The first thing I install on a client's machine is Wispr Flow. Before Claude. Everything else goes faster when you can talk instead of type. Of all my tools, this is the one that saves me the most hours.
Wispr Flow is dictation that works in every app. You hold down a key, talk, let go. The text is there, without the ums, with full stops and paragraphs. Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android. And since this year: a note-taker on Mac and Windows that notices when you have a meeting and offers to take notes.
Four things I use it for every day
1. Briefing Claude
When I hand Claude a task, I talk it in. What it should do, who it is for, what must not happen. A minute of talking is about 150 words. That is more context than I would have typed, and Claude answers better when it knows more.
2. Emails and DMs
Client replies and messages on Instagram I dictate, read through, fix a word, send. The reply comes out longer and friendlier than when I type it, because it costs me nothing to explain properly.
3. Thoughts on the go
A debrief after a meeting, an idea on a walk, three things to remember. I talk it into my phone while it is fresh. Later I pull it up in Claude and ask it to sort it into notes, tasks or a draft. What used to become half a page of hastily typed notes is now fifteen minutes of talking that is already structured when I sit down at the computer.
4. Meetings
If I have a meeting in Google Meet, Wispr Flow notices and asks whether to take notes. One click, and it records the whole meeting and writes minutes when we hang up. The minutes go on to Claude, which writes the draft of the proposal the client and I just talked about. From meeting to proposal in the inbox the same afternoon, without me typing a word of it.
Wispr Flow now has its own connector for Claude. You find it under Customize, Connectors, Discover, with Connect to Claude, or in Wispr Flow under Settings, MCP, Add to Claude. Switch it on in the conversation under the plus, Connectors. Then Claude fetches the minutes, the transcript and the tasks from the meeting itself. It can only read, not change anything. And remember to tell the others in the meeting that it is being recorded.
Danish: what works, and what trips it up
Danish works. The sentences come out clean, and it removes the ums I don't hear myself.
What trips it up is names. Flodesk becomes "Blue Desk". The fix is the dictionary in the app: type the name in once, and it spells it correctly from then on. My clients' names, my tools and my own products live there.
Talk the way you talk to a colleague.
That is the only technique. The more you talk in whole sentences, the better the text gets. Staccato dictation with "full stop" and "new line" is not needed.
How to get started
1. Get the app
Through the link at the top of the page. The free plan gives you 2,000 words a week on the computer. That is enough to find out whether it is for you.
2. Choose your key
On Mac I hold down fn. Choose a key your hand finds without looking.
3. Add your names to the dictionary
Clients, tools, products. Ten minutes that save you a correction in every single email.
Price
Free plan with 2,000 words a week on the computer and the note-taker for a limited number of meetings. Pro costs 15 dollars a month, or 12 dollars a month billed yearly, and gives you unlimited dictation and more meetings. I am on Pro. The free allowance runs out in the middle of a Tuesday.
I am a Wispr Flow affiliate. If you buy through my link, I get a share. The price is the same for you, and I installed it for clients long before there was a link.
Wispr Flow is the voice in my setup. The rest of the tools, and what each of them is hired to do, are in my tech stack.
