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Voice typing in Capacities

Capacities organises notes by object type, which rewards writing about things properly. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Capacities accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.

Written by the team behind Typally. Capacities's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.
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In short

  • Capacities's own dictation: AI features by plan. No dictation.
  • What Typally does instead: covers Capacities and every other program on the machine with one hotkey.
  • Best used for: object notes for people

Does Capacities have built-in dictation?

AI features by plan. No dictation.

Why dictate in Capacities at all?

Object-based note-taking means every person, book and meeting gets its own page. That is a lot of pages, each needing content, and empty objects make the structure pointless.

In practice people use it for: Object notes for people, books and meetings, daily notes, and the connections between them.

How to dictate in Capacities

Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into Capacities, setup is the same everywhere:

1

Start with the install

Windows or macOS build, signed in once.

2

Focus the Capacities field you want the words in

Make sure Capacities has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.

3

Hold the hotkey and talk

Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.

4

Read it before you move on

The editor uses markdown-style formatting, so dictated punctuation can create structure.

What Typally adds in Capacities

Typally types into any object's editor, so filling a new object costs seconds rather than being deferred indefinitely. In a system where structure is free and content is not, that is the constraint worth removing.

What this looks like in practice

Someone tracking people they meet at conferences speaks three sentences into each new person object. A year later those notes are what make a follow-up feel like continuing a conversation.

One habit that makes it work better

Write a couple of real sentences on each object when you create it. An object with a title and nothing else is worse than no object, because it looks like coverage.

What to watch out for in Capacities

The editor uses markdown-style formatting, so dictated punctuation can create structure.

Frequently asked questions

Does Capacities have voice input?

No. Its AI assists; capture is typed.

Why do object-based systems stall?

Because creating an object is easy and filling it is not. Empty objects give a false sense of coverage.

Can I dictate into any object type?

Yes — they are all ordinary editors underneath.

Try it in Capacities

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