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
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      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.

  • @nickiam2@aussie.zone
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    Signal. I use it anyway so it’s not an extra “bloated” app and I know all the secrets I send over the app are encrypted.

    If you use a password manager, most have a notes feature that works well too.

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      +1 for Signal. It’s already on my phone, and already on my PC and laptop. It is a simple Flatpak install on Linux. It’s end-to-end encrypted. I use that for one-off notes and files between my phone and my PC or between my laptop and PC.

      For notes and small files that I know I’ll want to save to reference at another time, I put them in my KeePassXC database because that’s already set to sync between devices.

    • Clay_pidgin
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      529 days ago

      I love your privacy/security summary. Thank you for your honesty!

      This looks like a handy tool.

      • @sznowicki@lemmy.world
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        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.

  • @PoolloverNathan@programming.dev
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    SSH over Tailscale to Termux (all three free) using private-key authentication — two levels of e2ee, and fairly easy to use.

    For small bits of text, I use one of these, depending on the direction and the source device:

    • Laptop → phone: xclip -o | ssh phone termux-clipboard-set
    • Laptop ← phone: ssh phone termux-clipboard-get | xclip
    • Phone → laptop: termux-clipboard-get | ssh laptop DISPLAY=:0 xclip
    • Phone ← laptop: ssh laptop DISPLAY=:0 xclip -o | termux-clipboard-set

    For larger things, or files, I use scp. For other devices that I haven’t setup beforehand, or can’t set up (e.g. can’t run arbitrary programs), I connect to my phone’s hotspot, and use Total Commander’s Wi-Fi transfer addon for files (both of which are also free). Small strings I just copy over by eye and hope it goes well.

  • @mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    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
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      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.

    • @sinedpick
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      It’s a huge failure of computing that this is the most convenient and obvious way to do this.

      • @B0rax@feddit.org
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        Yep… but if you are on iOS and Mac, copy and paste works perfectly fine and seamless. But any other combination is not good.

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          *If you have paid for newer gen and all of your iOS and Mac devices are compatible…

          FTFY, it’s a heavy caveat that makes 80% of their equipment dead unless you give it a second life with a different operating system. I’ve got perfectly decent devices that are bricks in their current original OS unless I get real technical with it. One I can double the ram capacity in it because for some reason apple throttled it’s size but the hardware is designed for more if you just tweak it.

          I wish apple was better about it and the device file transfers was just a staple thing that had since conception. Air transfer is a pain in the ass from past experience and works when it wants to, cloud syncing also works when it wants to even when telling it to update it now. I have a partner who uses apple almost exclusively, it’s so close to being something decent but I can never tell what’s actually going on with a device and there always seems to be some kind of weird hiccup in any process (like 25% of the time, still noticeable from being seamless though).

          (I have frustration from this, I apologize for my rant)

  • @toastal@lemmy.ml
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    I use the note to self capability of my XMPP server to send a message to myself for these sort of one-offs. I would never want my data in the hands of some proprietary service if I have the option—sharing data just to yourself on these services also means it is Big Tech’s data now too. All of the XMPP clients are super lightweight.

    Bigger cases, I will use scp, rsync, or magic wormhole. Or just using removeable storage.

  • @ironsoap@lemmy.one
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    I’ve been working with this issue for along time. Trying to find something platform agnostic and works with vpns.

    App wise, I suggest Localsend for files

    Information wise, I suggest Saladroom although there are several alternatives as well like ToffeeShare and ShareDrop

    I mostly use Signal though, as it’s the simplest at hand app which fairly reliably makes it accessible to my various devices… With the downside of storing it.

  • monovergent 🏁
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    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

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