Do you text yourself?

Question

I tend to text myself reminders and small notes. I prefer to text myself than use a traditional notes app. Are there any others that do this or just me? 😅

Md Salehin Khan · Accepted Answer

Sometimes I email my self

Jason Piao · Answer

@brandarmy same happens to me! Ill text myself and be surprised to get a notification haha. Do you often check back to your texts? Sometimes I forget to check what I sent myself haha

Milan Maheshwari · Answer

I do this for bookmarking something- articles, links, etc. to check later.

Harri Arain · Answer

I'm sure there are many who do this, I do this for keeping tabs on my personal notes. it reminds me of stuff I have forgotten. Although I must admit it hasn't improved my scenario as of yet :P

Ramon Mendez · Answer

I text myself typically throughout the day different ideas, marketing concepts, sales ideas, tag lines, etc. Have been doing this for years. I'm an idiot so I will still sometimes text myself and actually get surprised that I got a text, even though I'm the one to send it. ha

Jeremy Cleverly · Answer

I email myself each morning; not sure if that counts.  I'm a horrible sleeper, but the upside is that I often have creative thoughts come to me while I'm laying in bed.  In order to not forget them I keep an open draft of an email addressed to myself on my phone each night as I go to bed...if I think of something I quickly add a sentence to the email - just enough to jog by memory in the morning.

Jordan King · Answer

I text myself when I am away from my pen-and-paper journal and then I transcribe later at home. This eliminates the awkwardness of writing in public (it just looks like I'm texting) and I don't have to worry about losing my journal because I was carrying it around with me.

Ryan Farrell · Answer

I do this also when I see a good article I want to read but don't have the time.

Alex Hartnett · Answer

To do this, I use Trello and ToDo List, they have all the necessary functionality, and it is also convenient to work with someone but I rarely use this with someone, I just like organized messages

Milan Maheshwari · Answer

@jasonpiao I don't check them explicitly tbh. But anytime I remember I had to... I know the links are on my messages.

Jeremy Cleverly · Answer

@jeremy_cleverly @jasonpiao Hi Jason - Yes, I usually hit send on the email as I get up each morning.  Once I'm at work, it is then the email I open first. I usually then compile the notes into my list of things to knock out.

Corinne Pelletier · Answer

I often do that to have quick acces to documents from both my phone and my computer (using apple)

Ann · Answer

I do this all the time haha Writing down something that I'm pretty sure I'll forget soon, so I won't forget XD mainly use our own product https://zenkit.com/en/todo/

Paul Woodthorpe · Answer

I often send things I need via Facebook Messenger to myself. Usually media such as videos or pictures that I have on my phone and I need it on my laptop for a project. I will send via FB Messenger rather than wait for it to backup to Google Photos or mess around trying to send wirelessly.

Another use of this is not for myself but whenever my wife gets ill or in pain and takes painkillers, she often forgets when she has them and used to take to writing them down on tops documents or newspapers and losing them. So I got her to text me an SMS every time she took painkillers so that there is a digital record of what she took and the time so if she ever forgot she can refer to the text message and see. That has often proved useful.

As much as note-taking apps are great I do find they are often too complicated with tagging, categories, options, colours, etc. Sometimes it is handy to just have a single list that offers a text input, media upload option and nothing else. So you can just write/upload something for later reference and it is in a long timeline that you just scroll back through to find what you want, similar to iMessage or Messenger or Whatsapp.

Do you text yourself?

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