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Voice typing in Trello

Trello cards are titles by default, and a title alone rarely survives two weeks. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Trello accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.

Written by the team behind Typally. Trello's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.
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In short

  • Trello's own dictation: None. Card descriptions, comments and checklists are plain fields.
  • What Typally does instead: puts text wherever the cursor is, in Trello or in anything else you have open.
  • Best used for: card descriptions

Does Trello have built-in dictation?

None. Card descriptions, comments and checklists are plain fields.

Why dictate in Trello at all?

Trello's speed is its appeal — a card takes seconds. The consequence is boards full of three-word cards that made sense on the day and mean nothing by the next sprint.

In practice people use it for: Card descriptions, comments, checklist items with context, and the card that captures a decision.

How to dictate in Trello

Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Trello:

1

Start with the install

Windows or macOS build, signed in once.

2

Open Trello and click where you want the text

Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Trello before starting.

3

Hold, say it, release

Nothing truncates part-way through.

4

Read it before you move on

Trello saves the description on clicking away, not on Enter. Dictated text left unsaved disappears if you navigate off the card.

What Typally adds in Trello

Typally types into card descriptions and comments, so every card can carry one sentence saying why it exists. That sentence costs about eight seconds and is the difference between a board you can pick up cold and one you have to reconstruct. Click away to save — Trello saves descriptions on blur, not on Enter.

What this looks like in practice

Somebody adds fourteen cards during a planning session and speaks one sentence into each. Three weeks later, when the board is picked up again, nobody has to guess what 'fix the thing' meant.

One habit that makes it work better

Give every card one dictated sentence of why it exists. It costs eight seconds and it is the difference between a board you can pick up cold and one you have to reconstruct.

What to watch out for in Trello

Trello saves the description on clicking away, not on Enter. Dictated text left unsaved disappears if you navigate off the card.

Frequently asked questions

Does Trello have dictation?

No. Card titles, descriptions, checklists and comments are all plain typed inputs, on the web and in the desktop client alike.

Can I dictate a Trello checklist?

One item at a time. Each checklist item is a separate field, so create the item, speak it, create the next. Trying to dictate the whole list into one item just gives you a very long single item.

Does dictation work in Trello Power-Ups?

If a Power-Up exposes a normal text box, dictated words land in it the same as typed ones. Power-Ups that render custom widgets may capture keystrokes differently, so test one before relying on it.

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