# New user / index confusion/thoughts

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**Category:** Concepts\
**Created:** [December 20, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-user-index-confusion-thoughts/1105 "2023-12-20T20:48:02Z")\
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> [@Mkcmobile](#):
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> The first hiccup now is I’ve discovered that a limitation of the iOS iCloud system is that due to sandboxing an app can only link within it’s own iCloud folder space

I did not know that.

I also use the system-generated `iCloud/[Name of application]` folders. For me it’s so that I can invisibly edit a file on my Mac then go and edit the same file on the iPad. When that file is in the ‘special’ place, it Just Works®.

This is typically where I lean on having the JD number in the file name. Here’s my MindNode folder.

 ![Screenshot of my MindNode folder](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/uploads/default/original/1X/c2a69db1d8efce42d2150e95b6d1943fcec5b373.jpeg)

There is a bunch of mess above and below that isn’t in the screenshot. This isn’t perfect: but with the way Apple has designed things, I don’t see a way around it. You just have to choose:

1. Let Apple manage it, and deal with finding things your own way (i.e. numbers-in-filenames).
2. Manage it yourself, and lose some of the nice stuff (i.e. invisibly editing on iPad).

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