My go to way of taking notes is sending messages to myself. Previously with Signal’s “Note to self” and now with my own channel with Element. It is fast way of taking notes, but horrible in long run since you cannot group notes or add tags or anything else that you would expect from good note taking tool. I have Nextcloud notes, but I still do it since I am used to it and it is fast way of syncing notes with mobile and PC. Anyone else has interesting ways of keeping notes?
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My wife does this, except she sends the messages to me
Yeah my husband does this to me too. One time he was camping and texted me just a person’s name with no other context. Like are you about to be murdered and this is the main suspect??
Her second, extra, brain? Makes sense to me. Also it’s written down in a place they will probably be
ingseeing an above average amount of the time.I do this to my gf, the world is truly balanced
This is how my wife operates too.
I’m all about Signal’s Note to Self.
I hate that it doesn’t send a notification though. I used the delay send feature on Textra for reminders but since switching to Signal it’s useless for that. I just want to send myself a message delayed by a few hours and get a notification when it sends. Only thing missing is the notification.
Came here to post that. Such a damn convenient way to send notes and links between my phone and desktop.
If you are interested try Localsend, its even less effort than sharing via a messenger and its peer to peer. You can enable auto downloads for trusted peers then it will be sent directly to a folder of your choice once you send from your phone.
Fantastic for that purpose.
Had a manager who used to send notes intended for himself to our team chat. Psychotic behaviour.
Every phone has a note app. No matter how stupid you are, it works. But if messages to yourself floats your boat: why not.
It’s helpful for me. It’s just a raw stream of thoughts and ideas. Most don’t go anywhere but it’s a good first stop to get an idea out of my head. Even if it turns out to be stupid I can read it later and react accordingly.
I too use Signal’s Note to Self like this, and I save links by sharing them with Standard Notes. That’s about 90% of all my notes right there.
I believe all messaging apps need a note to self option, make it be possible to enable from settings. I keep wanting to tell people to use note to self instead of randomly sending me stuff, but then I remember it’s a signal only thing.
Yeah lol. I’ll send myself SMS texts like 10 times a day
Someone needs to get the bright idea of an app that is a notes app designed to function like a messaging app.
You can “message yourself” immediately or set a time delay so that the message comes in after a given amount of time, or at a certain time, or under certain conditions. You can tell messages to repeat until you finally address the contents.
An extra-sinister idea would be an option to set messages to come in like a phone call. Make a message titled BOSS that repeated every morning. That’ll get you up.
You can delay messages to yourself with Signal if you long-press the send button. I also run my own email server, and schedule messages in the future to remind me about things.
It doesn’t send a notification though unfortunately.
There’s a program called Mine on the Google Play store that’s a note taking application designed to look like a social media app (like Twitter/Mastodon).
Looks cool. Somehow it’s not compatible with my device. Galaxy S22.
My phone can schedule send text messages. What’s better is if I use a number that isn’t a number I will get a text back saying it is an invalid recipient.
I use Simplenote for all my notes, tags, markup, syncs between all my devices. I really enjoy it!
I do. Also messages for the feds.
For quick notes I use unsaved Notepad++ whenever on Windows, and random text files on desktop on Linux made with KWrite.
For more organized notes I use self-hosted MediaWiki instance.
More people need to check out Notesnook. It’s FOSS, cross-platform, powerful, and has a sync server that can be self-hosted.
No thanks. I’ll just keep emailing myself.
Like a boss.
I am so in love with Notesnook. It’s been about a week and I fell hard. Great UI. Encrypted. Cross platform. Loads quickly. I wish markdown was native and not a shortcut though.
I’ve been using JTx board myself, but still have some things going into goggles notes which I can’t put my finger on why
This is worth a look - thanks!
Having a number of phone numbers in my private PBX available, I set one as an “audio note” system. I can call that number, there is no prompt but the beep, I can leave a message, and get it in my mail as an mp3.
unsent emails kept in the gmail drafts folder allows syncing notes across devices, and its searchable
Fuck yeah, my text app has a built in “Keep” contact. That bitch is loaded with messages.
Like OP used to I use Signal Note to Self. It’s handy moving stuff from mobile to desktop and the reverse as well.
Joplin for long term stuff. Both are backed up to my NAS / password protected 7z archives to Cloud automated by said NAS.
I use Google keep for stuff like that. Available everywhere I have a connection.
