# That link belongs on your phone. > Send links and notes from your computer to your phone in one click with a Chrome extension — or one curl from a terminal. Links arrive tappable and stay in synced history. Found something on your computer that you need on your phone? Push it. The Pocket Alert Chrome extension sends a link or a note from your browser toolbar to your iPhone or Android in one click — the link arrives tappable, and every note stays in a history synced across your devices. ## Three steps to your pocket 1. **Install & connect** — Install the Chrome extension and paste an API key from your account into its settings. 2. **Paste & send** — Drop a link or note into the send form in your toolbar and pick a device — or all of them. 3. **Tap it on your phone** — The push lands in under a second. Tap the link on your phone and it opens in the browser. ## Computer to phone, without the self-email The link is on the big screen and you need it on the small one. One click beats emailing yourself, and the note is still there next week. - **One click from the toolbar** — The send form lives in your browser toolbar. Paste, pick a device, send — drafts survive the popup closing. - **Links arrive tappable** — URLs in the message are tappable on the phone and open straight in your browser. - **Pick a device or all** — Send to the phone in your pocket or broadcast to every device on the account. - **Nothing gets lost** — Every link and note stays in a history synced across phone, web dashboard, and extension. - **Silent notes via API** — From the API or terminal, send with level silent — no sound, no vibration, just there in history. - **Terminal works too** — Not in Chrome? One curl from any terminal or the CLI sends the same push. ## Send your first link ### 1. Install the extension Add [Pocket Alert from the Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pocket-alert/hnknmapadalodjkmikfhjnmbbhpbhbdk) — it works in Chrome and Edge. See the [extension page](https://pocketalert.app/tools/extension) for a tour. ### 2. Connect your account Open the extension, go to Settings, and paste an API key from the [API Keys](https://pocketalert.app/account/apikeys) page. The key stays in your browser. ### 3. Paste and send Drop the link or note into the send form, choose one device or all, and hit send. It lands on your phone in under a second — tap the link to open it. ### 4. Or from any terminal ``` curl -X POST "https://api.pocketalert.app/v1/messages" \ -H "Token: YOUR_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"title":"Read later","message":"https://example.com/that-article","level":"silent"}' ``` Wrap it in a shell alias and `tophone "some text"` becomes muscle memory. The [CLI tool](https://pocketalert.app/tools/cli) does the same with less typing. ## FAQ ### How do I send a link from my computer to my phone? Install the Pocket Alert Chrome extension, paste the link or note into the send form in your toolbar, and pick a device — or broadcast to all of them. The push lands on your iPhone or Android in under a second, and the link in the message is tappable. ### Is it like a shared clipboard? Close, with one honest difference: nothing syncs automatically. You choose what to push — a link, an address, a code snippet, a note — and only that crosses over. Everything you send stays in a history that is synced across your phone, the web dashboard, and the extension. ### Can I send to just one device? Yes. The send form lets you target a single device or broadcast to every device on your account — useful when the link is for your personal phone, not the family tablet. ### Do links actually open on the phone? Yes. Open the message on your phone and any URL in it is a tappable link that opens straight in your browser. No copying character by character from a notification. ### What if I am not in Chrome? The extension runs in Chrome and Chromium browsers like Edge. Anywhere else, one curl does the same job — Linux terminal, a Firefox keyworded bookmark to the web dashboard, or the Pocket Alert CLI. Anything that can make an HTTP POST can send a note to your phone. ### Will every note buzz my phone? Notes sent from the extension arrive as regular notifications. When you send from a terminal or the API, add "level":"silent" and the note skips sound and vibration entirely — it just appears in your history for when you look. The free plan includes 50 messages a day, which is plenty of links.