Whenever I have to pass something between my phone and laptop (a photo, a note, a link that I'd rather deal with on my computer, etc), my default way to do it is to put it in a Facebook message to myself and then access it on the other device. This seems like a very Boomer way to do things but I don't know any other way.
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Ben Millwood
in reply to Amber Dawn • •I think this is a fine thing to do, although note that it's possible that e.g. photos will be compressed / lose quality through the trip.
Thinking about what the "proper" / "best" way to do it would be, I thought of Apple's AirDrop, which I think somewhat solves this problem, and looked online for Android equivalents. Apparently Samsung and Google devices have "Quick Share", and here's an article about using it to transfer to Mac: xda-developers.com/how-use-nea… -- can't remember if your device is one of those though, mine isn't
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Sam FM
in reply to Amber Dawn • •I also do self-messages for this. It doesn't really seem worth seeing up a special system for sending between my own devices, when messaging systems are already so efficient at sending stuff to any device, including my own.
Many services I use are synced across devices by default. For things that aren't auto-synced though, it's hard to imagine a better system than a quick copy-paste into a "send anywhere" app.
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