Clipboard

Select text in the deck (drag with a finger or the mouse) and it lands on the clipboard of every device looking at the deck, phone and PC at once (OSC 52). Pasting into the deck works as usual (Termux: long-press → Paste; PC: Ctrl+Shift+V).

phosphor clip notes.txt          # a file onto that clipboard
git log -1 | phosphor clip       # a pipe
phosphor clip --save out.txt     # paste, then Ctrl-D: into a file

Up to ~70 KB: Termux drops more than ~100 KB (Android’s limit). Move bigger things through ~/fleet. Some desktop terminals don’t support OSC 52.

From yazi: c already opens a chord that copies the path, the URL, the filename… two more join it, on the hovered file, no shell tab needed: c t for phosphor clip (its contents, onto every screen’s clipboard) and c s for phosphor send (the file itself – see below). phosphor gen writes both into ~/.config/yazi/keymap.toml; a keymap.toml of your own is left alone, same as theme.toml.

The paste side is always the plain Android/desktop clipboard, not a Phosphor-specific spot: on the phone it’s a long-press → Paste in whatever app you’re pointed at, not something you’ll find “inside” Phosphor. And it’s live, not stored: the screen you’re pasting into has to be attached to the deck at the moment you copy, same as the drag-select above.

A real file

The clipboard only ever moves text – a 70 KB cap, and even under that, what lands on your phone is pasted text, not a file your gallery or a “share to” sheet can open. For an actual file, of any size or type, saved as itself:

phosphor send notes.md               # one real file
phosphor send report.pdf --timeout 60

It opens a one-time link on your tailnet (or your LAN, without one) behind a random token, prints it with a QR to scan, and shuts itself down the moment someone downloads it – or after the timeout (default 180s) if nobody does. Nothing is kept running, nothing is stored anywhere: it’s the deck-native version of the throwaway “open a port, send the file, close it” script you’d otherwise reach for by hand. Scan the QR from your phone’s camera (or curl the link) and it saves as a real file, e.g. to Downloads. The link is also printed as a clickable hyperlink (OSC 8: a tap or click opens it, if your terminal supports it) and copied to the clipboard of every screen looking at the deck, so on a phone it’s paste into the browser, no scanning or retyping. From yazi, c s does the same to the hovered file.