Dictate in any app · Publishing
Developer blogging dies at the draft stage, not the publish button. Typally types what you say straight into DEV Community — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere DEV Community lets you type.
Written by the team behind Typally. DEV Community's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.None. The editor is markdown.
Developers have plenty worth writing about and no appetite for writing it. The post that would help hundreds of people stays a folder of notes because turning notes into prose is the part nobody enjoys.
In practice people use it for: Post drafts, code explanations between snippets, series introductions, and comments on other posts.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into DEV Community, setup is the same everywhere:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Make sure DEV Community has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
The editor is markdown, so dictated hashes and backticks become headings and code spans. Speak plain prose.
Typally types into the DEV editor with custom vocabulary handling library and tool names, so a technical post's prose does not need correcting afterwards. Dictate the explanation, paste the code — that split is what makes technical writing fast.
An engineer with a folder of notes on a debugging saga speaks the narrative in eleven minutes. The post goes up that evening after two years of intending to write it.
Explain the problem out loud before you paste any code. The narrative between the snippets is the entire value of a technical post.
The editor is markdown, so dictated hashes and backticks become headings and code spans. Speak plain prose.
No. It uses a markdown editor.
The explanation between the code, not the code. That part is prose and it is the part that gets skipped.
Yes — comment fields are ordinary markdown inputs.
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