How to use FlyType

Voice dictation that works in any app — plus Notes, Mind, and Self in one account.

Download the client for your platform and link it to your Hub account.

Speak once and see polished text — desktop hotkey or mobile record button.

The floating bar shows level, partial transcript, polish fixes, and hands-free mode.

When voice lands inside FlyType — Mind chat, Self companion, or Notes Inbox — you see the same short toast: Inserted into FlyType.

Dictate into messenger fields from Android Flow Bubble or iPhone FlyType keyboard — clipboard insurance, soft chrome, honest OS limits.

Auto picks online cloud polish or offline on-device STT.

Select text, dictate how to change it — formal, shorter, translate, and more.

Automatic writing tone based on which app you are dictating into.

Speak a trigger phrase to insert saved text blocks.

Say punctuation command words while dictating — FlyType turns them into real marks using rules (no chat AI rewrite).

Choose how FlyType adds commas and periods — spoken commands, speech pauses, or a small punct model. No chat AI rewrite.

Control what leaves your device — cloud polish, history, and Mind upload.

FlyType learns words from your manual corrections automatically.

Create notes, folders, tags, and keep everything in sync.

How delta sync works and what to do when two devices edit the same note.

Classify, structure, and summarize notes with one tap.

Add photos and files to notes — synced and searchable on server.

Read PDF attachments inside a note like a book — scroll pages and show page thumbnails on Mac and Hub.

Closed Orchestration recipes move and tag Notes — Dictate→folder, PDF→Documents, weekly open tasks, capture→daily. No plugin JavaScript.

Hide the note editor behind Touch ID or your Mac password. This is a local privacy gate — not Notes end-to-end encryption.

FlyType share = Team notes for workspace members. There is no Apple Notes-style personal folder invite ACL.

Move vaults between FlyType Notes and Obsidian markdown.

Saved filters — recent voice captures, untagged, team inbox, and custom rules.

Record a note by voice — with a transcript preview before save — via hotkey, widget, share sheet, or in-app Record.

Short thoughts stay in Notes with a transcript preview; meetings and long talks belong in Meetings — with a two-way bridge: Save summary to Notes (folder / Work Desk on Hub+Mac), Open as meeting, and related chips.

Use the Canvas tab to place stickies, photos, tables, and charts on one spatial board for a note — not a second Mind whiteboard and not PDF Document Canvas.

Write or dictate in one editor, then add photos, tables, charts, callouts, and triage the result in Work Desk.

Hybrid ⌘K search, wiki links, synced templates, and AI changes you approve before they touch a draft.

Right-click or long-press folders and notes to rename, move, duplicate, and delete — or drag items onto folders and the root drop zone.

Turn a note, voice capture, or Siri request into a reminder, then complete or snooze it on any signed-in device.

Recordings can stay on your device; cloud upload unlocks speakers, Ask, and summaries.

Long-form mic capture on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android — separate from hold-to-talk dictation.

Upload WAV, M4A, or MP3 from any third-party dictaphone — Free Promise.

Diarization labels speakers on Free — rename them anytime; never paywalled.

Question the transcript with timestamps — Free with a fair rate limit.

Free 180 minutes/month; Pro 1000. Soft warn at 80%; block new uploads at 100%.

Explicit consent before mic recording on every OS, plus Zoom/Teams system audio privacy on desktop.

Soft mic + import on every OS, Free speakers and Ask — without hardware theater.

22 Free curated templates by role — plus Pro custom prompts you can test on a ready meeting.

Download Markdown, subtitles, JSON, or Verified pack (Free) or PDF/DOCX/email (Pro) — and copy executive / actions / full packs in one tap.

From a ready meeting, create or pick a Mind notebook and choose what to save (summary, actions, transcript, decisions). Uses the Meetings → Mind path — not Notes.

Meetings is a library of meeting files: list + folders, then open one File (audio + transcript + protocol + artifacts). Same IA on Hub and apps; local capture without forced Sign in; cloud sync when signed in.

