Everyone emails themself stuff, that's normal. The weird part is how often will you ever need to email it specifically from your laptop, but it's already on your phone? If it's on your phone and you need to email it to someone, couldn't you just email from your phone?
replyBiggest use case is needing to send a work email but only having the photo on your phone (and you don't have work email on your phone).
replyHave you tried using the Gmail app? It's missing a whole bunch of features. For example, you can't even insert hyperlinks with custom text. For images, I often don't want to send an image at its full resolution. Rescaling images is a task that's much easier to do on a laptop.
replyIn that case, have I got a laptop for you...
replyOh, I use use AirDrop to myself for this. Yes, given my photo library syncs to iCloud, just opening Photos seems like it makes sense on a fast WAN which I sort-of do have, but of course, iCloud syncs only happen when the device decides the mood is just right, and can't be triggered manually, because I guess that would just be 'clutter' in the UI.
replyWhat drives me absolutely nuts about AirDrop is that it's only device-to-device even if devices are on the same WAN.
replyMy wife and I have home offices at opposite sides of the house with hardwired desktops and Wi-fi APs, but we can't AirDrop to each other as we're out of range for it.
KDE Connect may work for you. (You don't have to use KDE.)
replyI remember in late 10s I could just connect my iPhone to a windows machine and the photos folder would be right there, mounted, with the typical iOS filenames for each picture. Is this a false memory? Maybe I was on a Mac and just forgot?
replyI'm pretty sure you can still do that, you can at least with Android phones, but it does require a physical cable.
replyThat's mostly an iPhone problem. Plugging in an Android phone still works, and wireless exchange with QuickShare also works on most devices. With Google reverse engineering Airdrop, I hope they can get the Android <-> macOS experience to finally work correctly soon as well.
replyPhotos taken on iPhone are automatically synchronized with iCloud.. I guess you can just go to iCloud.com and download them on your PC?
replyIf you want to send a photo to your friend from your iPhone, just click on the photo and click the "share" button, then you have many options, including sending it via Email..
What am I missing?
The synchronization is opaque - more than once I checked for photos and they weren't uploaded yet. Also downloading stuff is very, very slow compared to wired transfers, and logging into Apple anything on your web browser is a huge pain in the ass.
replyMy only real use of Google Keep is as a cross-device clipboard.
replyLocalSend works really well across platforms in a LAN, no uploading to some server required.
replyI'm super techy but I admit that I just use Signal to send me a "Note to self" whenever I need a file from my phone on my computer quickly. For images I just use immich, but texting myself is honestly the quickest way for files because the experience is indeed terrible.
replySame here with the Telegram "Saved Messages" ( the same stuff as Signal's )
replyI personally just have a discord with myself as the only member. With their webhooks API you can even automate the PC side.
replyI emailed myself many times to transfer some files between phone and computer. I would say at least once every week.
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replyIt is a solved problem
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ismartcoding.plain/
replyThere is also localsend, but plainapp needs to run in only one device.
I've been using pairdrop.net (fork of snapdrop, which got bought out) a lot recently. Only needs a web browser on either end, and doesn't take any prepwork.
replyCan be self-hosted, if that's a concern.
You can just use Dropbox or equivalent.
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