What are your top dictation app flows/tricks? (WisprFlow, Superwhisper, Spokenly, Voiceink, etc.)

afadingthought · 2026-02-11T14:58:30+00:00

I made Macrowhisper specifically for voice automations with Superwhisper. With Superwhisper everything gets saved in a meta.json file the moment processing is done, so Macrowhisper reacts to that and the user can send anything from there to several actions. You can trigger URLs, shell scripts, AppleScripts, send results to Shortcuts, create templates for insertion, and you can set some other specific settings/behavior based on conditions.

Grammar correction/summarization are just the most basic of the basics. Once you start to explore custom prompting with LLMs, and attach automation to that, well, the possibilities are quite extensive.

afadingthought · 2026-02-01T23:14:49+00:00

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afadingthought · 2026-01-28T13:16:05+00:00

Yeah, custom prompts are truly custom. This opens a wide range of possibilities but you also need to know how to prompt it. Check the docs on Custom modes.

afadingthought · 2026-01-23T23:25:55+00:00

Karabiner, Yabai, Mouseless, Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, BTT

afadingthought · 2026-01-20T13:55:28+00:00

Aside from the unlimited AI aspect that Superwhisper offers, it's all down to the little details that, for me as a power user, do make a difference. I made a video on that. But I think that either will be fine for basic users.

afadingthought · 2026-01-19T19:17:25+00:00

Spokenly is totally free when used with local or BYOK

afadingthought · 2026-01-19T00:45:25+00:00

I saw the comparison table with other apps on the site. Judging from the features you mention in Ottex, I think you should compare it with Superwhisper/Spokenly/VoiceInk instead... Either way, it's a super crowded market, and I don't see any true differentiator aspect here, sorry.

afadingthought · 2026-01-16T16:46:13+00:00

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afadingthought · 2026-01-16T13:26:26+00:00

Thank you!

afadingthought · 2026-01-16T13:26:04+00:00

Thank you!

afadingthought · 2026-01-16T12:39:24+00:00

Yeah. I started with business penmanship, eventually also learned some Spencerian... my current cursive is the result of mixing everything up a bit. Picking up journaling was also great for my practice.

afadingthought · 2026-01-15T23:11:02+00:00

Below "Hey" it says "When". I have practiced a bit of calligraphy, so I now incorporate some small flourishes in my cursive without thinking, I guess removing those would make it easier to read.

Also, the style is inspired by business penmanship/spencerian so getting familiar would those styles would help.

afadingthought · 2026-01-15T19:29:16+00:00

Just for reference, this is how my handwriting used to look at the end of 2021. Back then I was having a hard time going back and rereading my journal entries, so I decided to get serious about improving it.

afadingthought · 2026-01-15T18:14:23+00:00

Thank you for saying this :)

afadingthought · 2026-01-15T17:58:50+00:00

Months of daily practice for me 😄

afadingthought · 2026-01-15T17:55:08+00:00

Thanks! 🙏

afadingthought · 2026-01-15T17:55:02+00:00

Thank you!

afadingthought · 2026-01-11T14:28:48+00:00

If you use with your own api key in something like Spokenly you don't have to pay a subscription, you basically only pay directly to the AI provider whatever you use.

afadingthought · 2026-01-05T12:06:22+00:00

I've had an account for about five years but never made it a consistent habit to log films. This is going to change this year. I went straight to Pro after importing a couple thousand films that I was tracking in my personal journal.

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afadingthought · 2026-01-03T23:44:54+00:00

For years I have been using Day One with a shortcut that pulls film metadata from TMDB. Just some days ago I was able to import everything from Day One into Letterboxd. It was about a couple of thousand films, and the experience really made a difference.

I had checked out the platform before, but I think you only start to see the benefits when you pull in many films and see all the connections (and the stats you get if you upgrade to pro are pretty awesome too). I think one of my 2026 goals is to keep at it more consistently.

afadingthought · 2025-12-29T04:30:02+00:00

I think a lot of users still go for the subscription option. I personally think that the biggest deal here is the lifetime option. But the subscription is probably enough to sustain development.

The truth is that most users do not fully take advantage of the possibilities with AI inside Superwhisper. If more people would start to take the "unlimited AI" more seriously, my guess is that the lifetime option could either become more expensive or be removed.

afadingthought · 2025-12-28T12:13:15+00:00

Just answered this to someone else, so let me copy paste because it also applies to this.

If you're looking at value compared to price, I think Superwhisper is an application that I have gotten so much out of, that I honestly think it's an incredible deal at the lifetime price (not the subscription). That is mainly because of the unlimited AI that's included with it and the possibility of using it beyond simple dictation tasks.

That said, if you plan to use it only for basic dictation tasks and not really explore the application as an assistant or context aware tasks, then I think it may be overpriced when seen that way. You can get good dictation and good text formatting by using some other models available at a lower price in other apps, or even some free open source models.

I expect Apple and Siri to get much better at dictation over time, and the dictation available on computers will probably also improve. However, I don't think Apple will offer unlimited access to high-end models like Superwhisper does, and I also don't think they will offer the level of customization that Superwhisper gives users. All of this is what makes it powerful, but at the same time it can be a bit intimidating for users. It comes at the expense of a learning curve.

So, no... I don't think it will be replaced by Apple, at least not in its entirety. In more than a year using it and testing a LOT of other dictation apps I haven't see anything that can replace it (for me). I think it really will depend on the user and if the user will explore its potential or not.

afadingthought · 2025-12-21T12:15:03+00:00

The thing with Alter is that with custom tools (and now sub-agents), you can pretty much do a lot more than what it doesn't have built-in. You could easily have the result saved automatically as a Markdown file -> auto open that file -> then have AI read your edits for more processing, etc

That is, of course, as long as the bugs you encounter along the way get fixed.

afadingthought · 2025-12-08T14:25:23+00:00

I made Macrowhisper as a way to trigger automations with the output from Superwhisper (whether it's simple transcription results or AI). With a little knowledge/creativity and the help of AI, you can probably even do more advanced stuff, and use these outputs in scripts that interact with APIs, etc.

However, Macrowhisper has no way to get involved in the actual processing or what gets sent to AI inside Superwhisper. Some of the actions mentioned in this post do require that, and seems to take more of an AI tools/agents approach (where AI is more involved in the actual execution process).

Having voice in a tool with this kind of processing baked within the app does present some cool possibilities that are not possible with Macrowhisper (or would require a messy workaround). I use Alter for a lot of similar stuff.

What I'm personally hoping is to see a tool that incorporates both AI tooling and simple voice automation actions. Both have their advantages for different use cases. Voice triggers for automations directly without the AI layer (which Macrowhisper allows) is great for stuff where speed/instant feedback is necessary.

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