I use Signal's Note to Self. It's often easier than dealing with a notes app or file syncing for one offs or interesting links I want to read on another device.

This is my flow too. I know it’s silly, but 90% of why I pay for premium is just for the tags in my saved notes messages.

I just use a 1-person Slack message for this. Split categories into channels.

I can also write my own plugin bots to respond to specific queries.

I considered Discord but I hate its UI, especially every time I go to the website it wants to do a phone verification. F that, I'm out. If you are a nonessential "fun" app you need to be as low friction as possible.

I use Slack for this too, mostly because its reminders work great for me. If messages are anywhere else I keep losing/forgetting them. I wrote a Raycast plugin that takes a screenshot and sends it straight to my Slack, then I add whatever reminder I want from there.

I admit Slack's reminders are a pretty neat addition. Wish Telegram had that.

What about using a discord server?

Discord is generally snappy but nothing beats Telegram. It just feels like the only remaining desktop client that actually makes use of native OS facilities.

Plus there are scripts to back up the said channels. With Discord I haven't checked (but maybe there are as well).

So mostly (1) Telegram is still snappier and (2) Telegram was there first, more or less, at least on my own timeline of checking chat clients.

You can backup discord channels with discord bots, like [1].

[1] https://xenon.bot/

Cool, thanks. I don't doubt the community and the good software, it's just that for me Telegram was there first.

Discord is much much slower than the telegram client IMO