Syncing MindJet App With Dropbox

MindJet recently changed their pricing for their mindmap app to FREE. So I grabbed it. And I have dropbox which was the appeal – I could work on maps wherever I was.

So, because I was travelling when I downloaded the app (iPhone) I started merrily using it and created three extensive maps for courses I was preparing and books I am in the process of writing.

I stored them, logically, in local files.

Then I setup my dropbox account within MindJet. Set up a folder in DropBox for MindJet maps.

And hit the sync button.

Nothing.

Off to Google to find a solution.

Nothing.
Off to the Mindjet website and forums.
Nothing.
Then I decided, well, let me see if it works in reverse. Back at the office PC I uploaded s map to dropbox.
Logged in to the iPhone app. Yes! That worked. I could see the map. I could work on the app. That’s when I realised that to use the dropbox facility on the mindjet app, the map had to be in dropbox. So having worked it out, here’s what you do …

Download the Mindjet app to your iPhone

Set up your dropbox account

Access any map in your dropbox account through the Mindjet app

For any maps you create on your iPhone, use the copy function to copy it into dropbox

Once I worked that out, all was good.