Introducing Mind Maps in Visio
With your Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license, you can now use mind maps in Visio for the web. Mind maps let you visualize your ideas on a canvas. You might start out with just a single central node/idea, but then elements grow outward in a spider format with additional nodes as you brainstorm with your team. You can easily modify the mind map and add new nodes or remove redundant ones without disrupting the visual fidelity of the diagram. It helps you organize your thoughts and find clarity.
For more details, see Create a mind map in Visio.
For a detailed discussion from the Visio product team, see Brainstorm your next big idea with mind maps in Visio for the web.
Edit legacy .vsd files
With a Visio Plan 2 license, you can edit legacy .vsd files directly in Visio for the web. Learn more about how to do this in the following YouTube video: How to edit .vsd files in Visio for the web
Create visual clarity with containers
Make your diagrams easier to understand with the containers feature. Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2 subscribers can now group related shapes and create visual clarity with ease.
Keyboard shortcuts at your fingertips
Access a handy list of key combinations to streamline your workflow and boost productivity: On the ribbon, select the Help tab, then select 
Organize related shapes with layers
With a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license, you can now use layers to group a related set of shapes in a drawing and change properties of all the layer members at once.
Other recent new features
Store additional information in your shapes
The new Shape Data pane allows you to store additional information in your shapes. It's useful for network diagrams, flowcharts, and more.
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For diagrams originally created in the Visio desktop app, Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2 subscribers can view and edit shape data fields in the Visio web app.
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Visio in Microsoft 365 users can view such shape data but cannot edit the data.
Right-click menu for formatting options
You can right-click a selection on the canvas to open a handy contextual menu of formatting options such as bold, italic, font style and size, alignment, plus Cut, Copy, and Paste.
Use Visio within Microsoft Teams
Visio is now available as a personal app, or private workspace, in Microsoft Teams. With a private workspace, you can view, edit, and create Visio files in a central location without leaving Teams.
Dynamics 365 and Power Platform icons
We now have two stencils with the latest icons to help illustrate your solutions built on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
Kubernetes shapes
We've added a stencil to help you visualize your containerized applications on Kubernetes.
Information-rich organization charts created easily
In Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2, you can now create organization charts that have photos and details like department name and contact info. And anyone using Visio for the web can create org charts more quickly and easily.
More templates to help you get started
We have more starter diagrams—for flowcharts, process steps, block diagrams, cycle diagrams, and business matrices. To get started, go to the Visio templates page, or see a list at Featured Visio templates and diagrams.
Shapes for business-process diagramming
Visio Plan 1 and 2 subscribers can draw Audit, EPC, and Fault Tree analysis diagrams in Visio for the web with new stencils for business processes. In the Shapes pane, search for any of the bolded terms.
BPMN diagrams
Visio Plan 2 subscribers can draw BPMN diagrams in Visio for the web with a new stencil. For more information, see Create BPMN-compliant processes.
Icons for your drawings
To illustrate your drawings, choose from over 1,000 icon shapes in approximately 30 categories like analytics, accessibility, people, processes, and many more. On the Shapes tab, search for a category; you'll get a stencil filled with related icons you can choose from.
