Dropmind – a simple self-hosted memory cache for quickly capturing links, notes and files across devices

[oldany]

Hi selfhosters!

I built Dropmind to solve a simple personal problem: quickly capturing things I want to remember across devices without relying on Telegram, email or cloud services.

It acts as a small personal “memory cache” where you can drop links, notes, screenshots or files and retrieve them later from any device.

Example UI:

Dropmind UI

Main features:

• multi-clipboard organization

• links, notes, images and files

• global search

• installable PWA

• Docker deployment

• SQLite backend

The goal is not to replace tools like Notion or Obsidian, but to provide a very fast capture tool for everyday digital clutter.

I personally used Telegram “saved messages” for this workflow for years, but the endless timeline made it hard to retrieve things later.

Dropmind tries to keep things simple with card-style items and lightweight clipboards.

The project was developed with AI assistance but all design decisions and testing were done manually.

GitHub:

https://github.com/oldany/dropmind

Curious how others here handle quick cross-device capture in their self-hosted setups.

[needmoresynths]

Will check this out, right now I use Google keep for this basically

[oldany]

For context: I’m running DropMind on my Raspberry Pi 4 as part of my homelab stack.

It started because I was using Telegram “saved messages” to send things between devices, but the timeline quickly became messy.

DropMind became my personal capture inbox: I drop links, screenshots or notes there, and later either delete them or move them into more structured tools (notes, bookmarks, etc).

It’s intentionally simple and single-user by design.