If there’s one thing most people in today’s business world can agree on, it’s that achieving inbox zero every day is almost impossible. Unfortunately for most of us, the good old CMD+A and DELETE isn’t an option, because some of those emails […]
Read article "Introducing the All-new and Optimized Outlook Add-in for MeisterTask"
For the first time ever, Atlassian Summit is coming to Europe! We’re excited to say that the MindMeister team will be at Summit Europe this May. You can join us there with our exclusive 20% discount for MindMeister users 🙂 Summit Europe […]
You may have heard about the Cloudflare bug, dubbed Cloudbleed, which has potentially affected the security of websites supported by Cloudflare Proxy services. The bug was discovered by Google’s security vulnerability detecting team last Friday and has been described in detail on […]
Need to stop checking emails and start getting work done? With the turn emails into tasks feature, you can create and forward tasks from your email account to your MeisterTask project board, in the relevant section, quickly and easily. According to Inc. […]
It’s our birthday and we want you to celebrate it with us! To mark MindMeister turning 10, we’re partnering with WeAreDevelopers to give away 10 free pairs of conference tickets to MindMeister users. WeAreDevelopers is Europe’s leading developer conference and this year it’s […]
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Beautiful, fast, intuitive: MeisterTask’s brand-new native Android app just hit the Google Play Store. The mobile app is the perfect companion to MeisterTask’s web app, enabling you to efficiently manage tasks from anywhere even when you’re offline! MeisterTask for Android is free – get it now! Read article “MeisterTask’s Beautiful Native Android App Is Here!”
Zapier is a platform that enables you to connect more than 750 business apps across 50-plus categories, and create automated workflows between them. Since March of this year MeisterTask is one of these apps and in the 9 months since the launch of our integration, a huge number of people have used it to create their own, personalized automations and make their lives a little easier. Read article “MeisterTask Listed as One of the Fastest Growing Web Apps by Zapier!”
Updated: 26 January 2017
Today we’re thrilled to introduce a completely new area for MeisterTask Pro teams: Statistics and Reports is where you can get insights into how productive your team is, which tasks are taking the longest, how much time employees are spending on tasks, and a lot more. This update also includes the simple but elegant first version of MeisterTask’s calendar view, which so many of you have been waiting for! Read article “Introducing Statistics and Reports for MeisterTask”
In case you missed it, Zapier is a platform that lets you connect your favorite web apps to create automated workflows between them without any programming skills. It’s a great way to connect MeisterTask with calendars, time tracking tools, productivity apps, and even social media networks. Read article “A New Trigger for MeisterTask on Zapier”
Update 25th January 2018: We’re proud to announce that MeisterTask is now available as tab in Microsoft Teams! Head on over to our launch announcement to find out more about how to install the tab and get productive with your team! In […]
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Exporting your mind maps to PDF is a great way to transfer all of their content, including notes and links, into a format that is compact and can be opened and read by virtually anyone. Our popular mind map PDF export just got an overhaul which we think you will really enjoy. Here’s an overview of what’s new: Read article “New & Improved: Exporting Mind Maps to PDF”
Toggl is a widely used time tracking tool that offers apps for all major operating systems, an intuitive, one-click time tracker, and detailed reports of your billable hours and team progress. Thanks to a recent update to its Chrome extension (called Toggl Button), Toggl now seamlessly integrates with MeisterTask’s web app, allowing you to track time in Toggl without ever leaving your task manager. Read article “Time Tracking and Pomodoro in MeisterTask Using the Toggl Button”
Setting a specific due time for your tasks is a great way to indicate when tasks are – yep, you guessed it – due. Seriously, we don’t think we need to explain to you what this feature does. Many of you have asked for it, specifically those who also create tasks for meetings, appointments, and such delicate things as press releases and scheduled product maintenances. Read article “Introducing Due Times for MeisterTask!”
MeisterTask’s popular iOS app just got even better: We’ve added an additional language, a new widget, and a couple of handy features from the web app to ensure you can efficiently manage all your tasks with just one thumb (…or index finger, if you’re on iPad) 😉 Read article “MeisterTask 2.3 for iOS Is Out!”
