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Allow sending messages to yourself

The Slack slackbot allows you send messages to yourself.

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  • Callista Chuah commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I use this feature all the time on slack to send links, attachments, note to self, etc from my mobile to be accessed on my desktop.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    +1
    Need this feature badly to try out - esp to try out the emojis, stickers and giphy before sending them.
    Also i would like to see the reminder option similar to slack.
    Microsoft please catch up with slack soon or you are ....

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I really miss this feature. It was a super fast way to send myself a note about something, because I tend to have access to teams/slack from all my devices.

  • REH commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We've recently moved from Slack to Teams. I really miss this feature. It was a super fast way to send myself a note about something, because I tend to have access to teams/slack from all my devices.

  • Michael Waites commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Talking to yourself is a natural thing in real life, why not in Teams? I send text to myself to remind me of things, I send emails to myself to add to my todo list... Teams would be a perfect place to talk to myself for other items.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I really like this in Slack. When a colleague is on holiday for instance, I don't want to send messages directly, but I also don't want to forget. So I send them to myself.

  • silvana commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please make this available. In Slack, I regularly use this featureto:

    - Check how a message looks before I send to bigger group
    - A place to save some quick notes/reminders for myself

    In Telegram, this feature is aptly named "Saved Messages"

    Thanks!

  • Johan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree, please add this fundamental feature!

    WORKAROUND 1 (repeated from below):
    Create a new team, make it private, and don't add any other members to it. Send yourself messages in there.

    WORKAROUND 2 (if you do not have permissions to create new teams):
    Use the Wiki extension/app and create a personal wiki page for snippets that you want to share between computers etc.

  • BearMef commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi MS Team!

    I wonder the approach you have, doing [clones of] something. The Slack team is promoting the ability to send a message to yourself as a one of the cool feature of their messenger and it's really helpful - you can find many "thanks" for Slack team for that feature.

    It's definitely was a requirement for Teams application to _exclude_ yourself from the list of message recipients and it's definitely additional efforts to implement it. So, product owner / project manager / analyst (all of them) spent time to decide to create and describe this requirement; developer(s) implemented; QA team run tests and, sure, it had been documented. All of that is just to, intentionally, kill the useful feature spending additional money for that.
    I assume that implementing the messaging to yourself will require efforts to avoid some specific side effects at the platform/app, but is it so complex and more benefitable to kill the feature, especially when you have a brilliant example to follow by?

    Can you, guys, explain it?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Every TEAMS user needs a private personal channel that they can use for notes, images, tasks and etc.

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