Guide
Dictating in Notion
Notion is where the long writing happens, which makes it the place where the speed difference between talking and typing actually adds up.
The short answer
Voz types into the Notion page at your cursor, in the desktop app or a browser tab, with no integration to authorise.
Because it inserts text the way a keyboard does, it works inside any block — paragraphs, toggles, callouts, database fields — without knowing anything about Notion.
Setting it up
- Install Voz and grant microphone and accessibility permission when macOS asks.
- Put the cursor in the Notion block you want to fill.
- Hold your push-to-talk key, speak, release.
- Use "new line" between paragraphs; Notion turns each into its own block.
What it is good for
First drafts, mostly. The gap between 150 words a minute spoken and 60 typed compounds over a long page, and the hard part of writing is usually getting something down rather than getting it right the first time.
Also meeting notes, retros, and the kind of page you write immediately after a call while you still remember it. Talking it out while it is fresh beats typing it an hour later from memory.
Notion blocks and dictated text
- Slash commands are typed, not spoken — say the text, then add structure with the keyboard.
- Dictation will not create headings or bullets for you. It fills the block you are in.
- Long dictations are fine, but breaking at natural paragraphs gives you cleaner blocks to edit.
Worth knowing
- Add project names, client names and internal jargon to custom vocabulary. Notion pages are full of them.
- Speech produces longer, looser sentences than typing does. That is useful in a draft and worth a second pass before anyone else reads it.
- Transcription runs on your Mac. For notes about clients, staff or anything under NDA, that is the difference between a private file and an upload.