Create a notebook, add a source, and ask a question with citations.

Find notebooks fast with All / Recent / Favorites, pin important work, and start from an empty library without getting lost.

Generate briefings, flashcards, quizzes, and audio overviews from notebook sources.

NotebookLM-style Studio tiles: slides, reports, audio/video presets, instructions, and source filters — without promising cinematic Veo.

Compose an editable Document Pack from a notebook, then download DOCX or XLSX. Soft-flagged (MIND_DOCUMENT_PACK) and Pro/Team for Office export.

Long Studio jobs run in the background — chat stays open while briefing, audio, or slides generate.

Write a note in Mind Studio, then convert it into a notebook source so Chat and Studio can use it as grounded knowledge.

Create a read-only viewer link or iframe embed for briefings and study guides — with optional expiry.

Turn notebook sources into a motion-ready cinematic brief (hook → acts → takeaway) or a chaptered video overview with seekable slides, narration, and downloadable MP4.

Ask live questions during an Audio overview — FlyType streams host steps and a grounded spoken reply without leaving Studio.

Citation chips prove where an answer came from — jump to the passage, see a highlight, or copy the quote when the PDF has no text layer.

Run a multi-step web research job: plan → search → cited draft → staging inbox → confirm import. Works in the background while chat stays usable.

When enabled, Mind chat can search the web, prepare URL imports, generate Studio artifacts, and save notes — only from an allowlist. No arbitrary code execution.

Every notebook gets a recognizable cover — gradient stub instantly, optional AI semantic art by plan quota.

Refresh AI art when sources change, or return to the emoji stub without deleting the notebook.

Editors on Hub and native apps can set a custom cover — no AI quota; auto-cover jobs skip until you choose Regenerate.

Mind chat can answer with structured blocks — not only paragraphs — on Hub and native clients.

One-click persona for data-heavy answers — tables, charts, and concise metrics from your sources.

Turn a rich chat block into a durable Studio artifact with one click.

Control how long and structured Mind answers are — per notebook, on Hub and mobile.

Upload documents, media, code, office, web archives — and fix failed sources.

Mind stores extracted text in the cloud — not a copy of your files. Learn how Skip, Replace, and Allow work when you upload again.

Preview folders or zip archives before upload; choose how to handle duplicates. Your folder stays local — Mind indexes text in the cloud.

Folders organize active notebooks; Archive soft-hides them; Delete removes the notebook.

Mind folders get a themed background from a 100 photo WebP pack — auto by name, or pick manually.

Group active notebooks into folders (depth ≤ 2). Hub, Mac, and Windows support drag-and-drop; iOS/Android use Move.

See Ready / Pending / Failed sources and suggested next actions without leaving the library.

Manage the open notebook from Studio without mixing lifecycle actions into generate tiles — Analyze, Archive, and soft Document Pack / Scripts.

Keep a notebook fresh from a folder, RSS feed, or URL — with health status, limits, and optional weekly digest.

Improve Mind chat on image-only or low-text PDFs with server-side OCR.

Discover pages across a whole site, preview titles and quality hints, then ingest only what you need — no live mirror of the site.

Send dictation history or captures into a notebook source.

Opt-in rules that send dictation, meetings, and tagged notes into the right Mind notebook — with Hub dry-run and offline outbox.

Plan web research, check coverage gaps, analyze articles, and scope chat to selected sources.

Opt-in closed recipes: after a source is ready, auto-analyze; after research ingest, auto-create a research report.

Save quotes from sources, citations, and chat into durable highlight cards — run soft AI Source Actions, Save Insight from chat, filter by color, export Markdown, sync across Hub and native clients.

Optional soft spatial board inside a Mind notebook — place highlight cards, sections, sticky notes, and connectors without replacing Sources | Chat | Studio. Full canvas on Hub; Mac/Windows/iOS/Android soft canvas + Hub deep link (Windows soft canvas: Mind Thinking 1.4).

