

Personally, I find it far easier to create content in an outline and then simply visualise it as a mind map rather than creating the content within a mind map. Step two:once we have a simple outlining tool, the obvious next step would be to link this to Miro’s mind mapping app so that outlines can be viewed as a mind map and vice-versa.

A third, non-essential, component of most outlining tools is the ability to ‘focus’ on a particular node, zooming in to show only a particular part of the hierarchy. This is a simple and quick way of organising ideas and would have so many use cases within meetings run inside a Miro board. To my mind, there are just two essential components of any outlining tool: i) the ability to expand and collapse parent nodes to show or hide nodes that are nested beneath them and ii) the ability to grab a node and drag it to a different location with the structure, so that content can be reorganised on the fly. Step one: Create a very simple Outline tool as a Miro app. They are a natural complement to mind-mapping.Īn outline is simply a document composed of ‘nodes’ or bullet-points that can be infinitely nested underneath each other: Outlines are the text equivalent of Miro’s graphical ‘infinite canvas’, the example of this par excellence being Workflowy. I would love to see a simple outlining tool in Miro to enable users to organise information hierarchically.
