The Google Drive application can be used to sync files stored on your Google Drive with your local file system. Therefore, it is a good idea to choose names without spaces.įinally, the edited mind map can be opened in iThoughts again and it displays the changes made in XMind: Edited mind map in iThoughts In the case described the mind map was called “Google Drive Test Map.xmind” but it ended up in iThoughts as “GoogleDriveTestMap”. If the mind map is sent to iThoughts and its name includes spaces they get removed. Here a problem within the workflow was encountered. Next step is to open the mind map in iThoughts, therefore the iPad Google Drive App has to be opened, the file selected and send to iThoughts: Open file in iThoughts Another possibility would be to upload the new version using the Google Drive website. If Google Drive Mac App and its Google Drive Folder are used the mind map just has to be saved in XMind and it gets uploaded. Now it is time to make some more changes in XMind: Edited mind mapĪfterwards the mind map has to be saved to Google Drive again. As soon as permissions are provided the upload should start: Uploading fileĪfter the upload is finished the mind map should be stored in Google Drive folder and it can be opened using XMind: Mind map opened in XMind xmind, so this file type and Open in Google Drive have to be selected: Send to Google DriveĪfterwards Google Drive App should open and ask for permission to upload the file. Open mind map from Google Drive Folder using XMindįirst of all create a new mind map in iThoughts: Edit mind mapĪfterwards it has to be sent to Google Drive App in order to upload it to the shared drive: Send to App.Create a mind map in iThoughts on the iPad.

The following steps will be executed in the workflow description: After trying around a little bit I developed a small workflow that seems to work and I am going to describe it in this blog post. However, you can send your mind maps to other apps and the Google Drive App is one of those you can choose.

Unfortunately, iThoughts does not support Google Drive syncing at the moment. In general, I use Google Drive as my cloud provider and did not want to install additional software on my Mac. Therefore, I had a look into both products in order to find a way to work with my mind maps on both devices. Of course there is the requirement to share mind maps between my devices. For my mind maps I use XMind on my Mac and iThoughts on my iPad. In my daily work I like to create mind maps for many tasks, such as meeting minutes or brainstorming before starting a new task.

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