Send messages to yourself
Need to jot down a note, set a reminder, or save something important? Jonathan Parkyn explains why your messaging app is the best tool for the job
Talking to yourself might seem to be the first sign of madness (it isn’t, by the way), but messaging yourself is one of the smartest things you can do. Why? Because it’s a fast and simple way to send yourself notes, reminders, links, photos, files and pretty much anything else you want to be able to access later.
Yes, you could use a dedicated note-taking or reminder app. But that would involve finding the app, working out how to use it and setting up a new note or reminder every time. Sending messages, by contrast, is something we all do every day – just tap, type and send.
Messaging apps also make it easy to find what you want when you need it. Conversations are instantly searchable. Your chat history is displayed in chronological order and you get visual previews of links, photos, documents and other attachments you’ve sent yourself.
Many of the best messaging services work across different platforms, so you can send yourself something on one device and pick it up on another. And, as we demonstrated in Issue 703 (page 62) you can back up and print messages you send yourself.
Messaging tools are cottoning on to the benefits of self-chatting, and many have now added features to make the whole process easier. We’ll outline these, and explain how to stay on top of the emails you send yourself.