I email myself. A lot. I’m still trying to figure out if it’s a bad habit or not. It’s a tough call.

By doing it, it’s effectively making my inbox my to-do list. That feels a slightly problematic because it’s a to-do list that isn’t entirely of my own making. It’s letting the world control my to-do list. Not to mention that I already use another app for my to-do list (I like Things).

But somehow it doesn’t bother me that much. It’s just a little reminder to myself to deal with it later. I often end up moving it to my more official to do lists. Or I just deal with the thing right away. Or it was just a link to something interesting anyway so it goes into my separate workflow for that. Emails to myself never seem to feel like a burden.

I’d say 50% of the email I sent to myself is simply a subject line with enough to remember why I’m doing it. For example, I spot a typo in a blog post and can’t fix it right then, so I write an email to myself quick that says “Typo: applience” or whatever the word was.

The other 50% is from Mail To Self, which adds a quick sharing button that blasts whatever I’m looking at on my iPhone to my email.

How often do you email yourself?