Okay, first things first: I’m stealing this idea straight from Wunderlist. Wunderlist has this nice little UI feature where, when your list title starts with an Emoji, the Emoji will be used as the list’s icon (instead of the standard “document” icon.)
Take a look at my current list of Dynalist documents:
With the described tweak applied, this list would now look like this:
Let’s make those damn emojis useful. 
H.
