# How to get icons in the titles of the notes?

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [19 February 2019 15:02 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650 "2019-02-19T15:02:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![merlinuwe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/merlinuwe/32/37_2.png) [@merlinuwe](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/merlinuwe)\
**Post date:** [19 February 2019 15:02 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650/1 "2019-02-19T15:02:05Z")

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How did you get these icons in the notes and their titles?

![grafik](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/1X/fb51d6634bebcc18ae0546852d32682b537653fa.png)

And is there a way to do so for the notebook-titles?

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**Author:** ![CalebJohn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/calebjohn/32/356_2.png) [@CalebJohn](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/CalebJohn)\
**Post date:** [19 February 2019 16:13 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650/2 "2019-02-19T16:13:35Z")

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Those are just unicode characters and should be supported everywhere in joplin. For example the notebook character is 🗒 the [spiral pad emoji](https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F5D2)

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**Author:** ![merlinuwe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/merlinuwe/32/37_2.png) [@merlinuwe](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/merlinuwe)\
**Post date:** [19 February 2019 18:47 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650/3 "2019-02-19T18:47:28Z")

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Ah, the trick seems to copy and paste _the icon itsself_ not the code to put it into the titles of notebooks and notes.

It’s unusual to see the pasted icon in a plain text file… what is it what I copy and paste? Binary data? Is there a code which will do the same (I think no)?

Here are some ressources where one can find icons:

> **[Colored Icon Characters To Copy-Paste - Smileys, Symbols etc.](https://html-online.com/articles/colored-icon-characters-copy-paste/)**
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> There's a character for almost any symbol. There's no need to use images to display arrows, smileys and simple drawings, we can simply copy them in our doc

  

> **[Find all Unicode Characters from Hieroglyphs to Dingbats – Unicode Compart](https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+1F300)**
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> All Unicode Symbols with Names and Descriptions on One Page

  

> **[HTML Symbols, Entities and Codes — Toptal Designers](https://www.toptal.com/designers/htmlarrows/symbols/)**
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> Easily find HTML symbols, entities, characters and codes with ASCII, HEX, CSS and Unicode values; including copyright sign, trademark sign and at symbol.

  
[http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html](http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html)

Hope that helps others with the same problem.

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**Author:** ![CalebJohn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/calebjohn/32/356_2.png) [@CalebJohn](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/CalebJohn)\
**Post date:** [19 February 2019 19:21 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650/4 "2019-02-19T19:21:29Z")

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These icons are actually plain text in the same way that regular characters are, because joplin uses unicode encoding for notes and titles etc. So whether you use a standard character or an emoji, it’s all the same to joplin (and your computers clipboard).  
In some places you can replace the icon with specific code, but I don’t think that’s possible in Joplin.

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**Author:** ![RainoGong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/rainogong/32/7776_2.png) [@RainoGong](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/RainoGong)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2021 08:14 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650/5 "2021-03-15T08:14:02Z")

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win can not type unicode directly, but using this tool [garcia/unicodex: Unicode input for Windows (github.com)](https://github.com/garcia/unicodex) can perfectly resolve this problem

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2021 08:17 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650/6 "2021-03-15T08:17:22Z")

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And on macOS type Ctrl+Cmd+Space to display the emoji selection tool:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/2X/6/634f3d340963d16fec34ba5c876019943f396cd4.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![whitewall](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/whitewall/32/6018_2.png) [@whitewall](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/whitewall)\
**Post date:** [15 March 2021 14:48 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650/7 "2021-03-15T14:48:08Z")

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Welcome!

Actually Win10 can now easily type emoji by hitting Win + ;

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**Author:** ![RainoGong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/rainogong/32/7776_2.png) [@RainoGong](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/RainoGong)\
**Post date:** [16 March 2021 02:24 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650/8 "2021-03-16T02:24:36Z")

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Nice！  
Thank you, the win10 origin emoji is more vivid than the simple unicode icon

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**Author:** ![oumout](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/oumout/32/11231_2.png) [@oumout](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/oumout)\
**Post date:** [17 November 2021 18:13 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650/9 "2021-11-17T18:13:20Z")

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Comes from Linux! CTRL + Space

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/2X/1/1dc325e19e3955584fe731b7b9a4c5ff7145bc8d.png)

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**Author:** ![Wimvan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/wimvan/32/12536_2.png) [@Wimvan](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Wimvan)\
**Post date:** [17 November 2021 19:44 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-get-icons-in-the-titles-of-the-notes/1650/10 "2021-11-17T19:44:02Z")

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Usually „ Windows key + . (dot)“ works for emoticons. 😀