Comment on How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup?

• oldany@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You probably want linkwarden: 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.

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  • Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • oldany@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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