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.

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    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.

  • nickiam2@aussie.zone
    3·
    22 hours ago

    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.

  • ninjaturtle@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Localsend is a good one to try out. Works with all devices and is pretty fast. It does however require an app to run.

    For something you can run off the web on PC you can try pairdrop. This doesn’t require an app to work on PC. Haven’t tried it without the app on mobile so not sure if it will work on there via web.

    I prefer Localsend over pairdrop due to local send being completely server less and all local.

    • Archer@lemmy.world
      0·
      15 hours ago

      They stopped developing their iOS app years ago, if you have an iPhone it’s useless

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
    01·
    1 day ago

    I have a discord DM to myself that I use.

    Oh, posted this before I read the rest of your message lol. Nvm.