Many messengers have a feature where you can send notes to self or forward interesting messages for later reading. However, with time, such chats turn into a steaming pile of crap. This is a handy feature, yet it has downsides. Pros - Useful for jotting stuff down fast: messenger apps are often already open for day to day communication - Messages and posts can be forwarded there in a couple of clicks - Cross-platform Cons - It's a chat, not a notebook - Impossible to find anything - Forms a bad habit of storing everything in one place that's hard to give up - Hard to clean up - Posts and links get lost in the huge heap of stuff - Accidental leakage: sending to someone else instead of saving a message - Risk of losing data I've exported all data from Saved Messages locally and cleaned it up. From now on I intend to use a proper note-taking app (Google Keep) for notes, and I'll only use Saved Messages for saving useful posts and messages and we'll see how maintainable this is.= There's one flaw to it, which is almost impossible to fix: as soon as I create a Saved Messages chat again and start forwarding stuff to it, I'll be tempted to jot down notes there again. There's one more approach that exists: very regular cleanups, but in practice it's hard to follow such routine.