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Allow sending messages to yourself

The Slack slackbot allows you send messages to yourself.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please! This will be a great improvement. I send messages to myself all the time on other apps. There is no feature than could replace messages to yourself. No "Notes" app, no calendar events, nothing. It needs to be a message just like all messages you send or receive. I suppose it is very easy to implement and I am waiting with good hopes.

  • Jacob Mendlovic commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The easiest way to do this is to create a meeting where you are the only person invited. Make sure to add a Teams chat to the meeting. Next join that meeting, send your personal note in the chat, and end the call. Now add the chat from that meeting to your Pinned Conversations and boom - you've got yourself a personal channel.

  • Faber Optimé commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Easy workaround (as at 12th August, 2020):
    1. Click Calendar
    2. Click Meet Now
    3. Change Meeting name to something meaningful, like "Talk to Myself"
    4. Click Join now
    5. Click ... (More actions)
    6. Choose Show conversation
    7. Say Hello to yourself!
    8. Hang up
    9. Click Chat
    10. Right click on your most recent chat and choose Pin

    Voila!
    You now have a permanent chat with yourself always available at the top of your Pinned chats.

  • Faber Optimé commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Easy workaround (as at 12th August, 2020):
    1. Click Calendar
    2. Click Meet Now
    3. Change Meeting name to something meaningful, like "Talk to Myself"
    4. Click Join now
    5. Click ... (More actions)
    6. Choose Show conversation
    7. Say Hello to yourself!
    8. Hang up
    9. Click Chat
    10. Right click on your most recent chat and choose Pin

    Voila!
    You now have a permanent chat with yourself always available at the top of your Pinned chats.

  • Faber Optimé commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Easy workaround (as at 12th August, 2020):
    1. Click Calendar
    2. Click Meet Now
    3. Change Meeting name to something meaningful, like "Talk to Myself"
    4. Click Join now
    5. Click ... (More actions)
    6. Choose Show conversation
    7. Say Hello to yourself!
    8. Hang up
    9. Click Chat
    10. Right click on your most recent chat and choose Pin

    Voila!
    You now have a permanent chat with yourself always available at the top of your Pinned chats.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed! So useful on slack when sending files between 2 computers! Can't do it on MS Teams :(

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Wow, I thought more people would vote for this!

    It's very useful to be able to send yourself chats to help with transferring documents/images and notes across multiple devices, especially for mobile team members.

    I find this method a lot easier to do over other options like using Word Docs/One Note or Google Keep as MS Teams is a vital product to me and my team, so it's always open on every device I have - it's better to use just one product instead of having multiple.

  • Mattew commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    PLEASE add this. Just another reason why we're looking to move to Slack.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this feature. Slack has it and it is SO useful for drafting messages, sending links between phone and laptop, etc. It would make the Teams experience so much better!

  • Gregory Vinyard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I added this feature to my company's Teams. It's very simple. Just go in to App Studio in Teams and create a new bot. Call it "Notes" or something. Add an icon for it if you want. Then download the manifest file and install it.

    There is zero programming to this. There is no "bot" on the back-end. All you do is create a manifest file using the point and click wizard in Teams App Studio and add some icons.

    Now you have a bot with no brain. All you can do is send messages to it and it does nothing. This is exactly what you want. Now you can send messages to your "Notes" bot and they will be there for reference the next time you access the bot. You can pin the chat, or add the bot to your left hand menu for easy access.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    (WORKAROUND) create a meeting (Photos and Stuff) to your self. Join the meeting and post a comment. End the meeting. Now pin the meeting chat and you should be able to post text and photos the the meeting chat and they will show up in the chat for the meeting on all your devices.

    We used the meeting feature to complete a photo site survey. After the meeting everyone assigned to complete a survey of a site just posted the photos to the meeting chat from their phone. Worked like a charm. :-)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Seems like a simple function but we created "personal" private Teams for us to be able to do this

  • TK commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I can't imagine that this would be a tough feature to implement. I wouldn't even be upset if at first it appeared twice (like sending a text to yourself - once for sent, once for received) just to be able to get this out the door quicker.

    Small, quick wins are always great to bring into a sprint :)

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