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How to send yourself a message and use WhatsApp as a notepad

 

How to send yourself a message and use WhatsApp as a notepad

That WhatsApp is the most popular and used messaging app in much of the world there is no doubt. But it is also that it has become the most used means of communication, not to mention the different uses that more and more people give to the popular app owned by Facebook. Perhaps one of the most interesting is the possibility of using WhatsApp as a notepad and this is how you can do it.


Every day there are many photos, messages or documents that we take or receive through WhatsApp, the mobile camera app itself or through our email and that we automatically store on the phone. However, when we later want to get hold of them, it is likely that we no longer know where we keep it . If we use WhatsApp as a notepad we will always have it at hand without having to resort to other apps ...


What advantages does it have?

The main advantage is that we always have direct access to WhatsAppby hand and it doesn't take long to find that note application that we never know where it is. Another advantage is that we do not need to install anything so we will save space in the internal memory of the mobile phone if we do not have too much space for apps. Also, the advantage is that it can be a shared notepad. It is enough to make groups with a person of the different things that you want to point out. For example, if you want to have a joint shopping list with your partner, you can write down what needs to be bought in as many groups as you want without using complex apps for shared notes or tasks. It is easy to use, suitable for all levels. And you can delete and start over whenever you want, just delete the message.


Another of the most useful functions is that we can send data to the computer through WhatsApp Web . It is enough to open the app on the computer and we can copy the text from the mobile to the PC, for example. Or even send us photographs that we will later have stored for a computer, a tablet, etc.


Three options to send you a message

However, it is possible to use WhatsApp as a notepad without having to bother our partner, parents or a friend, since we can send messages to ourselves and in this way, have our own chat with everything we want to save. This is very useful to send ourselves the shopping list, write down reminders, tasks that we do not want to be forgotten, etc. Therefore, the best way to use WhatsApp for this purpose is to create a chat with ourselves so that we do not have to disturb other people and that no one but us can have access to the information stored in it.


For those who do not know, the messaging application owned by Facebook does not allow us to send messages to ourselves, just like that. However, there are certain tricks with which we can achieve it:


  • Create a group with another contact and then delete it to be alone
  • Create a new contact from the messaging app and send a WhatsApp message from the phonebook
  • Sending a message to a friend with a url like wa.me/minumber

Create a group with yourself

One of the options to create a chat that we can use as a notepad in the messaging app is to create a group with another contact we trust and then remove that other person from that group. It is the best option we can have and the least messy. You can make as many groups as you want with that person, who can be your partner or your mother. So you can have a group for the shopping list, another to organize trips, another to save messages that you want to read at another time ...

To do this, we must follow the steps shown below:

  • We open the app on our mobile
  • We tap on the menu button > New group
  • We select a trusted contact
  • We write the subject of the group, for example, Notepad and press Ok
  • We touch on the group bar (where the name is shown)
  • We scroll down until we find the list of members
  • We touch on the other contact
  • We select the option Delete said contact
  • We will already have a group with ourselves to send us what we want

Add your phone number

Although WhatsApp does not allow us to send a message to a contact with our same number in the same way that we do with any other contact on our agenda, there is a way to "cheat" the messaging app. If you have a conversation with yourself, you can add yourself as a phone number.

  • We open the WhatsApp app on our phone
  • We touch on the magnifying glass icon as if we were going to look for one of our contacts
  • Click on the send message icon
  • Now the option New contact will appear and click on it
  • We create a contact with the name Notepad and our phone number
  • We close WhatsApp
  • We open the mobile phone agenda
  • We look for the contact and click on the option to send WhatsApp message
  • We will automatically open a chat with ourselves
  • You can now use WhatsApp as a notepad

Create a chat with ourselves

In addition to the two options mentioned above, there is another way to create a chat with yourself to be able to use WhatsApp as a notepad and be able to send us reminders, the shopping list, photos, videos, documents, links, etc. It is less recommended or it can be more complicated, but if the previous two do not convince you or you do not like them for some reason, the steps you should follow are the following:

  • We open the app on our phone
  • We go to the chat of a trusted contact
  • We send the message: wa.me/+346XXXXXXXX . Where we will have to replace the X with our phone number
  • We touch on the link that generates in the chat of our contact
  • We will automatically open a chat with ourselves and we can use it

Schedule a message for ourselves

To be able to send a message to ourselves automatically , as a reminder or in case at a certain time we have to copy something we need, there is a really easy way to achieve it.

We only have to download the Wasavi application from the Google Play Store , although you will find some others that also do the same. Once we have it downloaded and installed, we only have to do the following:

  • The first thing is to grant all the permissions that we are requesting the first time we run it.
  • Within the application, click on the floating blue button at the bottom left.
  • In the drop-down we click on Schedule Message .
  • Now we will see a tab where we can choose the contact to send (that is, we pamper) write the message, put the time and day we want it to be launched. In addition, you have two options for sending the message, such as automatic or as notification .
  • If we click Ask me before sending message , it will send us a notification so that we are the ones who send the message, something that does not make much sense in this. It is best not to check this option and thus make everything automatic.

When the time arrives, the message will automatically be sent and we will receive it on our own WhatsApp. We must warn you that there are smartphones in which the program needs to be unlocked to be able to work, something that is a downside.

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