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Internal tools are built fast and inherited slowly, with no documentation in between. Typally puts your words into Retool the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Written by the team behind Typally. Retool's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.None. Component descriptions and notes are typed.
A Retool app is built in an afternoon to solve one team's problem, then becomes load-bearing. Nobody documents which query does what, and the person who built it has moved teams.
In practice people use it for: App descriptions, query comments, component notes, and the README explaining what an internal tool is for.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Retool:
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Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Retool before starting.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Retool mixes SQL, JavaScript and configuration. Dictate the comments and descriptions, not the queries.
Typally types into app descriptions and query comments, so an internal tool built in an afternoon does not become an unmaintainable mystery. Recording which queries write to the database and which only read prevents the worst class of internal-tool accident, and takes seconds to say.
An internal admin tool with a delete button nobody understood gets a spoken description on each query. It turns out two buttons hit production directly, which is corrected the same day.
Write down which queries write to the database and which only read. That single distinction prevents the worst class of accident in an internal tool.
Retool mixes SQL, JavaScript and configuration. Dictate the comments and descriptions, not the queries.
No. All text entry is typed.
What the tool does, who it is for, and which actions are destructive.
Not practically — SQL is symbol-dense. Comment it instead.
You can try this on the free plan — 100 minutes a month, no card, no trial countdown.
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