Button-only curriculum over your notebook sources — set a goal, get a syllabus (live LLM when MIND_TUTOR_MOCK is off; mock fallback), run lessons, and write notes back into Mind. Does not replace Sources | Chat | Studio.

Let Cursor, Claude Code, or the flytype-mind CLI search and write your Mind notebooks over a hosted MCP endpoint. Prod soft canary is ON (Mind Thinking 1.2). Never public without auth — Bearer JWT or a soft mcp_ token.

Soft mock path to import clips as Mind highlights. Live Zotero/Readwise sync is not shipped yet — enable MIND_IMPORT_STUBS only for staging/mock.

Encrypt notebook sources at rest with your account key.

Shared notebooks for team research — sources, chat, and Studio for all members.

Same research-notebook idea — plus voice capture, Team Mind ACL, and Studio that matches your dictation workflow.

Profession Expert notebooks (English Teacher, Accountant, Builder, Lawyer, Doctor, Product Manager) with Tutor learning, learner memory, jurisdiction freshness, and Studio study artifacts — included with Pro or Team.

Personal words and voice-triggered text expanders sync to every device.

Review auto-learned spelling corrections before they join your dictionary. Hub Dictionary shows a pending queue with Accept / Reject.

Suggest features, vote or follow ideas, and get status updates on the public feedback board.

Platform admins and team owners manage users, pricing display, and ops from admin.flytype.ru.

Closed Orchestration packs react to Capture, Email, Meetings, and Self. Dual kill-switch; outbound HTTP only on an allowlisted host. Soft n8n bridge via webhook or http_request — not a connector marketplace.

How dictation, Meetings, Voice, Clipboard, and Automations hand off text and audio without inventing new menu labels.

Trial, Pro, Team — upgrade, invoices, and Stripe portal.

Link Mac, Windows, iOS, or Android to Hub — the app opens `/device?code=…` and auto-links when you are already signed in (Account Link Path A · Friction Cut).

After Hub UX Unify, signed-in Hub uses six primary items, a grouped More menu, one Self hub (Compose/Graph tabs), and Settings tabs via ?tab=.

See incomplete reminders beside Google Calendar busy blocks without exposing calendar event titles.

Link Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android to one Hub account using browser sign-in — desktop returns automatically; mobile uses the system browser.

Manage passkeys, MFA, linked devices, and account deletion from Settings → Security (`/settings?tab=security`) — Authentication, Devices, and Danger sections inside that tab.

Choose how you sign in to FlyType Hub — passkey, Google/Microsoft/Apple OAuth, email link, password, or team SSO.

Invite teammates, SSO, shared dictionary, and team Mind/Notes.

Use your organization’s sign-in provider when it is available on the FlyType Hub login page.

Use Team Admin to review audited changes, manage member roles, and set a retention policy for Team Mind sources.

Understand seat limits, invitations, and the owner’s billing responsibilities for a FlyType Team.

Five-minute persona wizard for Compose and companion voice.

New account, cloud sync off, or no data yet — how to fix each case.

Plain words for the personal layer: what each box stores and what it does not.

A short weekly card that compares persona goals to recent life episodes — suggestions only, not a diagnosis.

Honest parity: Live meeting assist and CoPilot draft shortcuts ship as Beta on macOS only — not on Hub, iOS, Android, or Windows yet.

Voice notes, Save-to-Mind, meetings, and dictionary learnings enrich your Life notebook and persona — all opt-in.

Streaming companion on Hub and native apps: Coach, Analyst, Writer, or Friend modes with Life, graph, and memory context.

Daily and weekly brief cards synthesize goals, recent dictation, Life notebook, and optional Google Calendar context.

Turn a short brief into email, post, or message drafts using Writing DNA persona, tone slider, and Mind/Life citations.

Unified search across notes, Persona Graph, Mind sources, email cache, and episodes — scoped filters and LTR thumbs on Hub.

