Notes on moving text around.
Short pieces on sharing text and code without an account — what breaks, why, and how we build around it.
Who writes this: the ShareNotes team — the same people who build and run the tool. ShareNotes has been live since December 2025, and every post here comes out of something we shipped, broke, or had to reason through ourselves. Where a competitor is named, we re-check the claim against their own site before publishing and date it.
Pushbullet still works. Its Chrome extension doesn't.
Not a shutdown — a Manifest V3 casualty and four years of silence. What actually broke, what people wanted from it anyway, and how to move text between devices with nothing installed.
Send text from your phone to your laptop — no app, no email, no login
The three workarounds everyone uses and what each one costs, plus two that leave nothing behind: a link short enough to retype, and a six-character clipboard room.
Share a password-protected note without creating an account
Password protection is a paywall favourite and one of the least complicated things to give away. The two PIN modes, which one you want, and the one thing a PIN will not do.
Memorable URLs vs. random IDs — what happens to your shared links a year later
Why paste links rot, why random IDs make it worse, and what a human-readable sharing link buys you a year down the line.
How ShareNotes clipboard rooms work — and why we didn't build a separate app
A clipboard room is just a note whose slug you type instead of click. Why the room code IS the address, what that bought us, and the two things it cost.
Share text straight from your terminal
Pipe a diff, a log or a stack trace into a shareable URL with one curl command. Piping patterns, a shell function worth stealing, CI usage, and what you should not send this way.
Why link-preview bots silently destroy self-destructing notes
Paste a one-time link into Slack and it is often already burned before the recipient clicks. The mechanism, the fix, and the trap inside the fix.
5 ways developers share code without a GitHub Gist
Gist is the reflex, not always the right call. Five alternatives — no-login pastes, self-destructing notes, live buffers, branches, sandboxes — and when each fits.