There are various ways to make inserting emojis easier.
You can pull up the emoji keyboard by hitting ctrl+⌘+space
Right click on your taskbar and enable "show touch keyboard button". Click on the keyboard that is next to your taskbar clock. Click on the smile face to find and insert emoji.
Install package for autocomplete-emojis. In the package settings, check the box for "Enable Unicode Emojis".
Atom can also help with using emoji in commit message by installing git-plus
Install package for GithubEmoji.
Install package for Vim-emoji.
Add set completefunc=emoji#complete to .vimrc and then run emoji completion with CTRL-X CTRL-U
Create an .npmrc file and set the message value.
message = "🔖 %s"Install emoji-cheat-sheet-plus.
Bring up the emoji buffer with:
M-x emoji-cheat-sheet-plus-insert