How to use WhatsApp as a cloud storage or reminder app

Practically everyone who has an Android mobile today is a user of WhatsApp. In fact, the messaging app has become one of the main means we use to communicate with friends, family, partners, even companies and suppliers.

But what many do not know is that it has other interesting functions besides the merely communicative one. Thus, we can also use the chat tool, as a cloud storage tool or as a reminder calendar, don't you believe it? Let's see...

How to use WhatsApp as a cloud or reminder app

Who has not ever sent an email to themselves? It may seem like a cat, but sometimes there is a need to keep something important in mind, such as printing an invoice or a crucial document. We send it to our email and it will remain in the mailbox, so that when we go to review the pending emails we say oysters! this must be done now. Well, with WhatsApp we can do something similar.

You can be your own contact

We all know that to start a conversation with a user, we only have to save their number in our phonebook and, if they have a WhatsApp account, we can send them a message. What many do not know is the possibility of saving ourselves as a contact. In this way, from our own WhatsApp account, we can write messages to ourselves, with everything we want, it sounds selfish, but it can be done.

What can we do in our lonely chat

In this chat window, in which we will write to ourselves, we will be able to send each other pdf files, photos, songs or videos, so that we have a backup copy of them in the cloud. In addition, you can also use this chat as a notepad or as a reminder of any data that you need to write down.

More and better on Telegram

Although WhatsApp is the most widely used messaging app, the reality is that this same function of sending messages to yourself can also be carried out on Telegram, where you can also send messages of all kinds.

Keep in mind that WhatsApp compresses the photos that we send, so the backup you will have will be of lower quality than the original, something that does not happen in Telegram. Therefore, if you want to use a messaging tool, such as a data cloud without losing the quality of the documents, Telegram is probably a better option than WhatsApp.

Did you know this trick to store content on WhatsApp? Do you think it can be a good option to have backup copies of your files? Or do you think that for this it is better to resort to the most classic cloud storage apps like Google drive? We invite you to give us your opinion in the comments section at the end of this post.