If i understand correctly , you want to share some state across two different views of your application. There are many ways to achieve this, as you stated above you can use a service.
var app = angular.module('myApp', []);
app.service('myService', function(){
  var data;
  this.setData = function(d){
    data = d;
  }
  this.getData = function(){
    return data;
  }
});
app.controller('myCtrl1', function($scope, myService){
 $scope.data = myService.getData();
 //do something
});
app.controller('myCtrl2', function($scope, myService){
 $scope.data = myService.getData();
 //do something
});
Services are singleton, are instantiated once and then cached by angular, everytime you need that specific data you can inject the service and call the methods provided.