Pick one, tap it, paste it anywhere. Every symbol here is plain text, so it works in bios, emails, docs and chats.
They’re the little marks that sit in front of a line and say “this is its own thing”. A dot, a square, an arrow. Your eye reads a list in half the time because each item announces where it starts.
Here’s the part people miss: these are real text characters, not pictures. They copy like letters, scale with your font size and pick up your text colour. That’s why they survive a paste into almost anywhere.
•Three moves, and the third one is where lists start to look professional.
Dots are neutral. Arrows push forward. Checks say “done”. Stars say “look here”.
Tapping copies the symbol. Paste it at the start of a line, add a space, and type your point.
Solid for the main point, hollow beneath it, tiny square below that.
Anywhere the formatting toolbar isn’t available. If you can type in it, you can bullet in it.
Bios have little room, so a dot between ideas does the job of a list.
Plain-text emails can’t do formatted lists. Symbols always arrive intact.
Status updates read faster when each line starts with a colour or a tick.
Stay with • ◦ or ▪ here. Résumé scanners can stumble on fancy shapes.
Bold shapes guide the eye when you’re talking over the slide.
Shop descriptions often strip formatting, so ticks keep features scannable.
Don’t have this page open? These shortcuts give you the classic • from your keyboard.
••\2022\u2022content, then JavaScript strings.More copy-and-paste tools from the same family.