My wife does this, except she sends the messages to me

I'm all about Signal's Note to Self.

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.

I do. Also messages for the feds.

Better yet: Send messages to random people in your contact list who have no clue what you‘re talking about. That way you can even categorize your notes by importance.

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 make group chats with only me as a member to organize by subject.

Note to self got too cluttered, but it continues as my junk drawer for notes.

Note taking apps are a separate stop so i will never use them for quick or temporary work. They're for long term stuff like recipes and fitness tracking.

Ohh, I definitely prefer to send myself a text, especially since I can schedule it to send when I need a reminder at a specific time for something.

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.

I recently did a project.

Self-hosted Ntfy as communication, python bot in a container. If you say remember something It drops it into a text file verbatim. If you say remind me, It loads the text file into an ollama AI RAG and queries it with whatever you asked it to remind you. At the moment it can take a good 5 seconds to get back to you.

Then I added a grocery list and a separate bot that handles scheduling reminders. Remind me in 20 minutes to feed the dog. Forget this item. Remind me on the 20th of every April that it's fu's birthday.

At the moment, it's based on keywords and if you don't specify a keyword it just asks the model directly. I'm thinking about having it send all requests through the model and giving the model a prompt that has a determines what you're trying to do and translates that to a keyword that the bot can act on.

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.

Previously I used pushbullet but now signal note to self

Yeah lol. I'll send myself SMS texts like 10 times a day

unsent emails kept in the gmail drafts folder allows syncing notes across devices, and its searchable

More people need to check out Notesnook. It’s FOSS, cross-platform, powerful, and has a sync server that can be self-hosted.

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.