The Fleece AI Brain Dropbox connector walks your Dropbox from the root, recursively, and syncs every file into a local-first knowledge base of plain Markdown and SQLite on your own machine. The text of Office documents, PDFs and text files is extracted into the note body; images and other binaries come in as titled nodes you can still find by name. From there, any MCP-compatible AI app such as Claude Desktop or Cursor can read a decade of files, with the answer no longer buried in a folder.
What syncs from Dropbox
Everything comes in as knowledge nodes — ordinary files you can open, link and search, not rows locked in someone else's cloud.
Files across every folder
The connector reads your Dropbox recursively from the root, so files in any folder — however deep or forgotten — are pulled in.
Extracted document text
The text of Office files, PDFs and text documents is pulled into the note body, so the Brain reads the content, not just the path.
Images and binaries as titled nodes
Files it can't extract, like images and video, arrive as notes titled by their name, so nothing drops out of search.
Incremental updates
Sync resumes from a modified-date cursor and pages through with Dropbox's own cursor, so each run only fetches files added or changed since the last one.
Built-in deduplication
A seen-ledger means a re-sync updates existing notes instead of creating duplicates.
Connect Dropbox in four steps
No IT project, no webhook plumbing — one sign-in from the desktop app.
- 01
Install Fleece AI Brain
Download the desktop app for macOS, Windows or Linux and open your vault — a folder of plain Markdown files on your machine.
- 02
Open Connectors and pick Dropbox
In the app, open the connectors panel, choose Dropbox, and sign in with your Dropbox account. OAuth is brokered securely; the raw file content never transits Fleece's servers.
- 03
Choose which account to connect
The connector reads the files the connected Dropbox account can see, from the root down. Sign in with the account scoped to the files you want remembered.
- 04
Let it sync — then ask
Sync runs in the background and stays up to date. Point Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP app at your Brain and ask it to find a case study or proposal written years ago.
Ten years of files, in folders nobody dares touch.
Every team's Dropbox is an archaeological site. A decade of proposals, exports, brand assets and "final_v3" files, sorted by a folder logic that made sense to whoever set it up and to no one since. Reorganizing it would take a week and break every link, so nobody does — the pile just grows.
The knowledge is all in there; it just can't be reached. Names lie, folders nest, and the file you need is indistinguishable from the ten near-duplicates around it. The Dropbox connector reads the files' actual text into one living knowledge graph, so the answer stops depending on remembering which folder it lived in.
Your files go from Dropbox to your disk.
Authentication is a standard OAuth sign-in, but the sync itself calls the Dropbox API from the desktop app on your machine, and the extracted text lands straight in your vault as Markdown and SQLite. When a managed sign-in can't hand the app a direct token, the request is proxied — but the raw file content never transits Fleece's own servers.
The connector is read-only and never reorganizes, renames or deletes anything in Dropbox. The notes it writes are yours, they open in Obsidian, and you take them with you if you leave.
- +Sync runs from your machine — raw file content never transits Fleece's servers
- +Read-only — your Dropbox folders are never touched, moved or renamed
- +Vault = plain .md files + SQLite, 100% Obsidian-compatible, full CRDT history
Give every AI app a decade of context.
One copy-paste connects the Brain to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Zed or agents you build. From then on, "find the case study we wrote for that healthcare client" is answered from the actual file — wherever in the tree it was buried, with the source note one click away.
Because the Brain searches locally on meaning and exact words at once, a vague memory ("the old onboarding deck") and an exact phrase ("Q3 2021 retention") both land. On Teams, the organization map also shows which agents used those files and what they cost.
Dropbox connector — FAQ
Does my Dropbox data pass through Fleece's servers?+
Sign-in uses a brokered OAuth flow, and the sync calls the Dropbox API from the desktop app on your machine. When a managed sign-in can't expose a direct token the call is proxied, but the raw file content never transits Fleece's own servers — the extracted text lands straight in your local vault, which we never see or store.
Which files does it sync, and how do I limit it?+
The connector reads your Dropbox recursively from the root and syncs every file the connected account can access. You scope it by choosing which account to connect — sign in with an account whose access is limited to the files you want remembered.
Does it write anything back to Dropbox?+
No. The connector is read-only: it never reorganizes, renames, moves or deletes anything in Dropbox — it only reads files into your knowledge base.
How often does it sync?+
Sync runs in the background from the desktop app and resumes from where it left off, so each run only fetches files added or changed since the last one. Re-syncs update existing notes rather than creating duplicates.
Which plan do I need to connect Dropbox?+
The local brain is free, and connectors are the paid lever: Solo (€12/month) includes up to 3 connected tools, Pro (€24/month) makes them unlimited with auto-sync. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial, no card required.
How do I ask Claude or Cursor about my files?+
Connect the Brain to Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP-compatible app with a single copy-paste. Your AI then answers from the synced Dropbox files, citing the exact note it drew from.
Can I open the synced files outside the app?+
Yes. Every file becomes an ordinary Markdown note in your vault, fully Obsidian-compatible — open, edit or grep them with any tool, and take them with you if you ever leave.
What happens if I disconnect Dropbox?+
Sync stops, and everything already in your vault stays yours — the notes are local files, not a mirror that vanishes with the connection.
Make a decade of files searchable at last.
Connect Dropbox in one sign-in and give your whole AI stack the content no folder structure would let you find.