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!
Great idea! I’ve been doing this for a while now. But while I can access all of the info on a computer my Android truncates notes to only 4 lines.
KeePassDroid + DropBox….
Also, if you name it “me” or something like that, there is a chance that someone might return it to you if lost. Similarly, if you add “wife/husband” to their entry, it might also help if you loose the phone.
[I don’t hold huge hopes but there are still some good people. This does fall down if you have your phone locked though. 😉 ]