Store Personal Details In Your Own Contacts Entry

You know your own phone number and email address, so why would you have an entry for yourself in your contacts? For Lifehacker reader Ben, the answer is that it's a handy place to keep other personal information.

As he explains:

I store myself as a contact in my address book. There I keep non-sensitive information such as work personnel numbers, or account numbers for other organisations. Funnily enough I find myself looking myself up in my address book quite often!

As Ben suggests, this might not be a good idea for more crucial data such as your tax file number or passport number, though if you've secured your phone with a password then there shouldn't be too much risk. I personally keep these kinds of details in a text file stored on my phone, but using contacts is a pretty elegant solution. Thanks Ben!