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Tumblr rewards long, discursive posts of the kind nobody wants to type. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Tumblr without you touching the keyboard.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Tumblr has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.None. The post editor is typed.
Tumblr's culture is essays, tangents and long tags. That is a lot of writing for a platform people use casually, which is why so many posts are a reblog with no commentary.
In practice people use it for: Original text posts, commentary on a reblog, long tags, and ask replies.
Setup happens once, outside Tumblr, and then applies to every program on the machine:
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Text goes wherever Tumblr has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
The editor converts markdown-ish characters in places, and tags are a separate field with their own behaviour.
Typally types into the post editor, so a long discursive post costs about as long as saying it out loud. The register that suits Tumblr — conversational, digressive, unpolished — is exactly what speaking produces naturally.
Someone who mostly reblogged silently starts speaking a paragraph of commentary each time. Their posts start circulating, because commentary is what gives a reblog somewhere to go.
Add real commentary when you reblog. A reblog with a paragraph is what actually circulates; a bare reblog adds nothing and is forgotten.
The editor converts markdown-ish characters in places, and tags are a separate field with their own behaviour.
No. Its editor is typed.
You can, though tags are short and the field behaves differently from the post body.
Well — the platform's register is conversational, which is what spoken text naturally is.
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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