In my other workflows I’ve tended to put emojis inline with headings or even texts, and I have loved the ease of use in other platforms to do inline text for emojis.
For example if I were to write 
it would change to the emoji
Just a small thing that I’d love to see. Its really tedious to have to copy-paste them in, as that’s the only way I am currently able to get them inline with text on pages.
Thanks!
ctrl + E would show up the emoji panel.
Personally speaking, I would prefer ctrl + . (dot) or : (tricolon, as you suggest) though.
I agree with you completely, @laurara! I’ve always found software that support in-line emojis to be really easier and pleasant to use. It would be a great idea to implement this, and I hope it does in the end!
@Eleanor That is the exact shortcut that I was looking for but I didn’t know existed! That should be added to the list of shortcuts in help (maybe in Main->Actions or Main->Text style) if inline will not be supported for a while, which I assume to be the case.
@laurara thanks! We have added this shortcut to help in the last versions.
Also, I do prefer more way of writing emojis. We can implement a suggestion in such a case later