Sometime i want to send small messages between devices, such as a url, a note, a id, a token, a piece of code, a picture Especially send between phone and laptop.

Some chatting app have self messages such as telegram saved messages, slack (you), Microsoft team…

However i don’t want a bloated chat app that would took few hundred mb on phone, or required to install an app on my pc (linux which make many app broken). I don’t want work chat app too, because self messages can be seen and scanned by employer (yes, a security add on chatbot on slack warm me because i send something like password to myself on slack)

Something like Opera Flow would fit perfectly, but i don’t want opera browser.

    • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      Idk why this is so low. Kdeconnect is all about sharing information between devices, url/file even notifications. It also has remote control and ping devices.

  • fart_pickle@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 months ago

    Linux pc + android phone - use Syncthing

    Linux pc + iPhone - use KDE connect (or GSConnect for GNOME)

      • sznowicki@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        Thx! I made it for myself one evening when I needed to copy some passwords to my toy android before I managed to have cross platform password manager.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    If you use a web email account, just create a draft email and don’t send it. Then log into your email account on the other device and read it there.

    • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 months ago

      This is the poor man’s tech work-around and can indeed confirm it works lol. You are limited by your services upload size though so beware, you might find yourself having to do multiples and then it’s just starting to get inconvenient.

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    For sending over small stuff, I usually generate a qr code and scan it with the other device.

  • Quintus@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 months ago

    All the listed options are nice but if you are looking for something more portable and doesn’t require any installing, I recommend PairDrop.

  • monovergent 🛠️@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 months ago

    QR code reader and generator on both phone and laptop

    • Phone: SecScanQR
    • Laptop: ZBarCam and Zint

    But I’m glad to have learned about LocalSend here so I’m no longer limited to short text snippets

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 months ago

      Requires Dropbox.

      Would be great if it could let you sync stuff yourself, like with Syncthing or Resilio.

      I refuse to use Cloud storages.

      Still this is one of the best solutions I’ve seen.

      • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        Yup. That’s my one hangup. Except you don’t even need to install Dropbox. It just uses the Dropbox API (correct me if I’m wrong please).

        The developer is a single(?) person based out of Germany and is pretty chill. I didn’t know it had Ubuntu and all support till after using it for a long time. I literally would use it just for iOS to Mac and back.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
          2·
          4 months ago

          Yea, just requires a Dropbox account. And unfortunately I can’t get it to authenticate.

          I’ll try some more when I have time, it’s a brilliant solution.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    I usually just use an email draft for cross platform transfers. MacOS/iOS handle this pretty much automatically and Linux has a good option (KDE Connect) but it sounds like you’re on Windows.

    Does Phone Link (built into Windows) work for your needs? I don’t use Windows often but I know they’re trying to make something sort of like the other OS’s syncing systems. Not sure how good it is.

    • Karu 🐲@lemmy.ml
      8·
      4 months ago

      Last I checked, KDE Connect can be installed on Windows as well. It’s not locked into the KDE ecosystem or even Linux.