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So guys Mero is to sort of platforms
it's a collaborative whiteboard tool that allows you to create these fantastic areas to work on little bit like
Mila notes those sorts of applications, but there is a free mind mapping tool and in today's video
We're gonna be checking that out
Let's start by giving you an overview and then let's dive into the features and Len. Let's round off who this is best recommended for
So let's start off with the overview
This application is apparently used by three million users worldwide and a range of different teams
But there is a mind mapping experience
As I said, it's free said there's no credit card in that needed required for this application
Which is pretty good and allows you to create these sort of like massive diagrams
and maybe that's you trying to plan holistically or you just trying to drop down a few ideas for a
Project than you have at work, but we're gonna check out the features of this it is free as I said
So you're not going to be incurring any cost?
Then later on maybe a few weeks from now. We'll check out Mero is a collaborative whiteboard application
So here we are folks with mero mind map now just a note what actually did was I
It went over to mirror at the top left hand corner
Which basically gives you access to all of your boards and as you can see here
You can create a blank board in free plan. You only get unto three boards, which I guess is sort of like a
You know, it's a bit weird sometimes because you think you know
my math ones gonna be totally free but
Because they have boards inside of this if I go to create a mindmap
You can see that I only have one board left so you can only have up to three
Actively created boards. So let's go and create this board anyway
now as you can see
they they give you
this sort of demo one to get things rolling and what I'm going to do for the sake of this video is just to delete
that and
All I did there was just press delete and you can see here that if we use my two fingers I could scroll around
The mindmap now the best way to create mindmaps
You can actually create them from scratch on your own but is to go over to the left-hand panel and press
templates if I go over to the mind map
Template I can choose from a range of them and you can see that there's bottle business model canvas here the product roadmap
There's even like for example, you can actually create your own custom templates, but you can see here. There's some brainstorming and ideation ones
So if you have a specific like the journey map like with your team, maybe we'll show some of these at the end
For example, these are good with Atlassian based products. Then you can use that and use a stories customer journey, etc
But just for the sake of this video, let's use a basic mind map now
You can even add it with a field example so you can get going but in this case with let's go with a blank one
So as you can see here
This is the mind map and you can use your two fingers to scroll
Around if you've got a Mac or trackpad and you can zoom out as well
And that's the I believe you can sort of that sort of the size of the canvas just to give you an idea
So it does give you plenty of wiggle room, especially if you went and created them quite small
Across your board and the great thing is you can use a search up here to specifically find something
There's even filtering based on the Fred's if you follow and objects that you've snapped as well
So let's go ahead and delete this left-hand side because we're gonna come head and create a company map
So let's zoom in a little so lets me create a company map for keep productive. So what do we cover?
Let's delete some of these
Now the best way to start this is if you press tab
Tab basically creates a new branch of your mind map
So in key productive within YouTube, so if I press ENTER a new branch is created
Which is very cool so I can also add courses because that's something else that we do and also let's say articles as well
So the other thing you can do is constantly press tab and it will just recreate a new element so if I would say
Blog articles I can enter a new element there
Now one thing I can do is if your is part of a team
What it can do is they can go and leave a comment
There are plenty of options here and we'll come back to that in a moment
But I can leave a comment
That can be dragged over the top of something in this case
If I wanted to let Alice know you could add mention her if you had her in and available inside the mirrow workspace
But in this case, I might say and the themes for the blog here Alice many. Thanks
and you
Can even add emoji if you want there?
