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.worldOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      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.