Emailing notes to yourself is not the most efficient way to transfer information between your phone and your desktop computer. If I were to do this on my phone, I’d have to perform the following steps:

1. Select text and copy it to the clipboard.
2. Tap home screen button.
3. Tap on Mail.
4. Hit “compose” button.
5. Enter my own email in the To: field.
6. Paste the contents of the clipboard into the body.
7. Hit “send,” and if I don’t include a Subject line, tap on a dialog box to confirm that I want to send it anyway.
8. Go to gmail.com on my desktop.
9. Open the email.
10. Select the text and copy it to the clipboard.
11. Do what I want with it.

Thanks to cloud- and WiFi-based solutions, there are more efficient ways to move text. I have outlined a number of solutions to this problem below.

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