Draft

Plain dictation pastes your words the moment you stop. Draft is different: you speak an instruction, Amical generates the text, and it waits in a review window so you can read it before anything lands in your document.

Draft is marked Alpha: it ships and works, but the behaviour may still change.

How to use

1. Hold the Draft shortcut — default Fn+Ctrl on macOS, Ctrl+Win+Alt on Windows.
2. Speak your instruction, for example "reply that I'll join the call five minutes late."
3. Release the key. Amical generates a draft and opens the review window.
4. Press Enter to insert it into whatever app has focus.

The review window

The generated text sits in a floating window above your work. You can select and scroll it, then:

• Insert — press Enter, or click Insert, to paste the draft into the focused app and close the window.
• Copy — click Copy to put the draft on your clipboard instead. The button reads Copied for a moment.
• Dismiss — press Esc, or click the ✕ in the top corner, to discard the draft without pasting.

The window stays open until you insert or dismiss it — it won't disappear on its own.

Redo a draft

Not happy with the result? With the review window still open, hold the Draft shortcut again and speak a new instruction. The window shows Listening… while you talk and Drafting… while it generates, then swaps in the new text. Enter is disabled during this step, so you can't insert the old draft by accident.

Draft is push-to-talk only — the hands-free toggle won't start it.

Notes

• The shortcut lives under Settings → Shortcuts → Draft; rebind it like any other (Shortcuts).
• Draft writes from your spoken instruction; plain dictation types your words as-is. Reach for Draft when you want Amical to compose something, not transcribe what you said.