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A simple app which allows you to send text messages to your Dropbox. It's a least viable product. Maybe someone will find it useful.

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I quite like the idea behind this, really cool.

Just one niggling question... how secure is it? Is it encrypted? Or can you see what I send?

Also, why is everyone getting silly domain names?! .me .us .ly etc... what's wrong with the good ol' .com :)

If you're sending the message in plaintext to them (or to someone), then obviously they (or someone) can see what you sent. Simple.

SMS are plaintext... d'oh. My bad. I guess a revised part of my question would be: do they save what I send them in a database?

Currently, yes, so you can go back see the messages you have received. I will make it an option to not store it in the DB in the future.

Clearly you haven't tried to register a (decent) .com lately...

Hard to find a .com. But I can see what you write, but won't. It's essentially a Twilio application.

what would have been a good available .com for this?

Support for country codes would be great!

I'd love to see such extension to todoist

I'm an Emacs org-mode kinda guy. Why I wrote it.

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Not sure why you are downvoted, but I'm wondering too why anyone would use this costly method instead of, say, SimpleNote.

He is probably downvoted because of the somewhat condescending tone.

As for your question, I normally use PlainText. I type in something on my phone and when I turn on my computer later, dropbox announces that transfer.txt has been updated which is a perfect reminder. This works fine except when I am offline (I travel a lot and often don't have data). Now, I could turn on PlainText when I get back, to synchronize data but I often forget to do this.

This solution would work for me -- although texting to the US is probably going to be a bit expensive..

You have an old "feature phone" (old Nokia phones, for example) that can still text just fine, but not run more modern apps. This is a perfect application for that.

In short: the southern hemisphere. SMS is the internet of africa, among other places.

Maybe that wasn't the driving force behind the development, but its certainly a potential use.

The majority of Africa's land area and population are in the Northern Hemisphere.

.. in fact, almost the entire land area of the planet is in the NH. Except Australia (mostly uninhabited) and Antarctica (nearly completely uninhabited).

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