Set up connections and use Slack

Connections give Dictate more context: meetings for notes and your documents for writing. Open Settings›Connections. Each connection has a row with its state and one action.

What Connections holds

Under Local documents, Add folder adds a folder. The row shows the number of files, and while it reads, Reading … with the progress. If a folder is missing, it shows Folder not found. Remove takes the folder off the list.

Connect Slack

You connect your own Slack account.

Cancel stops the waiting. Dictate keeps the Slack access encrypted on this computer. Dictate reads nothing from Slack and sends nothing to Slack without your click.

Share a summary in Slack

The message goes to Slack only when you click Send, under your name. Then Dictate shows Sent to with the target. Open in Slack opens the message in Slack.

If the note has no summary yet, the dialog shows Create a summary first. Then you can share it. If Slack is not connected yet, Go to Connectors leads to the Slack row.

Use messages as context

This is off until you switch it on. It works only for notes of a calendar meeting.

Before it summarises a calendar meeting, Dictate reads the last 7 days of messages in the channels you picked. Only messages that name the meeting topic go into the summary. For this they go to MediSync together with the transcript. Dictate reads only messages in channels you are a member of, and no thread replies.

Under such a summary, Dictate says how many Slack messages from which channels it used as context.

Disconnect Slack

In the Slack row, click Disconnect. Dictate signs out of Slack and deletes the access on this computer.

Messages from Slack