# Do you send emails to yourself? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829 "2023-09-28T18:14:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/21 "2023-09-28T20:51:55Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Shoot, I call myself on the phone. > > But I often don’t answer I’ll answer, but I get so irritated saying “WHAT did you say?” back and forth to myself that it’s seldom worth the effort. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/22 "2023-09-28T20:53:35Z")
I’ve not emailed myself as a reminder (just as easy to slap something in my calendar or set a timer) but count me amongst the group who uses self-email to transfer things around machines. Usually my phone and main desktop. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/23 "2023-09-28T21:10:54Z")
I often send myself photos from my phone so I can use them in emails to others. I only have one email address on my phone and it’s not the one I use for casual/fun stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/24 "2023-09-28T21:27:24Z")
I have, though not often—most often from my work computer to my home computer, or vice versa, as a reminder to myself or as a way of sending a file from one computer to another. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/25 "2023-09-28T21:36:01Z")
There’s a different function for emails? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/26 "2023-09-28T21:42:41Z")
Nearly every day: I create the smartboard files I’ll use in class on my desk computer, but then I need to put them on the computer that runs the smartboard. And emailing myself is the easiest way to do that. I’ll also sometimes send things from my work email to my personal email, or vice-versa. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/27 "2023-09-28T22:02:01Z")
I recently updated my resume on my laptop, then emailed it to my gmail account where I can always access it from Google’s infinite server storage. I’m tech savvy like that. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/28 "2023-09-28T22:10:07Z")
I email myself all the time, if there are digital images/info that I need transmitted from my smartphone to my computer or vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/29 "2023-09-29T02:22:34Z")
I pass stuff from one platform to another using my Gmail account but I don’t usually bother emailing it as I have my email account open on all of them. I just create a draft and save it. Mostly I do it when I end up with links that I want to use elsewhere. I do use [braintoss](https://braintoss.com/) on my phone when I am out and about though. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/30 "2023-09-29T10:00:42Z")
Anything I want to print, (and that’s TONS of stuff!), has to be sent to the desktop computer, to do so. So, yeah, all the time. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/31 "2023-09-29T10:33:24Z")
Yep 1. Reminders – usually from work email to home 2. Things to print from home to work (my home printer is broken) Sometime my work computer says I have unread mail when I do not. I sometimes send myself an email and then read it and that clears the notification. Brian ---
**Author:** ![ColdBrew50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@ColdBrew50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdBrew50)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/32 "2023-09-29T10:53:02Z")
Yeah, exactly as several mentioned above: photos taken from the phone, or various other items of interest. All the time. Not notes in text form, though. Pencil and paper. Sometimes I’ll go adventurous and use pen and paper. For brief notes or reminders. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/33 "2023-09-29T11:05:47Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > I transfer pictures from my phone to my laptop via email. Yeah, I do this. Rarely, I will send a reminder email. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/34 "2023-09-29T11:14:31Z")
Not as reminders but sometimes if I want to transfer a photo from my phone to a computer in a hurry, I will email it to myself, rather than digging out a cable, or uploading it to the cloud and back. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/35 "2023-09-29T13:02:58Z")
All this cloud upload / download stuff happens automatically and not quite real time. _If_ you set things up that way. Folks may well have their reasons for choosing not to. But everyone should be aware that with any reasonably modern phones, tablets, and computers, full-featured auto sync everything is just a click / tap or two away. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/36 "2023-09-29T13:15:44Z")
That only works if everything you use is in one ecosystem and one ID. My work ID is never going to synch with my personal computer. So when i want to have a copy of my record of what continuing Ed I’ve done this year, i email it to myself. For that matter, my Apple laptop and my Android phone don’t synch. Yes, i can access texts and my Google drive and my Google calendar on both, so i have a variety of options of “where to put something i want to transfer”. I often find email the easiest. (Reminders all go in the calendar, though. Not email.) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/37 "2023-09-29T13:40:35Z")
Almost every day (email to myself). I’m a teacher, and I send myself the power point presentations for that day’s classes, as attached files to be opened or downloaded on the classroom’s desktop computer. I’ll also sometimes email myself a NY Times article or the like, to remember to enjoy it later. (Occasionally, I’ll text myself some reminder, but these tend to get lost in the shuffle of life.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/38 "2023-09-29T14:02:55Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > That only works if everything you use is in one ecosystem and one ID Agree about the one ID. I’ve tried to keep work & personal firewalled from each other. Which means crossing that divide is sometimes bridged by email. But I’ve had good luck w my Windows, Android, and iPad playing nicely together. Of course the Apple products are the most resistant to playing nicely. But it’s mostly doable. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/39 "2023-09-29T14:32:01Z")
I email or text myself daily. Mostly from my work computer so I can have something on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829/40 "2023-09-29T14:39:06Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > All this cloud upload / download stuff happens automatically and not quite real time. _If_ you set things up that way. If you _want_ things that way. I generally don’t want all my photos and videos uploaded to my cloud storage (I can’t afford to use cloud storage at the rate I am taking photos and recording video) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-send-emails-to-yourself/990829.md?page=3)