aamoji For Mac

aamoji is an unobtrusive OS X utility that works in the background and brings to your Mac a collection of keyboard shortcuts designed to help you use emoticons in any app that provides support for the ideograms.

When you launch the aamoji application, the welcoming panel includes basic usage instructions and allows you to actually install the hotkeys. You do not have to restart the system for the change to take effect, but you do need to relaunch any app in which you want to use the hotkeys.

The aamoji window also provides support for quickly removing the emoji hotkeys from your system. The app offers to launch the Notes utility so you can test the shortcuts or to display the list of all included hotkeys.

The aamoji collection includes more than 800 different ideograms and smileys, and each entry can have multiple hotkeys. The general rule is that you must add “aa” before the name of each emoji. Naturally, memorizing all the possible options might take some time.

The aamoji utility is based on the Mac OS X autocorrect function that is integrated into most applications. As soon as you type the correct hotkey, the autocorrect will take effect and replace the text with the definition provided by aamoji.

For the aamoji hotkeys to work properly, you must make sure that the application you are using has both the autocorrect feature enabled and comes with support for using emojis.

To sum up, aamoji comes with an extensive collection of autocorrect definitions and can automatically replace pieces of text with the associated emoji.

Even though the emojis list is quite long, the hotkey pattern is really easy to memorize, so it should not be very hard to remember the combinations for the frequently used ideograms and smileys.