The memo emoji (📝) is the Unicode character U+1F4DD, depicting a sheet of paper with handwriting and a pencil resting on it, used to represent a written record, reminder, or note in digital communication.
Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the memo emoji renders slightly differently across platforms — Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung each style their own variant — but the shape is consistent: lined paper, a few strokes of script, and a pencil. The emoji is commonly used to flag note-taking, journaling, drafts, and informal records, and serves as the default visual shorthand for the act of writing something down rather than for the document itself.
This emoji was chosen to precede every mention of a memo across 📝MythOS because it represents not a finished document but the nature of an informal record — one that keeps evolving as a person learns, corrects, and revises. That property was deeply resonant with the origin of MythOS, where memos compound, get linked, and grow more accurate over time.
The Apple version of the emoji is paired with the text:
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can…
This is an excerpt from "The Crazy Ones," used as part of Apple's Think Different advertising campaign of the late 1990s to early 2000s.