For people who write email
Type emojis in Gmail without the picker
Gmail hides its emoji picker behind a toolbar button that moves depending on the window size. For one ๐ in a launch email, that is a detour every single time.
What that costs you today
The picker button sits in a toolbar that changes position
Emoji in the subject line means copying from somewhere else
Replies and pop-out compose have different toolbars
Formatting sometimes breaks after pasting an emoji
The same thirty seconds, twice
A teammate shipped, and the congrats email needs a ๐ in the first line.
The toolbar trip
- 01 Find the emoji button in the compose toolbar, which moves as the window resizes
- 02 Open the panel and scroll for the party popper
- 03 Click it, then click back into your sentence
A toolbar hunt per emoji, and the subject line is not covered at all.
With Emoji Anywhere
- 01 Type :ta right in the sentence
- 02 Press Enter. ๐ appears, menu gone
Works the same in the body, in replies and in the subject line.
What you would type instead
:tada โ ๐ launch and good-news email
:pray โ ๐ thanks, without a paragraph
:heart โ โค๏ธ sign-offs
:emdash โ โ a real em dash, typed
Try it here first. No install needed.
Where it works on Gmail
- โ Compose and replies. Inline replies, pop-out windows and full-screen compose all behave the same.
- โ Subject line. A plain input, so shortcodes work where Gmail's picker button does not even exist.
Make it yours
:ty โ Thank you so much! ๐ Custom shortcodes are text expansion in miniature. Make :ty a full thank-you line, or :sched your booking link, and type either in a few keystrokes anywhere Gmail lets you type.
Gmail keeps its own document model too. The extension inserts text the way Gmail expects rather than writing into the page, so your draft never ends up half-edited.
Questions
Does it read my email?
It only watches the characters you type, in the field you are typing them, to match shortcodes. Everything happens on your device, the extension makes no network requests, and your mail is never read or sent anywhere.
Does it work in the subject line?
Yes. The subject is a plain input, so :tada works there even though Gmail's own picker does not.
Will it break my formatting or signature?
No. Insertion goes through the standard editing path, the same one pasting uses, so bold text, lists and signatures stay exactly as they were.
Keep reading
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Free, 280 KB, no account. Two letters from now you will never open an emoji panel again.