Opt-in Mind notebook (`flytype:self:life`) that ingests notes, dictation history, voice captures, and weekly recaps for Companion and Memory Search.

People, projects, and goals from your Persona Graph surface as `life_sections` on the Hub Life tab and deep-link into Self → Graph (`/self?tab=graph`).

Life notebook ingest, cloud Self sync, and LLM training opt-out are separate switches — understand what each controls.

Quick voice note hotkey saves to Notes Inbox, then ingests into Life via POST /v1/self/life/capture/note when Life + note sync are on.

Opt-in Life Scripts turn triggers (manual, cron, voice, ingest) into closed actions — append Life pages, companion prompts, reminders, and capture presets without user server code.

One-click Route-to-Life capture preset, voice «save to life», and workflows with use_life_context / append_to_life bridge dictation and meetings into your Life notebook.

After Life ingest, rule-based extractor proposes reminder candidates with citations — accept creates a reminder; dismiss clears the inbox (Mem Agent-style, no screen recording).

The Self graph canvas shows your curated topic map; Companion and search also query a broader cloud index.

On team plans, Personal Memory and Companion stay private per member — team admins cannot browse teammates' Self data.

See and delete persona data, control what syncs to cloud.

Draft emails and messages in your voice using Self persona.

Visual map of notes, Mind sources, and persona links.

Capture copies, search, translate, and insert into any field.

Keep the system clipboard and a second private FlyType buffer — Copy-B never overwrites ⌘V.

Translate any captured clip to your UI language in one tap.

Sort clips into smart collections — links, code, addresses, tasks.

Words per minute, streaks, heatmap, and Voice Profile.

After ~2000 words dictated, FlyType builds a summary of your writing style.

Where FlyType lives on macOS and how to reach every feature.

Control how chatty FlyType is: Quiet, Balanced, or Active — plus quiet hours and the Notification Center.

Choose Manual, Remind, or Insist for update prompts — and what happens when a version is below the fleet minimum.

How FlyType gets a new build on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android — Store honesty on mobile; soft in-place on desktop when enabled.

Switch FlyType sections from a compact top bar or menu — unsaved Notes and Self edits save automatically.

FlyType in the system tray — Ctrl+Shift+D and quick access to Notes, Mind, Clipboard.

Dictate from any app using the FlyType keyboard.

FlyType input method for dictation in any app.

Dictate, capture notes, and create FlyType reminders with Siri and the Shortcuts app.

Recordings can stay on your device; cloud upload unlocks speakers, Ask, and summaries.

Long-form mic capture on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android — separate from hold-to-talk dictation.

Upload WAV, M4A, or MP3 from any third-party dictaphone — Free Promise.

Diarization labels speakers on Free — rename them anytime; never paywalled.

Question the transcript with timestamps — Free with a fair rate limit.

Free 180 minutes/month; Pro 1000. Soft warn at 80%; block new uploads at 100%.

Explicit consent before mic recording on every OS, plus Zoom/Teams system audio privacy on desktop.

Soft mic + import on every OS, Free speakers and Ask — without hardware theater.

22 Free curated templates by role — plus Pro custom prompts you can test on a ready meeting.

Download Markdown, subtitles, JSON, or Verified pack (Free) or PDF/DOCX/email (Pro) — and copy executive / actions / full packs in one tap.

From a ready meeting, create or pick a Mind notebook and choose what to save (summary, actions, transcript, decisions). Uses the Meetings → Mind path — not Notes.

Hub Voice is a synced library of saved clips — not the live dictation HUD that pastes into other apps.

Choose the right place for short dictation, personal voice archive, long meetings, and research audio — plus how Evidence cites sources.

How platform admins set latest and min_supported per OS — and the safe order with CDN uploads.

Fix silent input, permission denials, and mic-in-use errors.

Notes, Mind capture, or settings not uploading — clear the outbox.

A recording rescued after a crash is waiting — retry transcription without losing the audio.

Dictation finishes but nothing appears in the target app.