Haven’t tried it myself, but another cool way is to send images and other files to your phone as attachments to a notification:
Iron Law of Bureaucracy: the downwards deletionism spiral discourages contribution and is how Wikipedia will die…
Most abbreviations are pretty straightforward & become second nature if you use them regularly, but for starters you could make a cheatsheet with commands you plan to use.
Also, you could look into this open-source project: https://github.com/eykrehbein/bang
It’d be cool if you could also dial an SMS with that thing