Create a free-form Mind Map for planning and organizing projects, or build on what you've already created in ClickUp.

What you'll need

• 60 uses of Mind Maps are included on the Free Forever Plan. 
• 100 uses of Mind Maps are included on the Unlimited Plan.
• Unlimited uses of Mind Maps are included on the Business plan and above.
• The following actions count as a use: 
  • Creating a view
  • Creating a node
  • Deleting a node
  • Saving changes 
  • Loading the Mind Map 
• Guests must have Edit permissions to create Mind Maps.  

When you reach the use limit for your Workspace, you won't be able to use Mind Maps until you upgrade your plan. 

Add a Mind Map view

To create a Mind Map: 

1. Click + Add in the Views Bar to open the Views modal.

2. Optional: You can check the Private view box if you don't want anyone else to access this view or the Pin view box if you want the view to always display in your Views Bar.
3. Select Mind Map.
4. Once the view has been created you can give the view a name and customize it using the Customize menu on the right. 

Use Mind Maps

Once you've added a Mind Map, you can choose between Tasks mode or Blank mode:

Tasks mode

Tasks mode will display all of the tasks in the location where the Mind Map exists. With task mode, you can rearrange your Workspace by dragging branches to adjust where nodes are located, and create, edit, or delete tasks and subtasks. 

To create or delete tasks: 

1. Select a List node. 
2. Click + to add a new task. 
3. Name the task. 
4. Click enter to create the task node. 

To edit tasks, select the expand icon on any task node.

To move tasks from one location to another: 

1. Click on the branch of the task, and a diamond will appear.
2. Grab and move the diamond to the new location. 

The color of the lines in Mind Maps is correlated with the List color and the status of each task. 

Blank mode

In Blank mode, you can create Mind Maps where nodes don't have to connect to any task structure. Create as many nodes as you want, then quickly convert them to tasks in any List.

In the upper-right corner, you can click Customize then Re-Layout to automatically rearrange all of your nodes.

Create child nodes

To create child nodes: 

1. Click the + beside the root node. 
2. Name the child node and press enter. 

Create sibling nodes

To create a sibling node: 

1. Click on a child node. 
2. Use the icon beneath the node to create a sibling node.

Move nodes

To move nodes from one location to another: 

1. Click on a branch of the node, and a diamond will appear.
2. Grab and move the diamond to a new location. 

Delete nodes

To delete a node, click on the node and select the trashcan icon. 

Delete a Mind Map

You can delete Mind Maps you no longer use, but they cannot be restored from the Trash.

To permanently delete a Mind Map:

1. Open the Mind Map view you want to delete.
2. Hover over the view name and click the ellipsis ... icon
3. Select Delete.