![]() ![]() While there is no perfect solution, one way to circumvent Apples restrictions is to use links to cloud services, so online document storage. I’m not going to leave you with just technical ranting though. It becomes an issue when you use an app as part of a whole workflow. ![]() Sandboxing makes a lot of sense if you consider that your carry your life around with you and you don’t just want any app, or any person accessing your files. It’s the technical term that Apple uses for the restricted file access that it has implemented. So why can’t we do a thing where we store all the files in iCloud and then access them in MindNode on our iOS device? The answer is Sandboxing. And what’s worse, when you share the files to your mobile devices they would take up precious space and bandwidth. We don’t import the documents into MindNode, because it would make files huge and working on them clunky. An Alias is not the file itself, just a note with an address, like an URL. Let me get overly technical for a moment: ![]() The Aliases don’t transfer to other computers, or mobile devices. Once you move over to using the same document with multiple devices, or even on both the Mac and iOS platform, you will run into trouble. This is really great when you are working on a single Mac. To access the file you open the note, click the linked document symbol and the file is opened in Finder. MindNode takes care of the rest, adding an Alias for the file. You simply open a Finder window and drag the file onto the note. In MindNode 2 for Mac we have the ability to add any file on your Mac to a note. “I want to add files to my mind maps, can I do that?” Be it images, music, texts, or other types of digital files. One of the things that makes mind mapping on the computer so much more powerful than a simple paper document, is the ability to easily incorporate many different types of data. ![]()
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