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Notebook with Decorative Cover Emoji 📔

A hardcover notebook with a patterned or illustrated front, dressier than its plain-covered sibling, 📓 Notebook. It means a diary, a bullet journal, or a gratitude log — something kept for its own sake rather than a stack of lecture notes tossed once the term ends.

What 📔 means

A thick notebook, erect in design and made with a yellow hardbound cover bracketing a bundle of white pages and the word 'Notebook' labelled on the front cover.

The 📔 Notebook With Decorative Cover emoji mostly represents a student's notebook comprising of various divisions for each subject. It could also refer to a personal diary given the decoration on the cover.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing posts or reposts on journaling, you could use 📔 in the caption. It could be a personal post on the benefits, a reposts on tips and guides, a motivational fact or quote about the same, anything.
You could also use 📔 while asking someone to 'make notes' (this is generally used in a playfully sarcastic tone). Like, "You'd might wanna take down some notes on not being awkward from her 📔".
📔 would be a great emoji in the context of anecdotes. So, if you're texting someone about a memory from your personal diary, a reference to one of the incidents in it, or that of someone else's, use this emoji.
If you're an artist, writer, anyone who carries a notebook just in case unexpected inspiration arrives, use 📔 while writing caption quotes or text messages resonating with the same. For example, "You've got to be ready 📔 You never know where inspiration can come from".

Other Names

📔 Personal Diary
📔 Journal
📔 Personal Journal
📔 Journaling
📔 Subject Notebook
📔 Student's Notebook
📔 Notes

The lowdown

Category: Objects › book-paper
Codepoints: U+1F4D4
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :notebook_with_decorative_cover:
Keywords: book, cover, decorated, decorative, education, notebook, school, writing

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.