WhatsApp is the world’s most popular messaging app, and for a lot of good reasons: support for almost all platforms, stable useful features with voice/video calling, and constant updates. Not only can you chat with your loved ones, but you can also use WhatsApp to chat with yourself.

Yes, you read that right! In addition to sending texts, photos, and videos to your friends and family, you can also save your personal data including photos, documents, videos, and links as a thread on your WhatsApp account for your own viewing pleasure. This way, you can browse the internet on your PC and send files to your phone and vice versa, without the need for another app or cables to connect the two.

This guide will help you create a chat/thread that only you can send and view to share files between your devices.

WhatsApp has a Click to Chat feature that lets you start a chat with someone without having their phone number saved in your address book. What many don’t know is that you can use the link to create a chat thread for your own phone number and use it to send and receive files between your PC and mobile device. To do this, follow the steps below.