forum.asana.com /t/the-best-emojis-for-business-and-work-in-general/69408
The best emojis for business and work in general
3-4 minutes 12/24/2019
Hi everyone 
,
Emojis are not only for young teenagers on Instagram, they are also great to emphasize content or convey information. Don’t we say a picture is worth a thousand words? In Asana, you can add emojis by typing « : » then a word in a task description or comment. But that doesn’t work in task names, project names, team names or custom fields. Here is the little trick to get an emoji keyboard almost anywhere: Ctrl+Cmd+Space on Mac OS, and Windows+. on Windows (or right click, and select “Emoji”)!
Below is a list of emojis and their possible meaning in a work environment. I encourage you to use them as a prefix in team names, project names, task names if that makes sense, and as options in drop-down custom fields!
Because discourse does not have all the emojis Mac OS has, I am pasting screenshots and not the actual emojis. You can easily find them all in your emojis keyboard.
Do you have other cool emojis in mind?
-
created
Dec ‘19
-
last replyDec ‘21
- 47.1k
views
- 9
users
- 47
likes
- 10
links
Wow we could have made a post together 
thanks!
@Bastien_Siebman & @lpb Great work guys, this is awesome. I always struggle with how to best make use of Visuals and especially emoji’s…
Jason.
Great @Bastien_Siebman
Just to complete the tips, you have 2 different solutions with Windows:
- Right click, and select “Emoji”
- Or use the keyboard shortcut “Windows+.“ (you wrote semicolon but it’s actually point
)
Good contribution @Bastien_Siebman.
Personally I am not very loving emojis in task managers. Maybe it’s because of a form factor, I mean, I love emojis but to communicate in messaging applications.
For professional environments, they are a great visual aid, but I get a lot of variety of shapes and colors.
Maybe I would think differently if you had the option of putting linear icons.
The only symbols I use in asana are star-shaped characters to indicate the level of concentration that some tasks may require.
A pleasure to read you
Greetings from Barcelona and best wishes for 2020
Thanks @Julien_RENAUD for the fix about Windows, I updated my post!
@JMartinez I can definitely understand, even though I do believe they bring fun to work. Asana without any emoji is very “serious” and not fun tu work with. The star idea is a good one!
I just came across this helpful post (though it’s from 2017) and wanted to include it in this thread in case of use:
Larry
The one thing I would just say is we need some diverse emojis, 2020 and still nothing on Twitter! 
On Mac OS at least each emoji is available in various skin colors, isn’t that what you need?
I’m an Android/ PC user. I think this was updated though.
Thanks for this interesting information!