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Collaborate on Mind Maps in Real Time

Mindmup’s real-time collaboration lets you work on the same mind map with others, with everyone’s changes instantly synchronized. Whether you’re brainstorming with your team, planning a project, or working together in a classroom, everyone can...

Member Roles and Permissions Explained

Each Mindmup account can include multiple members, depending on your plan. For example, if your Team plan includes 5 seats, you can add up to 5 members. Every member has their own login, profile, and personal settings. Account Roles Each account...

Changing Your Password

Overview You can change your Mindmup account password from your profile settings. You will need to enter your current password and your new password before saving the change. Change your password Your new password must meet these requirements: Click...

How to Open and Manage Maps

Overview Your maps are stored and organized from the Mindmup Home page. From there, you can open maps, find recently edited work, manage shared maps, organize content into teams, and perform actions such as renaming, duplicating, moving, sharing,...

How to Create a New Mind Map

Overview Creating a new mind map is the first step to organizing your ideas in Mindmup. Whether you're brainstorming, planning a project, taking notes, or mapping out an argument, you can start with a blank map and customize it to fit your needs...

How to Use Keyboard Shortcuts

Overview Keyboard shortcuts help you work faster in Mindmup by letting you create, edit, select, format, and navigate your map without relying on menus. You can use shortcuts for everyday tasks such as adding nodes, moving around a map, selecting...

Starter Plan Editable Map Limit is Changing

Starting October 6, the Mindmup Starter plan will include up to 3 editable maps , instead of the current limit of 5. This change applies to Starter accounts only. Personal, Team, and Organization plans continue to include unlimited editable maps...

Project Planning in Mindmup

Overview Mindmup can help you turn a project into a visual plan. Start with the project goal, break it into areas and tasks, organize the structure, add supporting information, and connect related tasks. A practical workflow is: Start with the goal...

Brainstorming with Mindmup

Overview Mindmup gives you a flexible space to capture ideas as they come to you, expand on them, and organize them into a clearer structure. A typical brainstorming workflow is: Start with a central idea → capture ideas quickly → expand related...

Editor Overview

Overview The Mindmup editor is where you build and work on your maps. A map is made up of nodes that you can add, edit, move, connect, and style. You can also add notes, images, files, links, and other supporting information. The editor provides...

Dashboard Overview

Overview The Mindmup Home dashboard is where you can create, find, and organize your maps. From the dashboard, you can view your maps, access maps shared with you, manage teams, find starred maps, and open the trash. The dashboard also gives you...

Getting Started with Mindmup

Overview Mindmup helps you organize ideas and information visually. You can create maps, connect related ideas, add notes and images, organize large maps, customize their appearance, and share your work with others. This guide walks you through the...

How to Fold and Unfold Topics

Overview Folding topics helps you simplify a large map by temporarily hiding parts you do not need to see. You can unfold them again whenever you want to bring the details back into view. Mindmup lets you fold or unfold a branch, work one level at a...