Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Adding emojis to your tags and lists

Emojis are fun. We all know this. But they can also be a helpful visual cue for working with your tasks, as gstoel demonstrates in this week’s tip.

I love nice visual and appealing apps and tools. RTM made large improvements in this last year, so I am very happy with this.

And I also love to make my tags and list names a little bit more attractive and recognizable. So I use colors for my different tag types (e.g., green for subject-related tags, blue for process-related tags).

But lately I have been adding emoticons, which work very nicely cross device too.

My process tags look like the following:
📞_call
🙍_people
⏰_waiting_for
☁️_someday_maybe

And two of my lists (which I also capitalize):
📅_WEEKSTART
🏢_WORK

I love this visual aspect, and you can add both emoticons on your phone and your desktop.

It is rather easy. Go to Emojipedia. Search on a nice term and use the copy functionality on the page, then just create/rename a list or tag and paste the emoticon in.

Thanks for sharing this tip, gstoel! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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