Dictate in any app · Design
Milanote boards fill with images and references, and the thinking stays unwritten. Typally types what you say straight into Milanote — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Milanote lets you type.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about Milanote is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.None. Note cards and text boxes are typed.
Visual boards are collected quickly — drag an image, drop a link. The note explaining why a reference is there takes typing, so the board becomes a mood collection with no argument behind it.
In practice people use it for: Note cards explaining a reference, creative briefs, project rationale, and the summary of what a board is proposing.
Nothing changes inside Milanote itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:
Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.
The cursor position is the whole instruction — Milanote routes the keystrokes from there.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Clicking empty board space creates a new note. Dictating after a misplaced click leaves text stranded on the canvas.
Typally types into note cards once you have opened one, so every reference on a board can carry a line saying what you want from it. Without those lines a board is a mood collection you cannot present. Open the card first — clicking empty canvas creates a new note instead.
A designer presenting a direction adds one spoken line under each of twenty references — what specifically is being borrowed. The client conversation shifts from taste to reasoning, which is a conversation you can win.
Every reference deserves one dictated line saying what you want from it. Without that, a board is decoration you cannot present.
Clicking empty board space creates a new note. Dictating after a misplaced click leaves text stranded on the canvas.
No. Cards and text boxes are typed.
Yes. Open the card so the cursor is inside it first.
Yes, the same as the web version.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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