AI Dictation for People with ADHD
Capture the thought before it evaporates. Voice turns the racing-mind problem from a frustration into an externalised stream of notes, drafts, and replies, without sitting down to type.
Why typing is slowing people with ADHD down
Ideas evaporate before the keyboard
A clear thought lands mid-walk, mid-call, or mid-shower, and the shape of it is gone by the time you sit down to type. The notes app fills with half-sentences while the real version of the idea never makes it to the page.
Sitting down to write is the hard part
The thinking is the easy bit — the slow setup, the empty cursor, and the executive-function cost of starting to type is what blocks the work. Voice removes the desk-and-keyboard ritual that turns a five-minute task into a forty-minute one.
Racing thoughts outrun the typing
Three connected points are clear in your head at once, but typing the first one takes long enough that the second and third have collapsed into each other. The captured note is always thinner than the version that was originally in your head.
The apps people with ADHD dictate into
Notion
Capture passing thoughts straight into the project doc, no friction.
Obsidian
Voice-dump ideas into the second-brain vault before they slip.
Gmail
Send the reply now, while the answer is still in your head.
Slack
Respond to threads at thought-speed instead of typing-speed.
Google Docs
Get long-form work moving without the empty-cursor block.
Linear
Capture the ticket idea now, file the details to clean up later.
A day with Amical
- Morning
Walking back from the coffee shop, three things click for the work day ahead. Speak each into Obsidian on the phone in twenty seconds — the captures land before sitting down at the laptop and before the shape slips.
- Late morning
A doc that has been blank for three days. The hard part was starting to type, not knowing the content. Speak through the first messy version in fifteen minutes and edit a real draft instead of staring at the cursor.
- Afternoon
Brain jumping across four threads in Slack and two in Linear. Voice replies in each in the order they pop up, so the captures land while the context is fresh rather than getting deferred and quietly dropped.
- Evening
A burst of ideas about tomorrow at ten p.m. Dictate them into Notion from the sofa in three minutes, log them as tasks, and trust that the morning version of you will see them rather than holding them in working memory all night.
What Amical does for people with ADHD
Capture in bursts, not sessions
A twenty-second voice note while walking, a forty-second one between meetings, a two-minute one at the end of a call — Amical is built for short capture bursts rather than long sit-down sessions. The friction of starting drops to almost zero, which is exactly where most ADHD-style note systems usually break.
Externalise the racing-thought stream
Voice runs at thinking speed, so connected thoughts land on the page in the order they arrived rather than in the order they could be typed. Three-point trains of thought get captured intact instead of collapsing into one thin line, which makes second-brain workflows actually keep up with the way the mind moves.
Push-to-talk, not always-on
Amical is deliberately push-to-talk rather than always-listening. Nothing records until the hotkey is pressed and nothing leaves the machine without an explicit cloud session. Capture happens when you choose, which keeps the system trustworthy enough to use for personal and half-formed thoughts.
What you'd dictate
Experience the future of dictation
Local and Cloud Models
Choose from powerful cloud-based AI models or run everything locally for maximum privacy and control. Switch seamlessly between providers to find the perfect balance of speed, accuracy, and security.
Custom Vocabulary
Customize the AI to recognize your specific terminology, jargon, and proper nouns for industry-specific accuracy and personalized transcription results.
Custom Shortcuts
Create personalized voice commands and shortcuts to streamline your workflow and boost productivity with hands-free operation.
Multi Language Support
Transcribe and dictate in 100+ languages with native-level accuracy. Switch between languages seamlessly or use mixed-language dictation.
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