Welcome fellow MindMeisters (and non-meisters)! This is our inaugural post in a coming series of tips and tricks that highlight some of the ‘little known’ functions in MindMeister. We’ll start with something simple but important – adding links. Stay tuned for future MeisterTips!
Whether you’re a CEO conducting a SWOT analysis of your competition and want to link to their website, a student or professor using internal links to further explain a topic, or an individual user including links to point viewers to additional mind maps you’ve created; using links is a great way to enrich your mind map and include data.
There are two unique ways to add links to your mind map: either manually, or using our WunderLink feature to automatically insert the most relevant topic link from Google.
1. Manually Entering Links
The option to add links can be found under the Extras panel in the sidebar. The default linking option is set to URL. You can either manually type the web address into this field or paste the address from a separate browser window. Clicking anywhere else on your mind map will associate this link to your node.
Chances are, you’ve already found the best link possible for your idea, but why not let the power of the internet double check for you? By clicking on Advanced, you’ll be presented with a dialog box that will automatically search for the most relevant links to your topic. If you find a link that better suits your topic, simply click on it, and then click OK. This will automatically insert the link to your selected node.
1.1 Internal Linking
Similar to adding URL links, you can also link to topics within your current mind map or any other of your MindMeister mind maps. Simply switch to the Topics tab in the Advanced dialog and select the map and topic you want to link to.
1.2 Email Links
Last but not least, you can also add email links to any selected . To do this, just switch to the Email Address tab and enter the address. You can also enter multiple addresses separated by commas.
2. Using WunderLink
The second method of adding links to your topics is by letting the power of the internet do the heavy lifting for you. Our WunderLink feature can be accessed by clicking on the magic wand icon in the link widget.
Every time you click on the wand, WunderLink will automatically suggest a new link for your topic. Just keep clicking until you’ve found the perfect one for your needs.
By adding links to your mind map nodes you can exponentially add value and content, and thereby comprehension to your end user or collaborative team. Whether you choose to enter them manually or use our WunderLink feature, adding links can breathe new levels of understanding and interactivity into your mind map.
Last updated: 14th March 2017
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nice tutorial but if you can please remove the music I can better concentrate and will look like any other educational clip like what we see in net.g or Lenda, … etc, Educational clips with background music are closer to an advertisement than to and tutorial.
Hi Mutawa. Good point. Since this video is already up and in circulation, I\’ll leave it as it is. Point duly noted though, and in future tutorials I\’ll leave the music out. Thanks for the comment!
I like what you are doing with mind mapping, an ability to create folders for mind maps would be great because if you have lots of mmps you can have pages of them to go through to find the one you need.
Thanks
Greg
Thanks for the comment Greg.
While I can neither confirm nor deny that folder options are in the works, I can say…….stay tuned! 🙂
It is not clear how to send an email to a link.
Hi Tony! It\’s actually not possible to send an email to a link. However, you can send a link TO an email. To do this, under the links panel option, select \’Advanced\’. A new dialogue box will open with three options at the top, \’URL\’, \’Topic\’, and \’Email Address\’. Enter the email address you\’d like to link to in the text field. Clicking \’OK\’ will then associate a mailto: link with your selected node.
I love mindmeister and being able to save attachments to nodes is great. I actually like the pink and blue\’ness but, I use the maps at work and people always think I\’m doing something non work related when I have my maps open. I get comments like \’taking a break to surf are we?, on your lunch?\’. They seems to associate the colours with me not doing work. I know this is weird but if only I could choose some more sober colours I could far more easily use mmeister at work, hey, I would even use it to present my projects in meetings. If I could choose the style of the way the map links, maybe making it more angular and businesslike that would be great too but, colour options for a start would be marvellous!
Is there a way to hyperlink to network paths? It keeps trying to convert the link to http. Thanks!
Hi Chris, unfortunately there is no way to turn this off at the moment, although we’re happy to forward your message as a feature request to the team. In the meantime, I’m afraid the only solution is probably to paste the link into the notes widget, where it won’t be modified in any way. It’s not ideal, but at least the link will be available in the topic
Thank you
Is there a way to delete “opinions” other than replacing the idea completely? I was using it incorrectly and would like to delete while retaining the author history of the original idea.