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Smokeball automatically tracks time, which leaves the narrative as the remaining work. Typally types what you say straight into Smokeball — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Smokeball lets you type.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about Smokeball is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.Automatic time capture and document automation. No dictation of your own speech.
Automatic time tracking records that you spent forty minutes in a document. It cannot record why, or what you decided, and the narrative is what a client queries and a costs assessor reads.
In practice people use it for: Time entry narratives, file notes, attendance notes, and client correspondence.
There is no Smokeball extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
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Make sure Smokeball has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Client confidentiality is a professional obligation. Audio goes to a third-party transcription service, so check your regulator's guidance before dictating matter content.
Typally types the narrative into Smokeball's fields, complementing what its automatic capture already records. The combination — machine-captured duration, human-captured reasoning — is what makes a time entry defensible rather than merely accurate.
A solicitor pairs Smokeball's automatic capture with a spoken narrative after each task. The monthly bill goes out with entries nobody queries, which had not been true before.
Let the software capture the time and speak the narrative immediately after. Automatic capture plus a dictated reason is a genuinely complete record.
Client confidentiality is a professional obligation. Audio goes to a third-party transcription service, so check your regulator's guidance before dictating matter content.
It has automatic time capture and document automation, not speech-to-text for your notes.
The reason. It knows how long, never why, and why is what gets queried.
That is a professional judgement. Audio is transmitted to a third party, which your regulator may treat as significant.
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