What is a mind map template?
A mind map is a visual diagram that organises ideas around a central topic, with branches spreading out to capture themes, sub-themes, and the connections between them.
Most brainstorming sessions, strategy discussions, and planning calls are rich with topics and ideas that nobody captures properly. Someone says something that sparks three other things, a theme emerges, gets built on, then the meeting ends and you're left with a page of disconnected bullet points. Contented maps it all out visually for you, from the recording.
How to use a mind map template
Record your meeting in the Contented app, select the mind map template, and get a structured visual diagram within minutes.
1. Record your conversation
Capture your meeting, brainstorm, musing, or strategy session in the Contented app. It works for formal planning sessions, rambling creative discussions, walking meetings, or anything in between where ideas are flying around.
2. Select the mind map template
Choose mind map from within your Contented workspace. It will find the key theme, sub-themes and context from the conversation and produce a clean, visual map of how they connect.
3. Review and export
Download your mind map as a PNG or SVG within minutes of the conversation wrapping up. Share it with the team, drop it into a presentation, or use it as the starting point for your next planning session.
Who uses a mind map template?
Anyone trying to make sense of a complex conversation, a big idea, or a discussion that covered a lot of ground quickly.
A few examples:
- Strategy teams running offsites or quarterly planning sessions, where the conversation jumps between themes and someone needs to capture how it all connects.
- Product managers running discovery or ideation sessions, where a mind map helps surface the structure underneath a messy brainstorm.
- Educators and trainers who want a visual summary of a workshop or seminar.
- Consultants and agencies running client workshops and needing to show the client how their own thinking is organised.
- Researchers conducting interviews or focus groups, who need to see patterns across sessions.
- Board meetings and leadership reviews, where a mind map can distill a wide-ranging discussion into a single, shareable diagram.
- Conference sessions and panel discussions.
What's in a mind map template?
- A central node representing the core topic or theme of the conversation.
- Primary branches capturing the main themes that emerged from the discussion.
- Sub-branches with supporting ideas, details, and the connections between them.
- Export-ready formatting as PNG or SVG, ready to share or drop straight into a deck.
FAQs
No. Contented only works with what’s within the recording. It applies structured templates to your transcript rather than generating text from scratch, so there's no room for fabrication. Every output traces back to a speaker or timestamp, and you review and finalise everything before it leaves your team.
Yes, on team plans. We build custom templates that match your organisation's existing formats, branding and terminology. Every document Contented produces is then consistent with what your team already uses, regardless of who created it.
Yes. You can share conversations directly with individual team members or groups within your workspace. Recipients can view the conversation and generate their own documents and insights from it. You can also share with full permission, so others can edit and manage the recording. What you create can be downloaded to share as a document or CSV.