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Telegram is much more than a simple messaging app. Yes, WhatsApp is used by more people, and what you want is to chat with your contacts and that's it. But you will recognize that it would be great to gather the most practical functions of the mobile in a single application, and without overloading or eating up the phone's memory, right? Well, with Telegram you can do it. Because in addition to communicating with your contacts, you can keep notes and have a virtual hard drive. You just have to create a chat with yourself to use Telegram as a calendar and private storage space in the cloud. We explain how to do it.
Telegram: One App to Rule Them All
Telegram's versatility comes from its cloud hosting. This displays a huge range of utilities in the app, without your mobile suffering from it A chat with yourself may seem like an anecdote, but it's more useful than usual what it looks like To start, click on the options icon (the famous three lines, also called “hamburger icon”). Then click on the cloud icon that you will see next to your profile photo, and you will open the personal chat.
The first utility is obvious: you can send yourself any message or text. In this way, you will have a notepad without having to install a notepad application In this chat you can save everything you need to remember, such as a personal agenda .The shopping list, the link of an interesting piece of news, the template of a message that you repeat frequently in your groups, the text of an article about the wonders of Telegram... Whatever you want. You can freely share the text in question, modify it or delete it when you no longer need it. To do this, click on the message and select the option you prefer: “Copy”, “Forward”, “Edit” or “Delete”.
However, the real magic lies in turning your chat with yourself into a private hard drive. Thus, your chat will serve to have at hand those photos, GIFs, audio files or videos that you are interested in saving You do not need to install the Dropbox app or anything for it style. You just have to press the clip icon, and attach the file you want. Once you send it to yourself, the document will remain saved until you decide to delete it.The only limitation of this cloud storage is that the file cannot be larger than 1.5 GB.
Share files between mobile and computer instantly
Use the chat with yourself as a calendar, notepad and private storage in the cloud has an additional utility: you can share files between your mobile and your computer. Using Telegram Desktop, Telegram's desktop client, you will be able to send yourself any message or document and you will have it available instantly on your mobile and PC And how it is hosted in the cloud, the desktop version does not depend on the mobile app to work. To give you an idea, the screenshots in this article are taken with the mobile, and shared through Telegram Desktop. Much faster and more useful than resorting to the USB cable, Bluetooth or e-mail.And if you're concerned about privacy, remember that one of Telegram's strengths is its robust security.
Telegram not only serves as a notepad and personal hard drive. You can also play with your contacts, access downloads or find out what you want. And all without leaving the application. If it is clear that Telegram is the best messaging app. WhatsApp has more users simply because it arrived earlier. But they'll eventually be convinced, okay.
