Have You Ever Wanted To Send Yourself a Personal Conversation?

[DRE]

How come we can't message ourselves in Xenforo? What's the harm in that? I used to do this in vBulletin because I preferred taking Notes here. Not really important notes but random notes about the site or whatever. I now do it in my mod forum. I basically have to create an alias account and message myself if I want to take notes this way.

 

[Jeremy]

No, never felt the need.

 

[Brandon Sheley]

No, never felt the need.

ditto

 

[RobParker]

Nope, surely it's better to do this in a private node and then you have the option of moving them to somewhere public if you need to.

 

[whynot]

How come we can't message ourselves in Xenforo? What's the harm in that? I used to do this in vBulletin because I preferred taking Notes here. Not really important notes but random notes about the site or whatever. I now do it in my mod forum. I basically have to create an alias account and message myself if I want to take notes this way.

I do the same.
Without the draft function that's the only option to save future threads,posts.

 

[Lisa]

Yup, I used to do it in vB, all the time as reminders for things on the forum.

 

[Moshe1010]

Use notepad. I use OS X's notes.

 

[silence]

Eh I rather a feature for notices in the admincp.

 

[Shelley]

I personally use staff areas for notes/ snippets of code for that type of thing.

Probably not ideal, or practical but couldn't you use Chris Deeming's - Notifications set it for it to display for conversation_list, conversation_view area or both areas with the permission to be viewed by yourself only?

I haven't checked it out whether you can do both or all with regards to locations but i know you can pick locations to show notifications so in theory you can have a bunch of notifications showing in the bottom left, bottom right, top left & top right though again whether that is practical to do is another story. Another option could be using the Bookmarks Add-on though personally I prefer to have a dedicated admin/staff area to make such notes that are deemed as important or something I want to go back to. If I think they are priority over other notes I'll bookmark that note I posted in the admin area and set the bookmark to private.

 

[MattW]

Nope, surely it's better to do this in a private node and then you have the option of moving them to somewhere public if you need to.

Exactly what I do

 

[Liam W]

I always used to send myself PM's on vB, and I still do on other forums...

It's a good way to keep notes, and test PM's etc

 

[MattW]

and test PM's etc

as a forum admin, that's what personal test accounts are for

 

[Lisa]

as a forum admin, that's what personal test accounts are for

I hate cluttering up a site with test accounts though

 

[MattW]

I hate cluttering up a site with test accounts though

even just the one??

 

[Adam Howard]

The only time I ever sent a PM to myself was to test to see if the PM system was working. That's all.

Like @Azhria Lilu I didn't want to make another account, just to log in and log out to test this 1 feature.

As for notes..... That is what "Pandora's Box" is for (that's the name of my staff only forum).

 

[MattW]

I have a single test account on my main site, which is what I used to make sure all the permissions etc we working OK. I know you can test permissions via the ACP, but say for example, the username change feature in User Essentials, you can't test that via spoofed permissions.

 

[netrix]

There is an addon to take notes in the RM: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/noted.2401/

 

[Lisa]

even just the one??

Nope. That's not to say I've not used them, I just don't like having multiple accounts for testing purposes - I generally just rope someone else in to help test something instead

 

[0xym0r0n]

I have an add-on that works like a notepad
But notes that I need reminder's about are placed in my staff section, so they can poke me about it

 

[Mike Edge]

No, never felt the need.

Same.. The voices inside my head talk to me without the need to write them.