Do you send emails to yourself?

Or text messages to yourself? To remind yourself to do something?

I suspect I’m not the only one.

All the time. But mostly I’m sending info from my work computer to my home computer (reminder that i have a meeting in the middle of a day I’m otherwise taking off, for instance) or using my email as a “clipboard” so i can cut and paste from one system to another.

Too new, radical, and high-tech.

I talk to myself.

Dan

Occasionally. More to have certain information that I’m likely to forget available in an online format. For example, I emailed myself the combination to my fire safe and gun safe so that if/when I forget them, I can recover it anyplace I log in.

I’ll also do so with parking places - like if I’m on a trip and my car is at an airport parking lot - and for the same reason. If I lose my phone, I can still get it from the email on my cell-enabled tablet.

When I was working I did that on occasion. Sometimes I’ll email something to my phone as a simple transfer method but these days I mostly use texts for that.

I transfer pictures from my phone to my laptop via email.

That one of the things I was thinking of when I described using it as a clip board.

If I have to write a long text, and I’m at my computer (which is pretty much all day), I’ll type out the text on the computer (because using a keyboard is so much easier & faster), email it to myself, open it on the phone, then cut & paste it into a text.

Been doing it since the 70’s upon the recommendation of Steely Dan. Send it off in a letter to yourself.

Likewise, I occasionally use an email to myself to transfer a file as an attachment. One situation where I do this regularly is on hotel lobby computers when I want to print something, because most of them now won’t let you plug in a flash drive.

So was I literally, using email, though not email defined as it is now. Sometimes a chain of computers was needed to transfer data through different utilities. I would set up basic messaging capabilities for people to communicate remotely before standard means were available. In addition there were more formal person-to-person messaging systems available in systems and I may have sent myself some messages that way to pick up some info at a different location. At 300 baud it was often easier to just carry a tape or a floppy from one place to another, or just call on the phone.

If I am setting up a Zoom meeting, I put the meeting subject, time, and day in the email subject line, then send the link to the other folks and to myself, then pin the email at the top of my In box to act as a reminder

I used to do so to send things from my phone to my computer. It just works.

But now I figured out I don’t actually have to send them, unless I think I’ll need a reminder. I can just put them in my drafts.

And I have actually gotten some of the other share options to work in some cases.

I use the calendar app on my phone for reminders. But I use email if I want to send a link or attachment to my phone and/or home PC.

All the time. Send attachments from one work email to another. But it usually takes too long for the email to actually be delivered so I generally just extract the attachment from the “Sent” folder of the first email.

Frequently, especially when I’m out and about.

I have an Android phone and use Google Messages: it’s a web-based service that syncs with my phone’s text messaging app and lets me send and receive texts via my computer. I :heart: it.

Shoot, I call myself on the phone.

But I often don’t answer.

mmm

Almost never. Any textual info that needs to be transferred from phone to PC or vice versa is simply pasted into OneNote, where it magically appears on all my other devices quickly. Pictures likewise auto-flow between devices in OneDrive.

Back when I had work and home machines and tried to minimize their connectedness, then email was sometimes the best channel.

If I email myself (outlook) from my phone. My phone changes my name on email to “Note to Self” on my app widget. My desktop version of Outlook keeps it as my name. I assume a lot of people write random notes while on the move and use desk time to organize them into some logic.

I also email georeferenced pdf maps to myself for the Avenza app.

This. Transferring smallish files between Windows 11 and Android I’ll use Email. Larger files/folders go through my synced Google Drive.