Link to a Dropbox File

Preceden lets you add an image to an event, but it cannot store other kinds of files, such as PDFs or Word documents. You can keep those in another cloud service and link to them from your event notes.

Here's how to do that with Dropbox:

1. Get a link to your file

On a Mac, right-click the file in your Dropbox folder and click Share...:

A Dropbox folder in the macOS Finder with Meeting Notes.pdf right-clicked and Share highlighted in the context menu

(The process is similar on Windows and in the Dropbox web app.)

Next, click the Create link button:

Dropbox's share dialog for Meeting Notes.pdf, with an arrow pointing to the Create link button under Share a link instead

Dropbox then creates a link to the file, and Copy link puts it on your clipboard:

The same Dropbox share dialog once the link exists, with an arrow pointing to Copy link and a note that anyone with the link can view the file

The URL will look something like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b7p4nfzkuc5mnnctxozrp/Meeting-Notes.pdf?rlkey=t2j4v5rnjlf7sn9x54p5a3n6a&dl=0

Anyone with this URL can open the file. The URL is effectively impossible to guess, though, so the file stays private until you share the link, for example by adding it to a Preceden timeline.

2. Add a link to it from an event

Then add the URL as a link in your event's notes in Preceden.

For example, this Markdown shows the link as Download Meeting Notes rather than the full URL:

[Download Meeting Notes](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b7p4nfzkuc5mnnctxozrp/Meeting-Notes.pdf?rlkey=t2j4v5rnjlf7sn9x54p5a3n6a&dl=0)

And Preceden displays it like this:

A Board Meeting event on a Preceden timeline whose notes display a Download Meeting Notes link

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