Texter's "Meant to tell you"

• "Just thought of something," initally
• "Before I forget..." for short
• "Before I forget," initially
• Incidentally, in text messages
• Texter's "just so you know"
• "Oh, yeah ...," in a text
• "Incidentally," in Internet lingo
• "Incidentally ...," to a texter
• Incidentally, in online shorthand

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Internet abbreviation of by the way , in use by 1989.