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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s a different function for emails?
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.
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.
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.
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 on my phone when I am out and about though.
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.
Yep
- Reminders – usually from work email to home
- 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
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.
Yeah, I do this. Rarely, I will send a reminder email.
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.
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.
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.)
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.)
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.
I email or text myself daily. Mostly from my work computer so I can have something on my phone.
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)