Dictate in any app · Notes
Evernote has no desktop dictation, which matters because it is built for capture. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Evernote exactly where your cursor was.
From the people who build Typally. If Evernote's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.Nothing on desktop. Evernote's mobile apps use the phone keyboard's microphone, and audio notes record a clip rather than transcribing it into the note.
Evernote's whole promise is capturing things before they are lost. Typing is the slowest capture method available, which is why so many Evernote accounts are full of half-finished notes.
In practice people use it for: Web clippings with your own commentary, meeting notes, receipts and travel details, and the running note for a project.
Setup happens once, outside Evernote, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Evernote before starting.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
Evernote's editor sometimes lags on very long notes, and text can arrive out of order if you dictate faster than it renders. Split long notes.
Typally types into the Evernote editor, so the line of context under a clipped article — why you saved it, what it supports — actually gets written. That single sentence is the difference between a clip you can find in a year and one that is lost in a notebook of hundreds.
Someone clips a long research article and, instead of leaving it to rot in a notebook, dictates two lines underneath: what argument it supports and which project it belongs to. Six months later those two lines are the reason the clip is findable at all.
Dictate a sentence of context under anything you clip. A clipped article with one spoken line about why you saved it is far more useful in a year than the article alone.
Evernote's editor sometimes lags on very long notes, and text can arrive out of order if you dictate faster than it renders. Split long notes.
Audio notes are recordings attached to a note. A dictation tool instead types text into the note body.
Yes — the annotation and comment fields are ordinary text inputs.
A system-level tool is independent of your Evernote plan; it just types.
You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.
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