Dictate in any app · Docs
Quip puts a chat thread beside every document, so discussion and text compete. Typally puts your words into Quip the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Quip's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.None. Documents, spreadsheets and chat are typed.
The conversation in the margin is where decisions get made, and it moves at chat speed. Long, careful contributions lose to quick ones, which is how documents end up agreed by whoever typed fastest.
In practice people use it for: Document text, margin chat, spreadsheet notes, and the summary of what a thread concluded.
There is no Quip extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Click first. Typally types into Quip wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
Quip's chat sends on Enter while the document autosaves. Two different behaviours in the same window.
Typally types into both the document and the margin chat, so when a thread reaches a decision the summary can go into the document itself. Chat scrolls away and the document is what people read next month, which is the whole reason to move the conclusion across.
A product decision argued across forty chat messages gets a four-sentence spoken summary at the top of the document. Three weeks later nobody has to reread the thread to find out what was decided.
When a thread reaches a decision, dictate a summary into the document itself. Chat scrolls away; the document is what people read next month.
Quip's chat sends on Enter while the document autosaves. Two different behaviours in the same window.
No. Documents and chat are both typed.
Yes, though longer text belongs in a document section rather than a cell.
Yes — embedded or standalone, the text fields behave the same.
The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.
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