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submitted 13 hours 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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[-] Lemmchen@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

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 2 hours 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.

this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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