ClipboardSender + Notemod-selfhosted (Overview)

What you can do (You can paste text on your iPhone that you copied on your Windows PC)

1. Copy text on Windows (Ctrl+C, etc.)
2. ClipboardSender automatically sends it as a note (can be toggled ON/OFF with a hotkey)
3. On iPhone, an iOS Shortcut fetches the latest note
4. Paste on iPhone

What you can do (You can paste text on your Windows PC that you copied on your iPhone)

1. Copy text on your iPhone
2. Run a shortcut on your iPhone to send the text to Notemod-selfhosted
   This shortcut can be triggered via Back Tap, the Action button, widgets, and more
3. Use the ClipboardSync hotkey on your PC to fetch the latest note and paste it

Notemod-selfhosted Help (v1.1.6)

ClipboardSync Help (v1.0.0)

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Background and motivation

This started from the frustration of copying text between an iPhone and a Windows PC.
With iPhone + Mac, clipboard sync is seamless and comfortable, but iPhone + Windows doesn’t provide the same experience. My initial motivation was to reduce that gap as much as possible.

For files such as images, videos, and audio, I still use my heavily customized BoZoN setup and I’m satisfied with it.
However, using BoZoN for text sharing felt too manual and required too many steps.

So I modified Notemod—originally designed to work only inside a single browser—to support syncing on shared hosting.
I operated it by keeping Notemod open in the browser on both iPhone and Windows. This helped, but keeping browsers open all the time was still a burden.

To reduce that burden further, I enabled sending text directly to Notemod via an API from iOS Shortcuts.
Once the API was in place, the iPhone no longer needed Notemod open in a browser, which was a clear improvement.

Next, I wanted Windows to send copied text automatically at the moment of copying, so I started developing a clipboard-sender app.
After completing the sender app, Windows also no longer needs Notemod open in a browser in most cases, making the workflow significantly smoother.

At the moment, the app mainly supports sending in the direction of Windows → Notemod (→ iPhone).
To receive text from iPhone → Windows, you still need to open Notemod in a browser on Windows.
But since the most common use case is “copy on Windows, paste on iPhone,” the overall experience has improved a lot in practice.

Two-way syncing remains a future goal, but for now I’d like to share this working setup as a practical milestone.