Dictate in any app · HR
Weekly check-ins are answered honestly for a month and then reduced to one line. Typally types what you say straight into 15Five — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere 15Five lets you type.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where 15Five has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.None. Check-in answers and feedback are typed.
The premise is fifteen minutes to write and five to read. In practice week four's answers are three words, because typing a considered reflection every Friday competes with finishing actual work.
In practice people use it for: Weekly check-in answers, priority updates, feedback for colleagues, and one-to-one agenda items.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside 15Five:
Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — 15Five decides where the text lands, not Typally.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Check-in answers are read by your manager and sometimes stored long term. Write with that in mind.
Typally types into 15Five's check-in fields, turning a Friday chore into ninety seconds of talking. That is the difference between a ritual that keeps working and one everybody quietly abandons by the second month.
Someone whose check-ins had degenerated to 'all good' starts speaking them instead. The answers become three real paragraphs, and their manager starts catching problems in week one rather than at the retrospective.
Answer the check-in out loud on the way to something else. Spoken reflection is what the format was designed to capture, and typing is what kills it by week four.
Check-in answers are read by your manager and sometimes stored long term. Write with that in mind.
No. Answers are typed.
Because writing a considered answer weekly is a real cost. Reducing that cost is what keeps them honest.
Yes — the same fields accept text however it arrives.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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