I got tired of emailing myself scripts, so I built this

Posted by One_Painting134@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 42 comments

Does anyone else still email themselves stuff just to get it onto another device?

I seem to be doing it all the time. PowerShell scripts, BitLocker keys, command outputs, serial numbers, URLs, random notes.

I got sick of it and ended up building a little tool for myself.

It basically works like a temporary clipboard. Open a room, paste some text, then open the same room on another device and copy it out. No account, no install, no messing around.

One thing I've found surprisingly handy is that it also works from the command line, so if I'm on a Linux box, Mac, Windows terminal, or SSH session, I can push text straight into a room with curl and grab it from my phone or another PC.

I've been using it for a while now and figured other techs might find it useful too.

Just interested in honest feedback. Is this something you'd actually use, or do you already have a better way of moving text between devices?

https://www.tempmemo.com

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SolidKnight@reddit

Is this for removable or fixed drives? I've never had to enter a recovery key for anything other than the recovery screen which you have to type in as far as I'm aware.

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Lawlmuffin@reddit

Great another site I need to block on our proxy..

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Arudinne@reddit

Yeah... adding that to our blocklist too.

@OP - Just buy a thumbdrive.

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

😂😂😂

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jayaram13@reddit

So, GitHub gist.

Also, if you're emailing yourself bitlocker keys, you have a bigger problem.

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

Fair point on GitHub Gists 😄

As for the BitLocker keys, I should clarify I mean moving keys that have already been recovered or provided by the customer during support work, not using email as a key management system!

The bigger point was really moving small bits of text around quickly rather than managing files or code.

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LetSufficient5139@reddit

Nice try regarding the Bitlocker keys. Nobody is saying you use it to manage them, rather they should never be shared. Fullstop.

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

Haha, fair point 😄

The BitLocker key was probably a bad example. The real problem I was trying to solve was moving random bits of text between devices without signing into anything.

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Valdaraak@reddit

The real problem I was trying to solve was moving random bits of text between devices without signing into anything.

CopyParty.

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oubeav@reddit

Yeah. I winced at that one.

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MentalRip1893@reddit

i like how you can enter in any room name and join it with no further authentication, and that your service tells me whether its active or not. could be fun to fuzz!

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BCIT_Richard@reddit

I use Discord for most cases, I have an old account I lost the login details for so it became a clipboard dm.

Otherwise I use Gitea or Trilium for more project work.

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MentalRip1893@reddit

I just message myself on Teams

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soundies@reddit

I'd like to test it at home. Is there a way to selfhost it?

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BuffaloRedshark@reddit

network share or rdp copy/paste.

I'm not going to click that link but I wouldn't be surprised if it's blocked by our proxy. Even if it's not no way would I put anything company related into a random website

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

Fair call 😄

Corporate IT and field tech reality can be two very different worlds.

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Sure-Assignment3892@reddit

I'm pretty sure something like this would get me fired. Particularly the bitlocker key part

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

Fair enough. That's exactly why I posted here—to see how other people solve the same problem.

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Sure-Assignment3892@reddit

Here's the thing- I totally commend you for seeing a problem and creating a solution. And it's probably great for homelab/personal use.

But in the corporate world, our stuff is audited; and most of the time corporate prefers commercial solutions as the liability of a leak or something is on the vendor.

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

That's fair.

I wasn't really targeting enterprise workflows. It was more a tool born out of convenience after running into the same annoyance over and over as a field tech.

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TehBard@reddit

There is so many ways or tools to do that that I don't even know where to start.

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The_Lez@reddit

Well you've started. Might as well share or you just sound silly

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TehBard@reddit

Pastebin, also any of the selfhosted variants like Bytestash or Chiyogami Pushbullet, Join or anything similar Nextcloud, maybe with onlyoffice or any alternative to it Localsend

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The_Lez@reddit

Nice. Thanks

I wasn't aware of pastebin. I'll try that out.

Some of the other comments haven't really made sense based on OPs use case.

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TehBard@reddit

Pastebin is old men knowledge, if you don't know it it's probably a good sign :D that thing is 26y old

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The_Lez@reddit

It seems like people are not really understanding what you've done here. I'm starting to question how it is that they have never found themselves in a position where they would need a tool like this.

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

Thanks, I was starting to wonder if I was the only one 😄

Maybe it's one of those things where if you've never needed it, it seems pointless. But once you've spent enough time jumping between devices, customer PCs and server consoles, it starts making a lot more sense.

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token_curmudgeon@reddit

Guessing you weren't aware of syncthing (built on rsync). Even works on Windows.

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

I was aware of Syncthing, but honestly I was after something a bit different.

Syncthing is great when it's your own devices and you want ongoing sync. I was more trying to solve the "I'm standing in front of a random PC and need to move a PowerShell script right now" problem.

Different tools for different use cases really.

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token_curmudgeon@reddit

Makes sense. It's an amazing tool, but not in 100.00000% of situations.

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greendookie69@reddit

Pastebin?

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

Absolutely. Pastebin solves a lot of the same problems.

I just wanted something that felt more like a temporary shared clipboard than a paste archive.

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Public_Fucking_Media@reddit

I slack DM myself like god intended

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

🤣😂🤣

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anikansk@reddit

There is Send from Gmail (by Google) for Chrome. Its kinda ok, I use it to send myself notes to work (such as reddit posts) but emails suck and Ive just got a folder of 1400 unread emails now.

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

That's pretty much the problem I was trying to solve 😄

Every solution seemed to either involve logging into something, installing something, or creating another pile of stuff to clean up later.

Sometimes I just want to move a bit of text from A to B and then forget it ever existed.

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Mdi1981@reddit

Isn't that what git was build for?

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

Absolutely. You could also use OneDrive, Syncthing, email, Teams, Discord, Slack, Pastebin or a USB stick. I wasn't trying to replace any of those. I just wanted the quickest possible way to move a small piece of text between devices I want signed in on

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NeezDuts900@reddit

I can appreciate the effort and the willingness to share with us but can you take some time to explain how this is different from OneDrive, Syncthing, or Git? It seems like there are at least half a dozen solutions that do the exact same thing

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One_Painting134@reddit (OP)

That's fair.

I wasn't really trying to replace OneDrive, Syncthing or Git. They're all great tools.

I built TempMemo because I kept finding myself on customer PCs, server consoles and random machines where I just needed to move a script, command output or BitLocker key from one device to another without logging into anything.

It's more of a temporary scratchpad than a sync platform.

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sryan2k1@reddit

Git/onedrive

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VeryRealHuman23@reddit

No, I just put it on a flash drive or sharepoint/onedrive…email is awful for this.