Jun 30, 2017
How to Use Slack-Style Emojis Almost Everywhere
Anyone in the modern workplace is probably familiar with tools like Slack, a team-oriented chat platform for getting things done. One of my favorite features is the emoji shortcut, which allows you to simply type :emoji-name: to insert the corresponding emoji. It makes it really easy to añadir emoción without hunting for the particular emoji you’re thinking of. After living in Slack for hours every day I found myself trying this shortcut in other apps, which disappointingly didn’t work. I’ve kept an ear a la ground for a solution to this very first-world problem…and finally found one!
¿Pero cómo? ?
At our last company holiday party, Aydrian mentioned that he had recently added an auto-correct match to his iPhone which replaced shrug with `¯\_(ツ)_/¯`. I loved the idea, so when I got home, I added all my favorite Slack emoji shortcuts to my Mac auto-correct.
To do this on a Mac, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text and then add emoji shortcuts. For an iPhone its the same process, found in Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement .
Pero, ¿funciona ⁉️
Estoy bastante contento con cómo funciona. Compruébalo en acción. ?
Hopefully this trick will help you maintain your emoji skills everywhere. Sometimes you’ll want to use an emoji you haven’t added a shortcut for though ? You can keep your emoji-ing in high gear with the keyboard shortcut ctrl + cmd + space ?
More love for emojis ❤️
¿Emojis en su código?
Aunque puede que no sea la mejor idea, es posible utilizar emoji en tu código y comentarios. Más concretamente, si eres como yo y prefieres escribir en tu editor de código, poder añadir emojis fácilmente es una buena característica (de hecho lo estoy usando para escribir este blogpost - gettin' meta). Hay un montón de plugins que ayudan con eso. Estos son algunos de los que he oído hablar bien:
Sublime Text 3: GithubEmoji
JetBrains: Plugin de compatibilidad con emoji
¿Emojis como código?
On a slightly more whimsical front, there is an open source project named Emojicode which is an entirely emoji-based language. You should definitely Pruébalo.