so if I press ENTER you can see that the comment appears here and it can even add a different color to that comment and
Move it around as well
so she will get a notification up in the top right hand corner and
It will appear in her unread earlier and you can even see all updates here if you want to it
Sounds really handy actually having some sort of
Communication with your team as you go, but that's not where it ends
For example, you can add a whole host of abilities
for example
sticky notes sticky notes are a handy way for you and your team to keep updated and
for some people on their own you may just want sticky notes to read what you would see on map a
Mac computer or even a Windows computer leaving little note for yourself things like that
But it's also handy for teams if you're looking to get you know key information
For example, it could be the login email that you use. Maybe not the password
But it might be information such as that. So in this case, I might say
login is
account
squarespace.com and
That could be helpful for the team to have so if I make it a little bit smaller
I can even reduce the size of the text I believe so, there we go
It can be a little bit more in line
But you can even add little runs off this and if I wanted to go back to this I can add
Either side and so that's really preset
but the one thing I can do is if I wanted to I could go ahead and create a new shape and
I could make my own my map if I was someone who was a bit more custom so I could say
You know company for example
And I could use the branches here to create a new mind map and you can create all types of
Abilities. So for example, you could weave
The sticky note into there and at any one point you can change the elements into these
Variety elements like this one is a card. This one's a comment and you can even make it sort of memo like there
So that's one of the benefits of utilizing
That the custom builds but what's good is if you wanted to utilize the space, for example
You wanted to add a Kanban framework?
which might help you and your team to organize a certain project coming up you can have it in the same environment as
Your mind map and that's quite helpful
Particularly for people who want to have lots of different things all in one area
So if I go and zoom into this you can see that in this case
I can actually utilize this like it would a Kanban this is more for sprints for teams
But as you can see, it works in the same fashion, and I could just add a new card and find the details
So let's just test something here. So let's say in progress is this Miro review?
now if I go up to the top right-hand corner and press Mero
You can see there that the card is automatically detected and it will zoom into this particular particular thing
And whenever you're inside of a new card in a Kanban
You can also set a date and that's when every single card you career inside of Mero
So in this case, I might want to say actually we're gonna post this one Saturday
I can assign it to a person and it can even give it a tag as well very much like you would with
Pretty much Trello or any other application?
But as you can imagine it's much more visual and a little more basic to some extent
So what else I can do on this?
Left-hand panel is I've already been able to add a text shapes anything else like that
but what's cool is there's this pen feature now if I were say someone that
Wanted to use it on iPad and I could write you know, hello very neatly this is on touchpad
So as you can imagine it's going to be a bit messy
But what you can do is you can utilize this feature called smart roaring
So for example if I went to do a circle and as me being myself the non-artists
I went to create a circle
Okay
A little bit up sided but it automatically detects that
Now apparently these features available in beta but you can do it for a range of things
Apparently you can do it with a star but I wouldn't be very good at doing a star. There we go
so it's pretty decent in terms of being able to sort of activate anything if you select the
Cursor icon you can also move it around
So naturally that's something that I think people will like especially designers. You can see here that the
the
Eraser is pretty easy to use and it will instantly delete anything away
So if I wanted to get rid of any text I could do so we've demonstrated the comment abilities
But let's also talk about the frame abilities
Now if you're a designer or someone that may want to demonstrate a website or something like that
maybe mock up an iPad application or mock up a poster or
You know get comments on something like that. Then what I could do is I can add a frame and friends basically
Help you - so this is an Android phone frame. You can see there that it helps you to
coordinate that
project and in this case
I could drag stuff onto it snap it into place and it that could be quite helpful
I can also upload images as well
I can upload them upload them from URL through the device or also through a Chrome extension as well
Now there are a few integrations you can for example use sticky captures my map
Can ban these are some of the apps that are ready pre-installed what we've already demonstrated. You can also use icon finder as well
So it also got an integration with icon finder
So if I was designing a new calendar application on the smartphone, I could obviously drag it over to here
so having some of those integrations do save you a bit of time and
You can even post iframe web page capture and also tables and charts and you can add more apps
But I do believe that falls into a new pricing category
So you're probably wondering what's this down in the bottom left-hand corner?
