Dictate in any app · Docs
Slab is a wiki that looks pleasant and still needs somebody to write in it. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Slab without you touching the keyboard.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Slab has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.None. The editor is typed.
Every team that buys a wiki intends to document things. What defeats the intention is that a good page takes an hour to type and the person who knows the material has other work.
In practice people use it for: Team documentation, onboarding guides, decision records, meeting notes, and process descriptions.
Setup happens once, outside Slab, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Text goes wherever Slab has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.
The editor supports markdown shortcuts, so dictated punctuation can create formatting.
Typally types into Slab's editor, which changes documentation from an hour of typing into a few minutes of explaining. Speaking also produces the right level of detail, because you naturally explain to a person rather than writing for a document.
An engineer documents the deploy process by talking through it as if onboarding someone. The page exists by the end of a coffee break, having been a ticket for two quarters.
Write the onboarding guide by explaining the thing to an imaginary new starter out loud. That produces the right level of detail, which written attempts consistently miss.
The editor supports markdown shortcuts, so dictated punctuation can create formatting.
No. Its editor is typed.
Because writing a good page is an hour of typing for someone whose job is something else.
Yes, and notes written immediately are far more accurate than notes written later.
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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