Dictation

Recording and dictation solve different problems. Recording is for conversations, where who-said-what matters and you want the audio and transcript preserved. Dictation is for you: it turns your speech into text at the cursor, then throws the audio away.

	Recording	Dictation
For	Meetings, conversations	Your own thoughts
Output	Audio + labeled transcript + summary, attached to the note	Plain text at your cursor
Audio kept	Yes	No
Speaker labels	Yes	No — it’s just you

Dictate into a note

Click the dictation button in the editor, talk naturally, click again to stop. You’ll see the live text appear as you speak, then settle into final form. It lands exactly where your cursor was — mid-sentence, mid-list, wherever.

Where else you can dictate

Dictation works in the assistant composer too — press Cmd+L, dictate the question, send. Useful on mobile, where typing a detailed prompt is the slow part.

When to prefer which

• Debriefing yourself after a customer visit → dictation into the account note.
• The customer visit itself → recording (in person).
• “Remember to follow up on the security review” → dictation, then make it a task (tasks and todos).

One habit worth stealing: after any meeting you didn’t record, dictate a two-minute debrief immediately. It’s the cheapest way to make the meeting exist in your workspace at all.