"note to self" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "notes to self",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "notes to self"
      },
      "expansion": "note to self (usually uncountable, plural notes to self)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Note to self: Back up files more frequently.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Another friend […] gathered a group to go to […] a no-frills comfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters. (Note to self: if ever in Budapest on New Year’s ...)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A reminder to oneself to do something important."
      ],
      "id": "en-note_to_self-en-noun-FHXajDkv",
      "links": [
        [
          "reminder",
          "reminder"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zìwǒ tíxǐng",
          "sense": "self-reminder",
          "word": "自我提醒"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zìwǒ tíshì",
          "sense": "self-reminder",
          "word": "自我提示"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "self-reminder",
          "word": "muistutus itselle"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "napominánije samomu sebé",
          "sense": "self-reminder",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "напомина́ние самому себе́"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "note to self"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "notes to self",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "notes to self"
      },
      "expansion": "note to self (usually uncountable, plural notes to self)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Note to self: Back up files more frequently.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Another friend […] gathered a group to go to […] a no-frills comfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters. (Note to self: if ever in Budapest on New Year’s ...)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A reminder to oneself to do something important."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reminder",
          "reminder"
        ],
        [
          "important",
          "important"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zìwǒ tíxǐng",
      "sense": "self-reminder",
      "word": "自我提醒"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zìwǒ tíshì",
      "sense": "self-reminder",
      "word": "自我提示"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "self-reminder",
      "word": "muistutus itselle"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "napominánije samomu sebé",
      "sense": "self-reminder",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "напомина́ние самому себе́"
    }
  ],
  "word": "note to self"
}