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GitLab merge requests and issues carry the reasoning, and reasoning takes sentences. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into GitLab without you touching the keyboard.
From the people who build Typally. If GitLab's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.None. Descriptions and comments are markdown fields.
GitLab is often the whole workflow — issues, MRs, CI, docs, wiki — so almost all project knowledge is written there. Whatever does not get typed does not exist anywhere.
In practice people use it for: Merge request descriptions, issue reports, threaded review comments, epic descriptions, and wiki pages.
Setup happens once, outside GitLab, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Windows or macOS build, signed in once.
Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in GitLab before starting.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
GitLab supports quick actions starting with a slash, so a dictated slash at the start of a line can trigger a command like closing an issue.
Typally types into merge request descriptions, threaded review comments and wiki pages from one key. Speaking the tradeoff up front is what prevents the long comment thread defending it afterwards. Watch for dictated slashes at the start of a line — GitLab reads those as quick actions.
An engineer proposing a schema change dictates four paragraphs covering the migration path, the rollback plan and what happens to old rows. The review takes one round instead of the usual three days of questions.
Explain the tradeoff in the merge request rather than defending it in comments later. One spoken paragraph up front prevents a long thread.
GitLab supports quick actions starting with a slash, so a dictated slash at the start of a line can trigger a command like closing an issue.
No. All text entry is typed markdown.
Yes — the wiki editor is a standard markdown field.
Slash commands typed into a comment, like /close or /assign. A dictated slash can trigger one accidentally.
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