 This video is going to be a little bit of a mess Because I want to do everything real time without editing so you see that I'm actually doing it and I'm not fudging stuff And it's also gonna be me complaining about people so quite often I will text somebody something a link to a web page for example, and they'll ask me to email it to them So they can open it on their computer Which drives me crazy Because if you're not already getting your text messages on your computer I don't know what you're doing with your life. No seriously though It's it's so inconsert to ask me to email it to you Because even even if you don't have your text messages going to your computer if they go to your phone you should be able to copy and paste that to your computer and People won't realize Your phone is a computer. I say that people go. Oh, yeah, well kind of know your phone is computer Almost everything you do on your desktop computer You should be able to do on your phone I say almost everything because these all these phones have stupid permissions on them that prevents certain things from happening But 99% of what you do on your desktop. You should be able to do on your phone using the same software not different applications, but I'm gonna give you some examples. I'm gonna use KDE connect But also realize there's lots of options out there. In fact, if you're using an Android device And I'm not telling you what software to use but the default message application that Google provides You open that up for texting you open up a web browser Go to a page and scan the QR code and all your texts automatically go to that computer in the web browser And you can reply and read all your texts, but we're gonna like KDE connect and again I'm gonna be bringing the phone up here a lot. It's gonna be kind of messy, but I want to do this all real time So I'm recording my screen. I'm recording with the camera here. Let me open up my gallery here and open up a picture I took a few minutes ago. So this is a picture of me, right and Pretty much everything you have on your phone. You have a little share button, right the little share button I'm gonna press that and it brings up options And if you look right here, one of them There's a little black icon with a K gear the KDE gear So that's showing me different devices I have on the local network that are running KDE connect that I've linked to and All I have to do is watch this. I click that Boom and you see how fast that happened. It is now on my desktop computer. It goes into whatever folder you set up I have to go to my downloads folder and click on that. There's that photo so I can send Any file to my computer just by clicking the share button whatever program where I'm a file manager my my photo manager Whatever I can share. Here's another example that watch watch this. I'm gonna go to my website Filmsbychrist.com right so we're on my website here And you want to share this website with somebody, right? So you click your little menu there and down at the bottom you have that same little share icon right there Right watch what happens when I click that I click that and it brings up a menu here and one of the options Is this KDE connect again watch what happens when I click it as soon as I click it boom on my desktop It opens up that web page in my default web browser That's all I have to do if there's a URL here. I text you a URL you open up Go all I want to say looks at my desktop share boom. It's on your desktop There's no reason not to do this or something similar. Here's another example I am going to copy some text So let me go ahead and highlight some text on my phone from my website It could be texting anything in a in a Word document a PDF a website So I have that highlighted I'm gonna click well if I click share Again it brings up the KDE connect Right here. I'm gonna click that and it opened up a text editor on my computer I put that text into the text editor, but let me highlight it again. I'm gonna highlight it and This time instead of share, I'm gonna say copy. Let's say on my phone. I want to copy it for something I click copy so it's copied and I'm doing whatever on my phone now Look, oh, you know what? I also want to put that on my on my computer. I can pull down my Notification tabs up here And I don't know if this isn't focus KDE connect you have two options here You have send clipboard and send file so send file it opens up your file manager You can choose a file and send it just like we did you know sharing it with the image gallery But the send clipboard if I click that Send clipboard now It's in the clipboard on my desktop all I have to do is hit paste It copied whatever text it could be a whole paragraph a whole page worth the text I say send clipboard. I just paste it into whatever program it I'm in over here You can send text you can receive text all my notifications show up on my my desktop computer If there's a URL in there, I can choose the URL what other future? Oh, so it also works the other way So I can open up the KDE the KDE connect Application and you can see there's some menus in here So one cent file which we've already looked over slide show remote So I guess if you're doing some sort of slide show you can use it as remote media controls So if you're using certain media players, you can control it But the two I use the most is down here run command and Remote input so what's run command so you you can type in whatever commands you can run on your computer So anything anything you can do at your desktop computer or laptop you can add as a command in here And it's a single button So Whatever I want to I can use this as a remote boom run this command run this command run this command But you also have this you click remote input and it brings up this thing We're just words on it, but watch this watch my screen over here. Where's my I mean I got two screens Let me bring it over here. Look look. I'm controlling this. It's now a mouse Touchpad right I can click on stuff and I can click on here. I can bring up the keyboard and Now I can start typing I can use my phone as a keyboard. I don't use the keyboard option very much, although I could I Do use the the mouse option a lot, especially if I'm over at my scanner It's a network scanner So I fly up my mouse over here to the scan button I go over there I lay a page down because it's not a feed scanner put a page down Just tap the screen it scans it put the next page on tap the screen So from across the house I can scan without having to go to the scanner and come back and press buttons before that I actually had a remote script that I would SSH in and run, but this is so much easier just click in that So again, Katie is just one option. I feel like there's more that I can show you There's definitely more that it does. I believe it has functionality access your camera and stuff like that But I haven't really looked into that it has had text message application Options for a while. They just added SMS so you can send photos and videos I guess I haven't played with that yet. Sometimes it can be a little quirky Again, Android devices have weird permissions. So sometimes things don't work like you would want them to you have to Allow a lot of things when you install this and don't get me going on how stupid App and application specific permissions are but If you don't have some way To move stuff. I mean literally if I text you something and you want to see on your computer And you can't do that. You should at least be able to copy that URL put it in email and email it to yourself But you're complicating things and that's what people do. They think doing Simple things like this are confusing, but then they'll do stupid stuff like that Listen to me if you're not using kde connect or something like that you should start and all your devices should be connected I don't care if I'm at my laptop desktop tablet or phone. I can access all my files from all those devices Securely not going through some media. I mean if you want to set up some service you want to use Google Drive I mean that's that's your call But there's no reason to do that when you can sync things automatically and you don't have to sync things You can just access your files Remotely, there's so many different ways to do it. This video isn't about how to do it It's just showing you that you can do it and again, it might sound like I'm complaining but People who don't do this but then expect me to take my time to send you messages twice I know it doesn't sound like much, but it's annoying especially since some of the people that I've talked to about this I go, you know, I can show you how to get your text messages And oh, I don't want my text messages on my computer because then they're gonna they're gonna be popping up and bothering me Personally, I'd rather them show up on my computer when I'm sitting there Then I have to pull out my phone and see who's texting me every single time and the thing is you can silence it at any point Thing is you're getting your text. Why not get them at the machine you're working at instead of having to stop and go to another machine constantly Anyway Might sound like I'm complaining a bit, but this is how I feel and I don't know if people just don't realize this is an option But again, your phone is a computer and all your computers should be connected. We're all connected to the internet We're all connected to a local network and again, they're gonna be like, oh, don't use cloud services Which I'm 100% for cloud services that you run yourself, but that's not even what I'm talking about I'm just talking about direct communication No reason not to especially if you're on the same local network But even if you're remotely you should be able to access your files. It's not that hard Literally Katie Katie you install Katie connect on your computer. It's in the repositories. You install it on your phone You say, you know link these devices they share a security key and then everything's encrypted all the stuff It does back and forth. So thanks for watching me rant about this for a little bit, but that's it I hope that you have a great day