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Allow sending messages to yourself

The Slack slackbot allows you send messages to yourself.

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  • Johnny commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Typical that Microsoft doesn't incorporate needed features from the get go. Quite disappointed since I use this at work, and need to document information for myself on my mobile device. I end up using the wiki and this takes multiple steps and is not quickly available. Signal has the option, why not Teams?

  • onlyforkbj commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be a very useful addition to MS teams. Writing notes, To-Dos, Reminders and many more possibilities all within one tool, Teams. We need not hop over different tools to achieve all of these.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd like it because I'm new to Teams and want to try the formatting etc. on a message before I send it to someone, also to keep a note or reminder. Please add it!

  • Jamie McIlvenny commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is there a way to create a group chat and remove others to leave just yourself (a la WhatsApp workaround)?

  • Jeremy Bradshaw commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I chat with myself between desktop and mobile by using "Meet Now" on Desktop, then the mobile app instantly shows me the option to join the meeting. When I do that, I can then choose to join and remain in the meeting on the desktop as well, or join and boot my desktop presence. Pretty slick. Allows me to show my screen from the phone to the desktop for various testing scenarios.

  • Cifer Fang commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1, I need this feature too.
    But, your can create private team, only add yourself in that. Use conversation save notes.

  • Cam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Anonymous, re:

    "The first way:

    (you can only make one chat with this one and it will be named Just Me)

    - Go onto a chat with someone who's not you.
    - Go onto the options and a chat will be created with that persons message
    - Delete the person's message from the top of the chat to have a blank slate"

    What does 'Go onto the options...' mean? Please describe where the button is (is it the triple-dot overflow menu on a single chat message?), what the icon looks like, and what menu options to click after that.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You can make one two ways

    The first way:

    (you can only make one chat with this one and it will be named Just Me)

    - Go onto a chat with someone who's not you.
    - Go onto the options and a chat will be created with that persons message
    - Delete the person's message from the top of the chat to have a blank slate

    The second way:

    -Go onto calender
    - Click start a meeting
    -Name it
    - When in a meeting chat, type something in the meeting chat
    - Now there's a chat with yourself

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You can make one two ways

    The first way:

    (you can only make one chat with this one and it will be named Just Me)

    - Go onto a chat with someone who's not you.
    - Go onto the options and a chat will be created with that persons message
    - Delete the person's message from the top of the chat to have a blank slate
    -Now there's a chat with yourself

    The second way:

    -Go onto calender
    - Click start a meeting
    -Name it
    - When in a meeting chat, type something in the meeting chat
    -Hang up
    - Now there's a chat with yourself

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please!!! This was so helpful on slack - I would use it all the time to store items that I would need to come back to

  • Sean commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I use multiple VM's and PC's and have the need to send myself a messages and screen snips from remote terminals. Slack was easy to open a browser and message myself quickly, to be seen on my 'main' workstation, Without leaving my credentials on a department PC to be accidentally used by another employee. Not the case with Teams... <cry>

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    100% Would love this feature. Super sad to discover this wasn't possible once transitioning from slack to teams.

  • Katy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Coming from using slack at my last job; I was surprised to see that this was not a feature in Teams. Our team will message one another with messages for themselves as a work around - it's a pain. Can you please let us just message ourselves?

  • anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    So a workaround that I have for this is to:
    1. click the calendar icon of TEAMS sidebar and then in the top right click "MEET NOW"
    2. join the call (it's just you in the call)
    3. go to the meeting chatbox, type a test message (this now created a chat for this meeting in the chat log, it will be labeled "meeting with *your name*" )
    4. go back to the chat icon in TEAMS sidebar and *pin* that meeting (you can now send messages just to yourself)

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