How often do you email yourself and why?

I sometimes e-mail myself and leave the item in draft form.

Combined with webmail, this can be used to transfer files into or out of situations when you have nothing but internet access, and don't want to use a third-party service. It's also useful for keeping certain kinds of important information, which is then easily accessible anywhere via webmail.

By keeping the items in draft form, and not actually sending them to myself, I can edit them as much as I want, replacing their content and attachments, without any clumsy re-send workflow.

I'm already logging into e-mail, so using that is simpler than using e-mail, plus some other, separate, online service. On-line storage services have complicated UI, that support sharing workflows and whatnot that are completely irrelevant to this use case.

I run the mail server myself, so the data "stays at home". It's on RAID and backed up more regularly than some of my other storage locations, which is a good reason to park certain information there.

Used to email myself a lot, but now sending Telegram messages to myself. Nothing beats ability to send text, images, videos and audio messages, and with ability to set #tags to improve searchability... Still use email a lot, but email feels old and not practical.

My private email inbox consists of 80-90% emails to myself. Unlike my business email inbox I don't want to add another tool/app/website for open tasks. Old habit maybe.

I use it fairly often to mail myself links to websites that I want to explore in more detail or text that I want to save.

I could use an online service for it but most of the time I find these sites while at work and online storage sites are usually blocked for us. But email is open and allows me to send data to my personal account to be explored later when I have time.

I used to do it before discovering Taskwarrior. See my most recent reply on another thread[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764078

I use iOS' Shortcuts to create a email-to-self recipe.

Whenever I find anything that I need to read later, I email email myself, so that in the weekend hopefully I can catch them up.

So, basically, email (and also Calendar) is my todo list.

I don't really do it anymore, but I've done it a few times recently to quickly move links sent to my personal phone to my work PC.

Hardly at all, except from automated jobs where I want to know that something ran.

Occasionally, usually late night reminders of things I just realized or thought of.