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Chris Messina

Macmoji - Slack-style emoji for your mac! :smile:

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Macmoji is Slack-style emoji autocompletion for your Mac

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Chris Messina
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You can achieve something similar with Alfred 3's auto-expanding snippets and Joe Califa's Alfred Emoji Pack, but if for some reason you don't own Alfred 3, this is a great alternative solution! Installation is super easy ā€” such a great trick @warpling: 1. Download emoji substitutions.plist 2. Open System Preferences and navigate to Keyboard > Text 3. Drag the emoji substitutions.plist to the list of substitutions to add them 4. Type something like :boom: or :blackbox: and hit space after! šŸ’„ā¬›ļø
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@raulriera @chrismessina šŸ šŸ šŸ
Matt Hamlin
I am so happy I found out about this, I was seriously considering doing this by hand (at least for my favorite emoji) the other day.
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
Hunter
@immatthamlin I *had* done it by hand before Alfred 3!!
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@immatthamlin Same! I finally hit a breaking point yesterday and decided to make the full list. Took *a lot* of regex and messing with the `join` tool to corroborate the Unicode/Slack lists together correctly šŸ˜†
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@immatthamlin my pleasure! And fingers crossed they eventually switch to the native spell checker!
Romu Gaboriau
@immatthamlin @warpling Not tech a lot, but I use TextExpander to use shortcuts that work in Chrome. Is there a way to import that to TextExpander? šŸ¤”
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@romugaboriau @immatthamlin Very possible! If you're comfortable scripting, there's a simple template system set up that will export the mapping to a Keyboard Maestro version. If you know what TextExpander expects as input it should be easy to add one for it. Lmk if you need help!
Richard Goodwin
Also don't forget about Rocket from @_matthewpalmer ! https://www.producthunt.com/post... . Happy owner, and you can add in GIFS and custom images.
Joe d'Elia
tbh I don't understand this.... It's so easy to do āŒ˜ + control + space and get the popup.... That way I don't have to memorize all the emoji names....
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@joedeliame The emoji picker isn't *that* bad, but it does often lag, and can be very interrupting to have to scroll/search through when you know you just want a :beer: šŸŗ
Joshua Dance
@joedeliame It is super laggy a lot of the time, and if you know the name, it is faster than searching.
Christian Montoya
@joedeliame If you are accustomed to using substitutions like I am (thanks to using Slack for months) then this is a lot better than a popup
Niv Dror
So cool! šŸ™ŒšŸ™šŸ’«
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@nivo0o0 Thanks Niv! I thought you might like this! šŸ˜Š
Mimi Wong
It's great that this is free! Does it work anywhere else except for the Messages app?
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@mimi_wong it works system wide! (except for apps like Chrome using custom text stuff šŸ˜ž) It'll also sync to your other devices via iCloud since it's a system text substitution šŸ™‚
Christopher Hannah
Finally, an easy way to type emoji!
Anmol Malhotra
How to get this thing working on iPhone? Any way of doing it? šŸ¤”šŸ˜…
Ryan McLeod
Maker
Hey @anmol_malhotra4! They should sync to your phone via iCloud, but with the changes coming in iOS 10 I'm not sure they're as useful there.
Anmol Malhotra
@warpling Hey Ryan! šŸ‘‹ Changes in iOS 10? Is thing thing coming to iOS 10?
David Diamond
Awesome for people without Alfred, is there anyway to get this working in Chrome?
Nathan Gathright
@david_diam Not currently possible in Chrome. For any other app, go the Menu > Edit > Substitutions > Text Replacement, and that will enable it.
Yuan He
wow, that is smart
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@heyuan Thanks Yuan. There are definitely more advanced solutions (https://mojito.cool/) but this is the simplest way I could think of!
Julian R Figueroa
Awesome! :boom: but where is this supported? Can't make it work in GDocs or other apps.
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@unmultimedio should be supported anywhere that uses system spell check. Google's apps do not, but maybe this'll change in the future: http://apple.stackexchange.com/q...
Joshua Dance
I installed it but it is not working. Restart needed?
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@joshdance hmm they show in the substitutions list? Have you tried it in TextEdit? Some apps are glitchy with substitutions :/
Ahmad Awais āš”
Not working at my end. Restart needed?
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@mrahmadawais šŸ¤” does it work in TextEdit?
Marwan
Works well šŸ˜„
Pavlo Pedenko
Shut up and take my money!
Ryan McLeod
Maker
@pavlo_pedenko $0 taken gladly ;)
Travis Fischer
Been looking for a simple solution like this for ages -- really glad I stumbled onto this! Thanks!! šŸ”„ šŸ˜„