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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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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Let's try this a different way...

How do you want to indicate something should be retained? What is the single, physical act you want to perform to tell the operating system "this thing needs to be captured"?

[–] oldany@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

That’s a really good way to frame it.

I kept coming back to the idea that the “act” shouldn’t be something new you have to learn — it should reuse what you’re already doing in each context.

So instead of one single physical gesture, it’s more like a single intent expressed through different native actions:

on mobile → share
on desktop → paste
in browser → bookmarklet
sometimes even just typing something and sending it

The key (for me) wasn’t forcing one gesture, but making all of those feel like the same action underneath.

So the mental model becomes: “this goes into my inbox”, regardless of how I triggered it.

That’s where things started to click for me.