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Roam is built on the idea that thinking gets captured as it happens. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Roam Research without you touching the keyboard.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about Roam Research is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.None. Blocks are typed.
Networked note-taking only works if enough notes exist to network. Typing is the tax on every idea entering the system, and a graph with forty notes in it is just an awkward outliner.
In practice people use it for: Daily notes, block-level thoughts, literature notes, and the long-form thinking that accumulates into an argument.
There is no Roam Research extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.
Make sure Roam Research has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Roam's blocks respond to brackets and slashes. A dictated bracket can open a page reference or an autocomplete menu mid-sentence.
Typally types into the daily note, so a thought can be captured before you decide where it belongs — which is the decision that stops most captures happening. Dictate prose and add the double-bracket links by keyboard, since a spoken bracket opens Roam's autocomplete mid-sentence.
Someone whose graph had stalled at fifty notes starts speaking into the daily note whenever a thought arrives. Two months later the graph has enough in it that the connections become the reason to open it.
Dictate into the daily note and link it later. Deciding where an idea belongs at the moment of capture is what stops the capture happening.
Roam's blocks respond to brackets and slashes. A dictated bracket can open a page reference or an autocomplete menu mid-sentence.
No. All blocks are typed.
Spoken brackets rarely land right. Dictate the prose and add links with the keyboard.
Yes — the same as the browser version.
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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