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

Good question — I don’t mean organizing or saving things long-term.

I mean that moment when you see or think something and don’t want to lose it.

Like:

a link you want to check later
a sentence you read
a quick thought
something you copied
a small piece of info you might need

The problem for me is that if capturing that takes more than a second, I often just don’t do it — or I postpone it and forget.

So “capture” is really just that instant: taking something from wherever you are and storing it somewhere with zero friction.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

You probably want linkwarden: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

I'm not sure if it handles non-link content like a random thought. Maybe a note-taking app for that; plenty of previous discussions on those if you search.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For this I just send a message to myself on Signal (or sometimes WhatsApp). I know, it's not a perfect solution, but for these simple things it's good enough and pretty much content agnostic.

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

Yeah I used that too for a while — it works surprisingly well, but I always felt it’s more of a workaround than something designed for capturing.