Get the ideas out of your head and into a shape. Branch with the keyboard, colour by theme, start from a UX template or paste an outline. Free, no sign-up.
Start in the middle
Pick a template or type your central idea.
Branch out
Tab adds a child, Enter adds a sibling. The layout tidies itself.
Share it
Export a PNG or SVG for your deck, or an outline for your doc.
Tab adds a child · Enter adds a sibling · start typing to rename · arrows move around · Alt+↑↓ reorders · drag to pan, Ctrl/⌘ + scroll to zoom. Saved in this browser as you go.
One idea per node
Short labels, three or four words. If a node needs a sentence, it probably wants to be two nodes.
Go wide, then deep
Get every main branch down before you go into detail on any of them. It stops one branch eating the whole session.
Paste from AI, then judge
Ask Claude or ChatGPT for an indented list, paste it in with Paste outline, then cut, merge and rename until it's yours.
Colour by meaning
Use colour for something: user needs in one colour, business goals in another, risks in a third. Not just to make it pretty.
Yes, completely, with no sign-up and no limits on maps or nodes.
In your browser, as you work, so it's there when you come back on the same device. To keep a copy or move it, export JSON and open it again later.
Yes. Paste outline takes any indented list (dashes, numbers or tabs) and turns it into a map: the first line is the centre.
A PNG or SVG image, a Markdown outline for docs and Notion, or JSON to edit later. Copy outline puts the list on your clipboard.
Brainstorming features, planning research, mapping what you know about users, outlining a case study, and untangling a messy problem before you open your design tool.
More free tools
A mind map gets the ideas out. Turning them into research, flows and screens that work for real people is what we teach: foundations, UX research, UI, design systems and AI products, with mentors and real projects.
Or practise first: Design thinking, UX challenges and the Laws of UX.