So you can also find all of the frames that you're currently working on
So, for example, you can title this one something a little bit different like Android
calendar app
And as you can see here are updates on this left-hand side
So if you had tons of them you'd be able to find them fairly fast
Now if I go down to here there is this presentation mode, which makes it a little bit more interactive
You can see here that if you had a specific app that you wanted to hone in on
Then it does focus in on that, but the presentation mode just basically removes any of the editing abilities
So it's almost like a locked experience so that you can just drag around
maybe you want to put it up on a big white board for you and your team to gain value from
That's just something to note
You can also see comments as a tap here per board and weather notes has been left for you
And also chat, so that's also a handy feature if you and your team are working in real time. This application was previously called
real time
board, I believe so it does have the abilities that you
can
Work this together. It's sort of like a Google Doc. You see someone else's cursor at the same time?
You can also see the cards they've been added. So these are blind cants. They've been added to the
the Kanban and you can click in find them pretty
instantaneously as well and you couldn't even see at mentions inside of the cards that are specific to yourself or
Another team member and here as well
you can also see the activity log so you can see every little thing that has been done and even the state and
location of those things
Which is very handy if you and your team are adding lots of information and what's nice. You can hide that away
So you can come find it later
So over here, there are a few things you can do for example in settings
You can change whether you follow the friends. You can learn the shortcuts
we learned a few like tabbing, but there is also frogs for example if I wanted to move the
article section if I press command shift and
Drag the item. I can actually move it to a completely different area
So that's command shift on Mac and drag
But I'll just double check on that one. So you can open up the there tabbing there and many of the features work
pre
Succinctly so you can even add shapes as well. So for example like our
Ol4 arrow etc, which is pretty handy
If you looking to save a bit of time
You can also find your account settings down here. And this is also this sort of learning in spire like mini University feature
so if you want to work, how do
Retrospectives or user frameworks. They've got a few there. You also have all updates which I mentioned earlier
You've got the search up here and there's this sort of like note feature where you can actually start like notes
Which is quite cool
So if I started to do lists, I can start sort of managing it here, but I'm just curious how that connects up
So if I opened up as a fool, you can see that a note is available there, but as you can imagine
It's just sort of like a pinned experience on that right hand side. I'm guessing if you wanted to drag stuff in
It doesn't look like you can do but maybe that's why it's beta maybe you would probably do that in the future
So that's quite a just a neat way to be able to just add it additional notes on this left-hand panel
So let's touch on the pricing as I explained
You do have free access to the mind maps and you can create a fair few
But you are unlimited to only three boards in total if you're a one member team
And apparently if you want to upgrade you can have to be a team of five by the looks of it
Because there's no way to actually upgrade a passed-out. It's $40
And as you can see, it's that's per
Yearly so it's about works out about ten dollars per month if you got billed monthly
But that gives you unlimited boards projects frameworks and JIRA and confluence
integrations as well as Kanban framework
So that's something that you just need to note
If you're looking to upgrade past those existing boards
But as you can imagine it's something that you'll have to check out give your own value
But I think it's a pretty neat tool overall
Let's just round up with a bit of a summary of what this application can do
So you're probably wondering who is this most suitable for now mirroring mind mapping is a great way to sort of
Collectively bring all of your thoughts together as I said whether that could be for a project whether it for an idea
Ideation which is very popular and made many people like in in a part of this community
He uses my node, which is a great application and you've also got applications like mind Meister
Which is another good one and my mapping tools are becoming more popular
A lot of people looking to applications like whimsical that can connect with notion just so they can get the mind mapping abilities
inside of their own application
So for companies, it's great for being able to plot out say a vision or a strategy but for individuals
It's more suitable just for being able to
coordinate some information and be able to maybe put a process to it or even just you holistically view it for a
50,000 feet view so if you're someone that uses say
traditional to-do list application note taker and all that and there then wants a way to
Visually plan then this could be a good way for you. It's a free application
So you're not losing anything out and if you're a visual thinker you've used Kanban boards all your life
Then this might be a nifty tool and actually be a little bit more intuitive for you
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