add option to Direct Message yourself
Direct Message yourself for private notes, etc, like Slack: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/219899267-Saving-private-notes-and-files
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    This feature shipped with v4.5 on December 16th.
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       Tejay Cardon
    
 commented Tejay Cardon
    
 commentedThis does not appear to work on the Android client. 
 1.5.1 build 74
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       Felix Heller
    
 commented Felix Heller
    
 commentedI've tested this in Mattermost 4.5.0 and it works well. I can create a direct message channel to myself. See https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/PLT-7364 
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       Gilad S.
    
 commented Gilad S.
    
 commentedAnd allow forwarding messages from other people to yourself 
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       russell kaehler
    
 commented russell kaehler
    
 commented+1 used to use this feature all the time in slack, miss it a lot in MM 
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       Nelson
    
 commented Nelson
    
 commentedMy workaround for this I created a user "me." (couldn't create it with just "me" so added the dot) and instruct people to use that user as their private channel to themselves. 
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       matt_w
    
 commented matt_w
    
 commentedIn the meantime, I made a private group with myself :) Not quite the same but handy. 
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       Anonymous
    
 commented Anonymous
    
 commentedNeeded to allow incoming hook to post things to self (for review before posting on a public channel for example) 
 
          