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.

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 days ago

    What I kept struggling with is the step before that — actually capturing something in the moment, from whatever context you’re in.

    Even with sync in place, I always felt like I still had to decide where to put things and which tool to use.

    Pictures go in the pictures folder. Videos go in the videos folder. Documents go in the documents folder. Etc, etc…

    All of these folders live in your $USER folder.

    • oldany@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 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.

      • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        7 days ago

        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 just text myself, but I know that doesn’t work for everyone…