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Voice typing in Reflect

Reflect is built around daily notes, which only work if you write them daily. Typally types what you say straight into Reflect — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Reflect lets you type.

Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Reflect already does without talking you out of using it.
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In short

  • Reflect's own dictation: AI features for summarising and asking questions of your notes.
  • What Typally does instead: covers Reflect and every other program on the machine with one hotkey.
  • Best used for: daily notes

Does Reflect have built-in dictation?

AI features for summarising and asking questions of your notes.

Why dictate in Reflect at all?

A daily-notes practice survives on how cheap the daily note is. Typing makes it a small chore, and small daily chores are abandoned within a month.

In practice people use it for: Daily notes, meeting notes, backlinked thinking, and reading reflections.

How to dictate in Reflect

Nothing changes inside Reflect itself. Typally sits in the tray and types into the focused window:

1

Install Typally

Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.

2

Click into the right box in Reflect first

Click first. Typally types into Reflect wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.

3

Hold the hotkey and talk

Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.

4

Read it before you move on

Backlink syntax uses brackets. Speak the prose and add links by keyboard.

What Typally adds in Reflect

Typally types into Reflect so a daily note costs ninety seconds of talking instead of five minutes of typing. Habits are decided by cost rather than intention, and that difference is what makes a daily practice survive a busy fortnight.

What this looks like in practice

Someone who had abandoned daily notes twice starts speaking them for ninety seconds at the end of each day. Three months later the practice has survived, which is longer than either previous attempt.

One habit that makes it work better

Speak the daily note at a fixed time — end of day, or on the walk back to the desk. Habits survive on cost, not intention.

What to watch out for in Reflect

Backlink syntax uses brackets. Speak the prose and add links by keyboard.

Frequently asked questions

Does Reflect have dictation?

Its AI queries your notes; capture is typed.

Why do daily notes practices fail?

Cost. A note that takes five minutes to type gets skipped on busy days, and skipping compounds.

Can I dictate meeting notes?

Yes, and notes captured immediately after a meeting are markedly more accurate.

Try it in Reflect

Start on the free plan (100 minutes a month, no card). Pro lifts the cap and adds meeting notes for $7.99/month.

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