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.

  • oldany@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 hours 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.