I am posting this because I am ashamed I just found out it existed, and I thought I would subject the rest of my Beehaw friends to the same experience! 😁

The instructions are super simple, Windows Key + . (period) opens up a little overlay which contains Emojis, GIFs, Clipboard, and some other stuff I’m not sure is useful.

Ill end this post with a question for you all:

-What was something you learned about technology FAR later than you SHOULD have?

  • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Yep, it’s a quite old feature, but don’t get too excited, it’s a pain in the neck to use. It’s like they put it there without even using it. Very unfriendly experience.

      • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think it’s probably the shortcut to open it, I’ve already forgotten it and I just read it a few seconds ago. Something you’d need to use a few times to get used to

        • Rekorse@beehaw.orgOP
          3·
          1 year ago

          I agree, I think it’s only going to work for me with memorizing it because one of the MMORPGs I used to play used the period key for chat options, so I’m piggybacking on that.

          The shortcut choice sort of screams “there weren’t many shortcuts left”

      • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If I type :hand then [Win+;] I expect the hand emoji section to be shown, or at least the search box to be auto-filled.
        I don’t want to touch the mouse to select an emoji, I just type, select (with keyboard) and go on with my writing.
        Changing focus to type a search term in a small pupup is non productive.

        I rechecked just now, the search field is gone in Win11, even more useless now… M$ is not even trying, too focused on adding spyware lol