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Todoist parses typed natural language brilliantly, which makes dictation into it a mixed blessing. Typally types what you say straight into Todoist — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Todoist lets you type.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Todoist's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.None on desktop. Its quick-add parses typed phrases like 'tomorrow at 3' into real dates.
Task titles are short, so typing them is fine. The description field, where you record why the task exists and what done looks like, is where things get abandoned.
In practice people use it for: Task descriptions, comments, project notes, and the weekly review where you write what actually happened.
Because Typally types at the system level rather than plugging into Todoist, setup is the same everywhere:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Todoist decides where the text lands, not Typally.
The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.
Quick-add interprets words like 'tomorrow' and 'every Monday' as scheduling instructions, so a dictated sentence containing them can set a due date you did not intend.
Typally types into the description and comment fields — deliberately not the title, because Todoist's quick-add parses date words out of typed text and a dictated 'tomorrow' will set a due date you did not intend. Type the title, speak the description, and the natural-language parsing stays intact.
Someone doing a weekly review dictates two lines into each of the six tasks that keep rolling over, explaining what is actually blocking them. Four turn out to be blocked on the same thing, which was invisible while they were bare titles.
Type the task title so the natural-language date parsing works, then dictate the description. Speaking a date is where dictation and Todoist's parser disagree most.
Quick-add interprets words like 'tomorrow' and 'every Monday' as scheduling instructions, so a dictated sentence containing them can set a due date you did not intend.
Not on desktop. Mobile relies on the phone keyboard's microphone.
Todoist's quick-add parses date words out of the text. Type titles with dates, dictate descriptions.
Yes. Open the task and click into the comment field.
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