A pad of paper bound at the top by a wire spiral, sometimes with a pen or pencil sketched across it depending on the platform. It stands for jotting something down fast, meeting notes, a scribbled reminder, a to-do list in progress, and reads as more casual and handwritten than 📋 Clipboard's official, form-filling feel.
What 🗒️ means
A square notepad with ruled pages bound together with a metal spiral and the left corner of the first page rolled up, indicating the pages to be tearable.
The 🗒️ Spiral Notepad emoji represents one of the best ways of jotting down unexpected important details, before the advent of smartphones. It signifies immediate access, and making note of something.
How and when to use it
- You can use 🗒️ in the context of 'making notes', 'making note of' or even 'taking down notes'. Like, 'Ooooh. A burn I see. I'mma take note of this day 🗒️. And you wait. Just YOU WAIT!".
- 🗒️ can also be used while referring to grocery lists, a messy to-do list, or even a tearable list that you'd lend over to someone - "Let's do this. I'll make a list of all the things you could rather be doing right now 🗒️".
- Since the leaves in 🗒️ iare tearable, this emoji could also represent 'Post-it Notes'. For instance, "Honey, I've put the list on the fridge 🗒️".
- If you're advising someone to always be ready to jot things down, you can use 🗒️. For example, "Man. You never know where you could get story ideas from. I really suggest you carry one of these around 🗒️".
- Speaking of jotting things down, 🗒️ can also indicate observations, observing, or precisely, a notebook for such observations.
Other Names
- 🗒️ Post-it Notes
- 🗒️ Notepad
- 🗒️ Notepad Icon
- 🗒️ Spiral Memo
- 🗒️ Small Book
- 🗒️ Magnetic Pad
- 🗒️ Memo Pad
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › office
- Codepoints
U+1F5D2 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:spiral_notepad:GitHub- Keywords
- note, notepad, pad, spiral
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 — 🗒️ Spiral Notepad or 💼 Briefcase?
Runs with a crowd
🗒️ keeps company in school emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.