disable" a users account:
      • Inactive users are completely restricted from accessing cannot access any area or content in MeisterTask or MindMeister, including their own Private Projects.
      • This option is ideal for offboarding team members.
      • Use this option when: An employee has left the company and you want to prevent them from accessing MeisterTask, MindMeister, or their Account.
      • How to: Open the "My Team" page in Account, click the three dots next to the users name, select "Disable".
    • Option 2: Disable a users access for one tool only:
      • Use this option when:
        • You want to prevent a user accessing any content in MeisterTask or/and MindMeister.
        • You want to keep their account active.
        • The user requires access to the Account area.
      • It is best used for: Team Admins who don’t need access to projects or notes.
        Temporarily limiting a user’s access without fully deactivating their account.
      • How to: Open the "My Team" page in Account. Search for the user, and click on the colorful logos to disable access.
    • Option 3: Remove” a user:
      • Use this option when:
        • The user is permanently leaving the team, but may continue using MeisterTask or MindMeister outside your team with the same email address. Removing a team member will completely separate their account from your team.
        • You want to completely remove the user from your team while preserving their access to any projects or notes they have joined.
      • It is best used for: Users who no longer need team affiliation, but want to keep access to projects and notes, e.g., a former colleague who left your company but continues working on your project as a freelancer with the same email address.
      • How to: Open the "My Team" page in Account, click the three dots next to the users name, select "Remove".

    Regarding your question: What would be the workflow if a user wants to keep his private maps?

    • If the "old" team member has been removed from the team or has created a new account, then the Content Manager of the mind map will have to invite the "old" team member to the private mind maps again.
      • Just for context: A user does not own his private mind maps. The team owns all mind maps. Therefore, if a user leaves your team, or they account is disabled, then the private mind maps will remain with the team. Here is more infos available.
    • Alternatively, your suggestions about exporting all mind maps, deleting them and importing them into the new account should work as well.

    I hope this info helps.

  • theo west
    theo west EN Basic Posts: 47 Star Contributor

    I don't know what kinds of updates you guys have been doing to the software lately, but the experience of using mindmeister is completely falling apart. Features that were previously available in the past are no longer available (selecting multiple nodes and changing the layout at the same time, a feature that I used constantly before and I want to use again as the alternative is highly time-consuming. Even though I've contacted support and the forum several times already - is still missing)

    I use mindmiester for workshops at my work and nothing is more embarrassing than watching your software fall apart in real time in front of a live audience. I've sent many emails about some of the most recent bugs that weren't previously available to support, but I've heard nothing back in terms of you guys actually fixing these issues.

    Please step up.

    Warm regards,

    a dedicated user.

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