Comment on How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoWhat 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.world 3 days ago
Good question 🙂
For me it’s mostly the small, in-the-moment things:
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.com 3 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…
oldany@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah exactly — that’s pretty much the pattern I kept falling into too.
“Texting myself” works, but it still feels like you’re bending a tool to do something it wasn’t really designed for.
What I was trying to fix was that exact moment before that — when something appears and you either capture it instantly… or lose it.
So instead of choosing the tool each time, I tried to make the entry point always the same, and push the “what is this?” decision later.
Curious if that resonates with how you use it day-to-day.