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Available Courses
Mind Mapping 101
Mind Mapping 101
Everything you need to know about working with mind maps in one comprehensive course, with lots of practical examples!
MindMeister - Getting Started
Tutorials for all major MindMeister features: Learn how to create, style, share, publish and present your online mind maps!
Best Practices
A collection of tips and best practices for advanced mappers, including how to manage groups, brand your maps and more.
Business Productivity
Mind map expert Liam Hughes teaches how to use mind maps at work to improve business productivity.
See all Our Tutorial Videos
We've prepared a number of short tutorial videos to help you get to know MindMeister's awesome features in no time.
Mapa Mental: O Melhor Modo de Planejar e Gerenciar
MindMeister Expert Arnaldo Mefano teaches how to use mind maps (in Portuguese).
Lesson Planning with Mind Maps
From creating lessons to organizing your unit plans, learn what is possible with mind maps.
Mind Mapping for Marketers
Meister’s own Raphaela Brandner explains how her team plans content, manages knowledge, and turns ideas into fully-fledged strategies.
3 Applications of Mind Mapping for Leadership
Hilary Grosskopf shares her methodical yet creative approach to mind mapping for key leadership applications.
Mind Mapping for the Legal Profession
Administrative judge Richard Vitaris shows how to use mind maps to analyze legal issues, prepare for litigation and more.
Collaboration and Knowledge Mapping
Manel Heredero shares perspectives on the use of mind mapping to leverage and retain organisational knowledge.
Knowledge Mapping in a Networked Organisation
Manel Heredero shows how to build a dynamic and comprehensive knowledge management approach with mind maps.
Customer Profiling with Mind Maps
Liam Hughes shows how mind maps can help businesses to better consider and cater for different customer segments.
How Mind Mapping Can Assist in Design Thinking
Dr. Marco Ossani demonstrates how mind mapping can assist in the critical thinking required for Design Thinking.
Use Cases
Meeting Management
How to prepare a meeting agenda, take efficient meeting minutes, and ensure that all your meetings have actionable outcomes.
Project Planning
Set your projects up for success by creating collaborative project plans, perform visual benefit-cost analyses and more.
Academic Papers
Here's how mind maps can help you get an overview of your sources, outline your arguments, and write an A+ paper in no time.
Knowledge Management
Learn how to create knowledge maps that preserve your company's knowledge and make it easily accessible to key people.
Campaign Management
Learn how to create a marketing campaign plan, get creative with your team, and manage your campaign from start to finish.
Problem Solving
This is a step-by-step guide for entrepreneurs that shows how to solve complex problems more efficiently.
Client Presentations
Create presentations that are both engaging and easy to comprehend for your clients - here are 3 simple strategies.
Classroom Presentation
MindMeister is the simplest and fastest way to create stunning presentations for the classroom. Here's our complete guide!
Event Planning
Whether press event or Xmas party - mind maps offer the overview you need to ensure nothing is forgotten during your big event!
Learning a 2nd Language
Here's a simple technique that will help you memorize vocabulary and grammar rules more easily, including sample maps!
Online Brainstorming
A step-by-step guide to help you brainstorm more efficiently with friends and colleagues, including sample maps.
Note Taking
Taking effective notes is an invaluable skill, be it in a meeting, a lecture or during a TED talk. Here's how to do it.
Note Taking in Class
Find out how to take more effective notes that are easy to review, update and memorize. (With many sample maps!)
Blogging
The complete step-by-step guide to writing high-value, long-form articles using MindMeister and your e-Book reader.
Strategic Planning
SWOT, AEIOU, the 4 P's and more. In this guide we'll show you how to use mind maps for all your strategic business planning needs.
Skill Trees
Learn how to build the best skill trees to raise your self-awareness, channel your focus, and guide your learning.
Group Projects
Share maps with your classmates to collaborate with them on group projects, both inside and outside of the classroom!
Writing
Being able to tell a great story is an invaluable skill. Here's how mind mapping can help you craft better stories.
Getting Organized
Learn how to organize all of your study notes with MindMeister and create a system that's easy to search, review and update.
Product Management
Find out how LiveBy uses MindMeister and MeisterTask for efficient product management from design to implementation.
Teaching Mind Mapping
Learn how to use and teach mind mapping in the classroom. (Includes sample exercises!)
Recruitment & HR
Learn how to use mind maps for applicant tracking, the onboarding process, internal sourcing and much more!
Mind Mapping a TED Talk
Live mind mapping provides a simple, visual and sharable format to present key ideas and quotes from TED talks.