Memo 📝
Copy & Meaning

A memo/notepad — representing the act of writing down important information, making notes, and the fundamental organizational habit of externalizing thoughts to paper. The memo is perhaps the most universally understood signal for 'I should write this down' or 'this has been written down.' To-do lists, meeting notes, and reminders all live in memo territory.

'Take a memo' signals importance. Used for note-taking and organizational content, to-do list culture, reminder and agenda settings, recipe and instruction sharing, any information that needs to be retained by being written down, and the very common digital emoji shorthand for 'I'm making note of this' in conversational exchanges.