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Emojis in Koala Go Playground Sticky Notes🤷🏻‍♂️

Emoji use in sticky notes was first brought to my attention by Emily Radecki (she is always finding cool stuff and sharing it), she made a post about it, which I’m not sure many people saw. That seems to be one weakness of a busy Facebook group, stuff gets quickly shuffled way down the page before you might have a chance to read it.

Anyway, sticky notes will accept emojis, the problem is that most of them are really not useable. Most of the picture ones you would want to use are just a monochrome blur.

But some of them, mostly the symbols, work just fine. 

and as you can see, in the math symbols category there are a few different fonts, some work and some are just too blurry. You have to try them to find out.

Wow! that’s cool, how can I do that?

Well, I can only speak to using macOS, but I access the emoji menu by pressing the Control, Command and Spacebar keys at the same time which pulls up the menu pictured above. I usually have to double click on the emoji I want, and sometimes I get two…oh well.

I did brief testing with action zones and they seem to work normally, you can also mix them with regular text. So start experimenting! I want to see what everyone comes up with.

In case you didn’t already know, I love sticky notes, so expect to see more uses for them in the future.