Guides

In-depth guides
for working across devices.

Practical walk-throughs for the specific things we built MoveMyWork to solve. No listicles, no AI summaries — just plain guidance written by the people who made the tool.

Clipboard sync

Guide · 8 min read

How to sync your clipboard between Mac and Windows

The built-in options are half-finished. Here's the complete rundown: iCloud's limits, Microsoft's version, and what to do when neither is enough.

Guide · 5 min read

How to sync your clipboard between iPhone and Windows

iOS doesn't allow background clipboard sync — anyone claiming otherwise is overselling. The honest setup: automatic on Windows, one quick step on the phone.

Guide · 5 min read

How to sync your clipboard between Android and Mac

Google and Apple don't bridge this gap, and neither side plans to. Moving text, links and files between the two — with a history you can search later.

Sharing files

Guide · 6 min read

How to share a file with a password-protected link

Email attachments are capped, Drive passwords are an afterthought, WeTransfer's are paid. A walk through the sharing trade-offs and how to do it right.

Guide · 4 min read

How to set an expiry on a shared file link

Links you shared months ago are still alive in old chat threads. Expiry, view limits and revocation fix that — here's how they work, free.

Guide · 4 min read

How to share a file without the recipient creating an account

"Sign in to view this file" is where sharing goes to die. Which tools force sign-ups on your recipient, and the two-click way to skip all of it.

Guide · 6 min read

How to transfer files from your phone to your laptop without a cable

AirDrop needs Apple, LocalSend needs the same Wi-Fi, email needs patience. The honest map of the options — including the cross-network one.

Calendar & workflow

Guide · 5 min read

How to see Outlook and Google Calendar in one view

Work in Outlook, life in Google, clashes in neither until it's too late. One combined read-only view — deliberately not two-way sync, and better for it.

Guide · 4 min read

How to add a website to your iPhone Home Screen

Four taps in Safari turn any site into an icon next to your real apps — and PWAs open full-screen like the real thing. With MoveMyWork as the worked example.

Guide · 4 min read

How to stop texting yourself links

The WhatsApp chat with yourself is a rational system — until you're scrolling for Tuesday's link behind the weekend's photos. A calmer flow.

Organising projects

Guide · 5 min read

One room per project

The method: what earns a room, what stays on the clipboard, the thirty-second setup, and what to do when the project is done.

Guide · 6 min read

How to organise a house move in one place

Mortgage offer in email, solicitor's letter in downloads, the sofa in a tab. Four folders, the to-dos that need dates, and a whiteboard for where the sofa fits.

Guide · 5 min read

How to plan a trip in one place

Bookings, the ideas pile, a packing list with dates and a rough itinerary on the whiteboard - planned on the laptop, used on the phone.

Guide · 4 min read

Stop keeping notes in your chat with yourself

Three hundred messages from you, to you. Two calmer habits: a clipboard for things on the move, and a room per subject for things you're keeping.

Your data

Guide · 3 min read

How to export your clipboard history

Any tool holding your data should let you leave with it. Here, leaving is one button and a zip file — clips and files, in normal formats.

Guide · 6 min read

Is clipboard sync safe?

What a clipboard tool should never do, the questions to ask any vendor, and our own answers — including the honest limits, said out loud.

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