How to text yourself on Whatsapp and Telegram

Texting yourself on WhatsApp and Telegram can be extremely useful, especially when you are on your PC and need to send a file on your phone. Many people also want to know how to create memo or notes lists.

Both WhatsApp and Telegram have a PC version easily downloadable, therefore texting yourself is the fastest and most comfortable way to transfer content between PC and smartphone, be that a text or a file.

There are different alternative methods to do this, designed specifically for sharing files. However, being able to use the applications in question directly represents the fastest and immediate option, especially considering that Whatsapp and Telegram are widely used at the workplace.

Why send a message to yourself?

This whole article begs the question: why should we text ourselves on WhatsApp and Telegram? Couldn’t sending an email to our address do the same?

Indeed that’s true, sending an email to your personal address would allow you to access files from both the PC and the smartphone. However, emails have many limitations such as the inability to send video or audio files easily. Furthermore, attaching a picture to an email is pretty simple on the PC, but is usually unnecessarily complicated on the smartphone.

The most common case to text yourself on WhatsApp and Telegram is the need to consult the material on which we worked even after leaving the workstation. In general, there are really many everyday situations in which learning how sending messages to yourself can be of great help, for example when you want to save on your computer a series of photos taken with your smartphone to keep them.

Is it possible to write to yourself on Whatsapp?

Given the enormous potential of this feature, one might think that Whatsapp includes the ability to send messages to oneself. For the moment, however, Whatsapp does not support this mode automatically.

This does not mean that you should give up this activity; thanks to a little trick, in fact, it is possible to write to yourself also through the Whatsapp application. The necessary procedure is based on an already present function, namely the possibility of creating groups of messages, with a little-known but very simple expedient:

• The first step consists in creating a group, to do this simply click on the three dots icon at the top right and then on the "New group" item.

• Once the group has been created, you will be prompted to enter at least one participant, it does not matter which one.

• At this point you will have to choose the name to assign to the newly created group, for example relating to its function as "notes".

• After entering the name of the group, you can proceed with deleting the participant, after clicking on the name above and selecting it from the list.

Following these steps, the result will be a Whatsapp group devoid of other people, which can be used to write directly to yourself, both on the PC and on the smartphone. In addition to the classic text messages, however, the group can also be used to send different contents, such as foto and documents.

That’s not all, because by simply clicking on the Media group item you can access all the files sent which will be archived automatically and made available at any time, divided into images, documents and link.

In this regard, we must remember that often doc or docx files, created with Microsoft Word, cannot be opened automatically by the application, unlike other formats such as pdf. To work around this problem, you can download an external application that works from file manager.

The latter will take care of the storage of all the desired contents, simply by selecting them and sharing them to the installed application, for example Google Drive or Dropbox. As for Telegram, however, things work in a completely different way.

How to write to yourself on Telegram

Unlike what happens with Whatsapp, the Telegram application includes the ability to send messages to yourself and does not need any particular method to do so. The procedure, in fact, is based on an already present functionality, called Saved messages.

This option is accessible directly from the main interface and allows, in addition to writing new messages and saving them, forwarding conversations and the insertion of files as attachments. By carrying out this procedure from the smartphone, all the contents will also be accessible from the PC, and vice versa.

This is just one of many Telegram features already built into the app. Another great example of Telegram tools seemingly absent on WhatsApp is self-destructing messages.

Original article published on Money.it Italy 2022-10-24 11:36:00.
Original title: Come scrivere a se stessi su Whatsapp e Telegram