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Get Creative with Emoji for Smart Lists (and other stuff!)

mstackhouse1 Pro says:

After skimming the forum I didn't see that anyone else has mentioned this yet, so here goes. Apologies if its been mentioned before.

Sometimes when you open your todo lists you are assaulted by a wall of plain text. Maybe a few colors, if you are using priorities. What if you could bring in some right-brained creativity to your left-brained lists?

For those of you using iOS devices and/or Mac OSX Lion, try naming your Smart Lists symbolically using Emoji--colorful icons--instead of words. In case you aren't aware, Emoji can be accessed via the Settings>General>Keyboard>International Keyboards page on your iOS 5.x device.

For example, many people have a "hot list" of items that is created via a Smart List saved search. Why not represent that with flames or rockets instead of words? Or a grocery list as an assortment of food icons? The possibilities are endless, and you are free to make a fresh change at any time.

Now, I don't personally use Emoji for regular lists or tags, because I want to be able to add items very quickly via twitter on the mac, and adding Emoji is a slower process there. But feel free to do that if it works for you. You can add them to your task titles too.

The Emoji sync and display just fine among iOS and Mac Lion computers, and are fully searchable just like text.

You will be amazed how much lighter and friendlier your Smart Lists and other items seem. Even better, you'll be able to see at a glance exactly what list is what without even thinking about it.

Posted at 12:10am on March 28, 2012

emily (Remember The Milk) says:

Hi mstackhouse1,

Creative tip! I just wanted to let you know that you're this week's Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner. We've upgraded your Remember The Milk account to have a free year of Pro. :)

Posted 1 year ago

essic says:

Nice idea! However, adding emojis to the beginning of smart list names messes up the sort order between the web app and the iOS apps. In the iOS apps, emjois are sorted to the top, while they are sorted to the bottom in the web app. With a large number of lists, this creates a big usability problem.

I've noticed this sort order disconnect with symbols as well. In the web app, asterisks (*) are sorted above brackets ([), while the opposite is true in the iOS apps. Since I use symbols to sort frequently used lists to the top, this is pretty frustrating. I notified RTM support about this issue months ago.

Perhaps a more elegant solution to these issues is to allow manual sorting of lists, "pinning" certain lists to the top, and/or allowing for categorizing lists in folders.

Posted 1 year ago

mstackhouse1 Pro says:

Thanks, Emily, glad you guys liked it!

And Essic you are exactly correct. The only way to influence the sort order would be to add a character or word to the beginning of the list name. I can see how list order would really make a difference if you use a lot of lists.

I agree the ability to do custom sort order for lists (as well as tasks!) or at least allow some sort of pinning would help in many ways. Great idea.

Posted 1 year ago

kswilfong says:

I have been able to move my favorite lists to the top of the list order by putting an underscore before the name (alphabetically it appears before any letters). But my smart lists are still all at the bottom, sorted separately.

Is there a way to get the smart lists to go to the top of the page over the other lists? I have dozens of regular lists but only maybe 5 or 6 smart lists and really hate scrolling down to locate them. I use the android APP mostly, not web based.

Thanks if anyone can help!

Posted 1 year ago

andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:

Hi kswilfong,
This isn't currently possible, sorry; lists are sorted above Smart Lists. Thanks for your feedback on this!

Posted 1 year ago

milkiglo Pro says:

Emoji for rtm lists looks great in iOS!! If you have not already check out how to enable emoji on yr devices:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4976

Posted 1 year ago

mmcoyne2 Pro says:

Is there a way to place the RTM icon on my Mac desktop like it appears on my iPad?

Posted 11 months ago

brendan (Remember The Milk) says:

Hi mmcoyne2,
You should be able to create a shortcut to the web app on your desktop by dragging the URL or favicon from your browser to your desktop. However the icon used for the iPad app is not currently available for download, sorry.

Hope that helps!

Posted 11 months ago

rubyji Pro says:

For symbols that work on multiple platforms, try these http://thenextweb.com/TwitterKeys/keys.php

Posted 11 months ago

roger.walter Pro says:

good for you mstackhouse1 - I recommended this same thing about a year and a half ago - but wasn't selected for the tip of the week - way to go! :-)

Posted 11 months ago

olliebaum says:

Why is it that when I try to do this on the web app in Chrome that the emoji icons just show up as blank spaces. I'm just dragging from the Character viewer into the 'edit list name' field. I run Mountain Lion on a Macbook Pro and I do not have a RTM pro account. Is the only way to do this by editing list names on an iPhone?

Posted 9 months ago

milkiglo Pro says:

Daring Fire Ball linked a list of descriptions for Emoji:
http://www.grumdrig.com/emoji-list/

Via:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/12/11/ios-emoji

Posted 4 months ago

milkiglo Pro says:

@olliebaum I think it only works in mobile Safari and Safari - Not sure if they are still making Safari for windows...

Posted 4 months ago

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