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Working with Emojis & Greek Letters

You can add emojis and Greek letters to your notes and to the titles of documents.

Written by Soren Bjornstad

Working with Emojis

You can use emojis in two ways in RemNote: within the text of your notes and as document icons.

In text

You can insert emoji into RemNote notes just like any other character using your device's emoji inserter. For instance, on most phones you can tap the emoji icon, and on macOS you can press Cmd+Ctrl+Space.

If your device doesn't have a convenient emoji inserter, RemNote also includes one of its own, which you can access by typing %%. After typing %%, search for the name of the emoji you want to use, then use the arrow keys to select an appropriate item and press Enter to insert it.

The emoji inserter open over a note, listing matching emoji by name with the entry for a slightly smiling face highlighted.

As document icons

To make it easier to spot the document you're looking for, you can assign a document an emoji. To do so, zoom into the document, then choose Change Icon from the Document Style menu in the upper right.

Two numbered callouts on a document: (1) the smiley icon in the upper right, and (2) the 'Change Icon' entry in the menu it opens, with the emoji picker alongside it.

A document's icon will appear:

  • next to its name in the document header

    A document header with the chosen emoji sitting immediately to the left of the title.
  • in the sidebar

    A sidebar entry where the document's emoji replaces the standard document icon next to its name.
  • and in place of the document icon when the document is viewed as a bullet within another document.

A document shown as a bullet inside another document, with its emoji where the document icon would normally be.

Adding Greek Letters

You can also add Greek letters to your notes – useful when studying physics, maths, chemistry and other sciences.

If you use Greek letters frequently, you may want to consider switching your keyboard input for the most convenient input.

Alternatively, you can use the emoji inserter, which also supports the Greek letters. Access the emoji inserter by typing %% and searching for the name of the letter you want to use.

The emoji inserter after searching for the Greek letters, listing the whole alphabet as results with alpha selected and its name and shortcode shown at the bottom.

If you want to use Greek letters in mathematical or chemical equations, you can instead use LaTeX: type either $$ or /latex, then write/paste the mathematical/chemical text into the LaTeX Equation Field pop-up window using LaTeX \macros.

The LaTeX Equation Field with the alpha, beta and gamma macros typed into it, and the rendered equation shown above in the bullet.

A list of LaTeX macros that allow you to add Greek characters can be found in the documentation here, and more information about how LaTeX works can be found in this article: Writing equations with LaTeX.

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