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How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by oldany@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I’ve been struggling with something that sounds simple but is surprisingly annoying:

capturing content quickly across devices in a self-hosted environment.

On Android there’s share, on iOS shortcuts, on desktop copy/paste… but everything feels fragmented.

I often end up losing things or postponing them just because capturing isn’t frictionless.

Curious how others handle this.

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] oldany@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good question 🙂

For me it’s mostly the small, in-the-moment things:

  • a link I want to check later
  • a quick thought or idea
  • a snippet of text or code
  • something I see on my phone that I don’t want to lose
  • sometimes even just a reminder or “I should look into this”

Not really structured notes — more like “things that appear during the day” that I don’t want to think about organizing right away.

That’s also why tools like Joplin or OneNote never quite fit for me in that specific moment — they work great once you sit down to write something, but not as much as a quick, frictionless entry point.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Right on. I actually saw your response to the other person down lower right after posting this 😂

I'm curious to see how you tackle this puzzle. I usually just text myself with this kind of thing, but I know that doesn't work for everyone...

[–] oldany@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah exactly — that’s pretty much the pattern I kept falling into too.

“Texting myself” works, but it still feels like you're bending a tool to do something it wasn’t really designed for.

What I was trying to fix was that exact moment before that — when something appears and you either capture it instantly… or lose it.

So instead of choosing the tool each time, I tried to make the entry point always the same, and push the “what is this?” decision later.

Curious if that resonates with how you use it day-to-day.