Give a Mind Map a One-Line Reason It Exists
Once you have more than a handful of maps, a one-line description is what makes search and favorites actually work — organize before you need to, not after.
The first mind map you make is easy to find — it's the only one. The tenth is a different story. Once you've got a real collection, "which one was this again" becomes the actual friction, and it has nothing to do with how good any individual map is. Piskes's answer to that isn't a better editing experience — it's a small set of organizing tools that only pay off once you actually use them.
The description field is doing real work
Every map has a description field, and it isn't decorative — the list view's search filters against both the map's name and its description, so a one-line note about what a map is actually for is often the difference between finding it in three seconds and scrolling past a dozen similarly-named maps trying to remember which is which.
Worth knowing: this field wasn't always saved properly. For a while, the create dialog collected a description and silently dropped it — it looked like you were setting one, and it just wasn't being stored. That's been fixed, with the column added specifically to make sure descriptions you type actually persist and actually get searched. If you've been skipping the description field out of a vague memory that it "didn't really do anything," that's no longer true, and it's worth going back and filling it in on maps that don't have one yet.
Favoriting is real, not cosmetic
Favoriting a map is a genuine toggle, not a local UI preference that disappears the moment you switch devices — it's a real, persisted action. If you have a handful of maps you return to constantly, favoriting them is a legitimate way to keep them one click away instead of buried in a longer list.
The habit worth building
Organize before you need to, not after — write the one-line description the moment you create a map, while its purpose is still obvious to you, rather than trying to reconstruct what a map was for three weeks later when the name alone no longer tells you. It's a thirty-second habit that pays for itself the first time search actually finds the map you meant instead of three others with similar names.