Comment on How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup?
oldany@lemmy.world 3 days agoGood 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.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.