A plain notebook labeled 'Notes' on a black-and-white cover, the no-frills option next to 📔 Notebook With Decorative Cover's fancier one. It's the default for class notes, meeting minutes, and to-do lists — anything written down to be useful right away rather than kept as a keepsake.
What 📓 means
An upright book with a black and white hardcover and the word 'Notes' written in black within a white label. The 📓 Notes emoji represents student notes irrespective of the subject. It could symbolize the art of observation, handy tips, pointers, learning, and education.
How and when to use it
- Taking down notes is a consequence of observation with the intention of better memory. Hence, 📓 could also be used in the context of observing - "You need to observe in order to learn 📓".
- 📓 could also be used as a reference to 'mental notes'. Like, "You better keep making mental notes while you're there! 📓".
- If you're talking about 'collecting memories', or a 'compilation' of some written content, you can use 📓. For example, "Here's a glimpse to the bigger batch of some of our best work 📓" or "This is pretty much all that I've done through university 📓".
- Speaking of university, you could also use 📓 while posting pictures from your first/last day there, a tribute post, or even a story about the start of someone else's time in college. For instance, "Now that you're in college, you better do the thinking 📓"
Other Names
- 📓 Student's Notebook
- 📓 Notes Book
- 📓 Taking Notes
- 📓 Jotting Down Book
- 📓 Studies
- 📓 Studying
- 📓 Textbook
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › book-paper
- Codepoints
U+1F4D3- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:notebook:- Keywords
- notebook
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 📓 Notebook or 🇮🇱 Flag: Israel?