I suggest using sshfs instead of using something like sftp://; It's a small package, install it using:

sudo apt install sshfs

Then mount your remote machine using something like:

mkdir ~/sshfs

sshfs [email protected]:/home ~/sshfs

• /home is the path you want to mount, you can use whatever path you want.

Now you have access to your files using your default file manager, you can even play music/video etc using your default applications and work with your files on remote machine in real time.

After you were finished run:

fusermount -u ~/sshfs

to unmount the mount point.

The advantage over sftp is that you don't need to move files to your local machine to edit/run/play them you can use them as they are located on your local machine.