MindMeister continues to make frequent improvements to its web-based mind mapping application. Earlier this week, its developer announced these new features:

• Links on ideas – Support for links to other maps and external links (web pages, e-mail addresses).
• Automatic layout – which prevents ideas from overlapping each other.
• Note and link previews – Hover over a note or link icon to see a preview of its contents.
• Organic link lines – Links in Mindmeister now have  a bit of curvature to them, to provide more organic looking visual maps.
• Automatic canvas resizing – When you’re adding a lot of ideas to your map, the map canvas will automatically grow larger to accommodate them.
• Slider to view changes by date – This is a neat filtering feature: the ability to constrain which items are shown in your map based on a time period.
• Create maps based on an idea – Essentially, you can create a sub-map from a topic in your current map. Nice!
• Export as PDF.
• A new team edition – Which allows teams from 10 to 500 users to collaborate on ideas and projects.

One of the most exciting new additions to this full-featured, web-based tool is the announcement of a MindMeister API – an open programming interface that will enable developers to write applications that can interact with MindMeister. This is a first for any web-based tool, and should lead to some powerful integrations and new applications that will expand MindMeister in exciting new directions!

Finally, the application’s developers have launched a new blog, which will make it easier to keep up with the latest changes to MindMeister.

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