promtly.dev

One click, straight into the box.

The board already copies. The bridge adds the step a browser is not permitted to take: focusing the window behind you and pressing Ctrl+V. It is one file, it runs on your machine, and it goes away the moment you close it.

Looking for the bridge…
  1. 1

    Get the file

    One script, no dependencies, nothing installed. Read it before you run it — that is rather the point of it being one small file.

  2. 2

    Run it

    Put both files in the same folder and double-click promtly-bridge.cmd — or from a terminal in that folder:

    node promtly-bridge.mjs

    Leave the window open. It prints a line for every paste, so you can see exactly what it did and where it went.

  3. 3

    Fire a pad

    The badge in the board’s top bar turns green and names the window a click will land in. Put your chat window in front, switch to the board, click a tile: the text appears in the chat box.

    Back to the board

What it can and cannot do

  • It binds to 127.0.0.1 only — nothing off your machine can reach it, and it makes no outbound connections at all.
  • It answers requests only from promtly.dev (a browser will not let another site forge that), and it only ever receives the text of the tile you just clicked.
  • It targets whatever window Alt+Tab would have reached. If Windows refuses the window switch, it declines to send Ctrl+V rather than risk pasting into the wrong place — you will see “press Ctrl+V” instead.
  • Windows only for now. On macOS or Linux it starts and says so plainly.