#coggle

One problem I’ve had when writing down my story ideas is that, with some of my longer notes documents, the ideas (with exception to ideas that are directly subsidiary of another) mostly end up getting organized by when I came up with them because it’s hard to move the bullet points around.

I’ve been meaning to find an app that can do a mind web/idea web/ whatever conveniently and I finally found one called Coggle and from first impressions it’s great

Way to edit text and move text boxes & the connections between them

Can have multiple “central ideas” within a document

It allows for interconnecting existing ideas, even if they come from different “central ideas)

All these features are available in the free version

New! Realtime editing activity in Coggle diagrams

With the new world of remote work, remote collaborative editing is more important than ever. We've launched a big improvement to the way this works in Coggle: now you can see which item everyone else in the diagram is currently editing, or interacting with, including when they're typing and when they're just idle.

This makes it even easier to collaborate on your mind maps and flowcharts with your remote team. If you have one of our paid plans this also includes one-click guest editing, where each guest editors have a unique colour for each editing session to help identify them.

Do you live your work life with zoom open in one tab and Coggle in another? Let us know what you think!

Now you can Sign in to Coggle with your Microsoft Account!

We've never wanted to add username/password login to Coggle, because it's difficult to do securely, so from the very start we supported logging in Google accounts instead. This uses the OAuth 2.0 protocol to let you securely sign in without us having to deal with passwords, password resets, detecting suspicious signins, or any of that.

But what if you didn't have, or didn't want, a Google account? Unless you were prepared to pay for our business-grade version of Coggle there was no alternative.

But now there is!

We've added support for signing in with any Microsoft account, both personal accounts (formerly Windows Live accounts, and before that known as MSN accounts), and business-managed Organizational Microsoft accounts.

If you previously used a Google account you can now also sign in with a Microsoft account! Just make sure you're using the same email address for your Microsoft account as your existing primary email address.

We've just released the biggest update ever to Coggle. Keeping things simple and beautiful has always been at the heart of what we do, and now we're bringing the same ideas to the world of flow-charts!

Flowcharts are all about shapes. The new shape menu allows you to set a flowchart shape on any item in a diagram. Basic shapes are available to everyone, for free, with more advanced shapes in our paid plans:

We've also made creating multiple root items in a diagram available for free, and joining branches together to make loops is now also free. These are important tools for creating flowcharts, and we want everyone to be able to create beautiful flowcharts with Coggle!

For more advanced diagrams we know it's sometimes useful to change the paths of connections. That's why our Awesome plan now includes control points to adjust the paths of lines.

Drag the new control points to adjust the line, or click a control point you've added to remove it:

And there's more! We've also added the options to use straight connections between items, and to adjust the alignment of the text to the Awesome plan:

As you might have noticed, we've also introduced a snappy and stylish new menu. The menu adapts to the performance of your computer, with a beautiful glass-effect background in supported browsers.

You can use all the exciting new features right now over at coggle.it.

Welcome to a slightly more timely update on what's new in Coggle (has it really been only a few months since the last one!).

Sign in By Email

First, at coggle.it/login you'll notice a brand new option to 'Sign in by Email Address'. Until now we've only supported social sign-ins, but now you've got an even more convenient option to create mindmaps, without needing a google/microsoft/apple account.

The email sign-in will send a secure code to your email address for each log-in (there's no password). We've opted for a 12 digit code, along with some other security enhancements over the 6-digit email sign-in codes you might have seen on other sites, to make sure this option is secure.

Enhanced Security Settings

And on the subject of security you'll also notice a new security section of your settings page:

This allows you to add passkeys for seamless and phishing-proof login. Passkeys are stored by your browser or device, can be secured by biometrics, and are both the fastest and the most secure way to sign in. (That's the kind of security we like!)

To use a passkey to sign in click on 'sign in by email' on the login page. Your browser will offer to use your passkey, and then once you've authorised it (using fingerprint / faceID depending on your device) you'll be instantly signed in, without needing to leave the page or find an email code.

Share by QR Code

Our second update is also about making using Coggle easier, anywhere. We've always supported sharing Coggle diagrams using links, but sometimes a long link is cumbersome and difficult to use, requiring copying and pasting or sharing into an email or message. If you're in the same room as whoever you want to share your mindmap with, then there's now a much easier way:

In the revamped sharing menu click 'Create QR Code': anyone can scan this with their camera app, to instantly get access!

Just like links, QR codes also allow editing with our awesome plan, so they're a really fast way to get an in-person brainstorming session up and running!

What's next?

Aside from all our other normal bug fixes and snappy speed improvements, that's all for now.

But we've got another big update to make Coggle the most powerful mindmapping app out there coming soon, so stay tuned!

As always if you have any feedback or suggestions about updates, just drop us a message at [email protected].

It's been far too long (once again) since the last update to let you know what's new with Coggle, and as always lots of things have changed and we haven't put a single pleep out on socials.

So that you're not left forever wondering if you're losing your mind with questions like "did the buttons always work like that?" or "I don't remember seeing that option before?" here's your very occasional update on some of the new things in Coggle!

Big things first. Coggle now has a native dark mode for night owls and other dark aesthetes. The dark mode will follow your browser or system preference, or you can toggle it in your settings.

We've also made some dramatic improvements for editing on touch-screen devices. We have an installable progressive web app that you can save to your home screen, and we've updated our icon branding across Coggle to match. On all touch-screen devices there's now a new editing toolbar at the bottom of the screen, with shortcuts to open menus, create and delete branches, copy, and Cogglify:

For mouse-users as well as touch screens our beautiful radial menus have been re-engineered and now support new ways of interaction, including dragging to select menu items without lifting your click/finger.

Did you know there are over 26 different ways to add new items to a Coggle mind map! That's all the different menus, gestures, keyboard shortcuts and toolbars that people use on different kinds of devices. We're not completely sure that that's a good thing, but it shows how much complexity goes into keeping Coggle simple on the surface.

For the folders in your documents list we've added a little menu with big new options to organise and sort your diagrams.

You might also have noticed new information and hints in the 'saving...' status bar in the bottom left corner, an improved help menu, better conflict resolution for simultaneous editing on laggy connections, improved hovering and nearby-display logic for add-node buttons, translations for 5 new languages, ultra buttery smooth adjustment of control points, our new shortcut to count words, and improved fonts across the user interface.

Cogglify is now faster, more robust, and links to other mind maps display the Coggle logo so you can quickly identify them (Although we have fixed a bug where cogglify allowed you to exceed the private diagrams limit... sorry!).

We've made diagram navigation even smoother, with better zooming in large diagrams. Dramatically improved the documents list performance in Safari, and improved loading performance everywhere with much more optimised javascript bundling.

If you try to use a 'select all' shortcut we've got a new menu that might help you. But you still can't select items in Coggle (and we don't have any plans to change that).

Finally there have also been far too many other little bug fixes and quality improvements to list them all.

It's been a busy year.

What hasn't changed? Auto-arrange. Sorry. We know you want your Coggle mind maps to automatically arrange themselves beautifully, but we promise it's really worth the time to carefully position things yourself. It creates diagrams that are so much more memorable and characterful than a rigid auto-arrange ever could.

We did change our minds about dark mode this year, so it is possible we'll do the same for auto-arrange in the future though...

Enjoy Coggling your thoughts with the new updates! and if you have any comments or suggestions just drop us an email at [email protected]