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submitted 3 months ago by oldany@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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[-] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 2 points 3 months ago

use a lemmy community that only you can post too?

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

Yeah that’s actually what I tried at some point too 😄

But I always felt it’s still a workaround — you’re adapting a tool that wasn’t really built for capturing.

The friction is lower, but it’s still there.

I keep thinking there should be something more “native” to this use case, something that sits between devices and apps rather than inside one of them.

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