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.
SSH over Tailscale to Termux using private-key authentication — free e2ee, and fairly easy to use.
For small bits of text, I use one of these, depending on the direction and the source device:
xclip -o | ssh phone termux-clipboard-set
ssh phone termux-clipboard-get | xclip
termux-clipboard-get | ssh laptop DISPLAY=:0 xclip
ssh laptop DISPLAY=:0 xclip -o | termux-clipboard-set
For larger things, or files,
scp
it is.