Just pushed a small update based on real usage feedback.

Fixed a couple of issues (attachments cleanup + clipboard counts) and improved the Apple Shortcut for multiple items.

Still keeping things simple and focused on fast capture.

Small update: DropMind just showed up in today’s selfh.st newsletter under development activity.

Feels like the idea is slowly starting to resonate — curious to see how people end up using it in their own setups.

Yeah I get what you mean 🙂

Shortcuts work (that’s what I’m using on iOS right now), but they can feel a bit “indirect” compared to something more native like share sheets or drag & drop.

Curious to hear how it feels once you try it — especially what feels frictionless vs what doesn’t.

Yeah I tried going the “second brain” route too (Trilium, Obsidian, etc.)

What I kept running into is that they’re great once something is already in the system — but capturing still feels like a separate step where you have to think about where it belongs.

I started wondering if capturing should be completely independent from organization, and almost “context-free”.

More like a thin layer you can hit instantly from anywhere, without deciding anything upfront.

Sure 🙂

What I ended up building is basically a very minimal “capture layer”.

The idea is simple: no matter where you are (phone, browser, desktop), capturing something should always be the same action.

In practice:

• Android → share
• iOS → shortcut
• browser → bookmarklet
• desktop → just paste

Everything goes into the same place instantly, without deciding upfront what it is or where it belongs.

No tags, no structure, no “mode switching”.

Just capture first, decide later (or never).

I built it mainly because I was tired of stitching together different tools depending on context.

If you want to take a look: https://github.com/oldany/dropmind

Yeah — that’s exactly the feeling I kept running into.

At some point I stopped trying to adapt existing tools and ended up building something around this idea of “uniform capture”.

It’s basically a very minimal layer where you can send anything (text, links, quick notes, etc.) from any device in one step — without worrying about where it goes or how it’s structured.

Still early, but it’s been working surprisingly well for me in daily use.

Yeah KDE Connect is great for device-to-device flow, I’ve used it too.

What I always found tricky is that it works really well once you’re already “in the flow”, but not so much as a quick capture entry point.

Like, it helps moving things around — but not necessarily deciding to capture something instantly in the first place.

That’s where I always felt something was missing.

Yeah that makes sense — I ended up with similar setups at some point.

What always bothered me a bit is exactly that fragmentation: different tools depending on what you’re capturing and from where.

It works, but it feels like you’re constantly switching “mode” depending on context.

I keep wondering if capturing should really depend on the destination at all, or if it should be something more uniform.