Customizing the theme of your mind map is simple, fun, and doesn’t take a lot of time. Using the Customize Map Theme dialog you can easily change the colors and shapes used for topics and lines, ensuring that your map is unique, memorable and beautiful. Read article “New: Import Mind Map Themes from Other Maps”
The new Zapier Chrome Extension (called “Push“) is a button that lives in your Chrome bar and lets you create new MeisterTask tasks from anywhere on the web. There’s no need to open the MeisterTask app itself—as soon as you’ve entered the name of your task in Push and clicked send, it will instantly be added to the project and section of your choice. Read article “New: Create Tasks with Zapier’s Chrome Extension “Push””
Our recent update to the MindMeister editor has made sharing mind maps with your social media networks even easier. The new quick share options include share buttons for Facebook, Google+, Biggerplate, and of course Twitter. Read article “Sharing Mind Maps on Twitter Just Got Awesome”
The dog days are finally over here in Vienna and our team has started the fall season with a bunch of cool updates for MeisterTask’s web app and iOS app. September brings improvements to our search functionality, the Slack integration as well as our project sections. Read article “September Update: Quick Switcher, Slack Buttons, iOS Version 2.2 and More!”
It’s been more than 2.5 year since our last major redesign – practically aeons in internet time. However, there’s no reason to fix what isn’t broken, so our latest update doesn’t bring any huge changes or new features but simply adjusts, improves and smooths out what was already there. Welcome to the new MindMeister experience, we hope you enjoy it! Read article “The New MindMeister Experience”
MindMeister’s Wunder features enable you to automatically add related links (WunderLink), notes (WunderNote), images (WunderBild), or even child topics (WunderKind™) to the topics in your mind maps. Read article “MindMeister’s Miraculous Wunder Features”
Whether you’re about to begin a significant freelance task, or planning the logistics of a house move, being both well organized and able to intelligently manage your time is essential. When it comes to task management, this is where time tracking can […]
Read article "Time Tracking Matters: Integrate MeisterTask and TimeCamp via Zapier!"
Here at MindMeister we’re perpetually looking for ways of utilizing mind mapping to enhance collaboration. Nearly two years ago we added a new collaboration feature to MindMeister which allows users to add comments to topics on a shared mind map, and vote topics […]
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We’re very proud to announce that MeisterTask now has its own channel on IFTTT, the popular web service that helps you be more productive by automating workflows for you! IFTTT, which stands for ‘If this then that‘, offers more than 300 channels all in all—you’ll find anything from popular apps like Slack and Evernote to WiFi-enabled refrigerators and even health trackers for your dog! Read article “Create Amazing Workflows with MeisterTask Using IFTTT!”
We’re super thrilled to introduce custom backgrounds today, which means you’re now able to upload your own photos and wallpapers to MeisterTask. The best part? You can not only change the background of your dashboard, but also the look of your project boards! Read article “Introducing Custom Backgrounds for MeisterTask!”
Update January 18, 2019: This referral system has been discontinued, but don’t worry, we’re already working on a new referral program for MeisterTask! If you enjoy using MeisterTask Basic, we think you’ll LOVE the Pro version which is packed full with stuff […]
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In March we had the great opportunity to get acquainted with the newest technologies and frameworks provided by Atlassian for their add-on developers. As a new vendor, MeisterLabs was invited to Amsterdam for Connect Week in order to get started with our first add-ons and to help shape Atlassian’s EAP features for their Connect frameworks. It only took us one more month to release our first add-on, with the next ones soon to follow. Read article “Setting Up a JWT Enabled Connect Add-On Using Ruby on Rails”
This article was updated on October 8, 2021.
Starting on June 22nd 2016, our PNG and PDF export as well as the print feature will be available for users of MindMeister’s Personal, Pro, Business, and Education plans only. Read article “Announcement: PDF, PNG & Print Go Paid”
Good customer service is a vital part of almost any company’s long-term success. The experience a person has when contacting the support team can mean the difference between a happy, returning customer and a disgruntled ex-user, who may even cause lasting damage to the business by sharing their bad experience with friends and followers. Read article “Improve Customer Service with MeisterTask and Zendesk”
Section actions and bulk actions are two great ways to manage multiple tasks from a specific section at once. In our marketing department for instance we like to collect completed tasks in our Done section and at the end of the week archive […]
At MeisterLabs we use mind maps for a hundred different things, from taking meeting minutes to project planning to voting on which board games we should buy for our monthly game nights. As power mappers we also know how quickly great ideas can be forgotten if they’re buried in an unused map somewhere deep down in our folder structure. Read article “Introducing MindMeister Mind Maps for Confluence”
