The problem
The best ideas come when you’re not at your desk. On a walk, in the shower, lying in bed at 2 AM. You can’t always sit down and write, but you can always speak.
The hard part is turning those scattered recordings into actual writing. You have dozens of voice notes, but stitching them together takes hours.
The workflow
Step 1: Dictate freely
Whenever an idea strikes, open Letterly and record. Don’t edit yourself. Speak in fragments, full sentences, or stream of consciousness — Letterly captures and transcribes everything.
- A scene you want to write
- A memory you don’t want to forget
- An argument for your blog post
- Character dialogue that popped into your head
- Research observations while traveling
Step 2: Ask AI to find the threads
Find all my notes about the childhood memories chapter. What themes keep coming up?
The AI searches through your entire note library and identifies patterns, recurring themes, and connections you might not have noticed.
Step 3: Draft from your voice
Take my last five notes about the product launch and weave them into a blog post draft. Keep my voice and tone.
The AI uses your actual words as raw material. The result sounds like you, because it started as you.
Step 4: Iterate
The draft is good but too long. Cut it to 800 words and make the opening stronger.
I recorded a new note with more details about the ending. Find it and incorporate it into the draft.
Prompts to try
Find all my notes tagged with the book project and create an outline based on the topics I’ve covered
Take my voice note from this morning’s walk and turn it into a newsletter draft
I’ve been recording memories about my grandmother. Find them all and organize them chronologically.
Combine my notes from the conference into a recap article with key takeaways
Find my notes about the introduction chapter and suggest what’s missing based on the overall outline
What you can write
- Books and memoirs — dictate chapters in pieces, then assemble them with AI
- Blog posts — capture ideas throughout the day, publish a polished post by evening
- Newsletters — collect observations all week, send a cohesive newsletter on Friday
- Journals — speak your reflections, get a beautifully formatted entry
- Social media — turn a 2-minute voice note into a thread or a LinkedIn post
Who this is for
- Authors writing books, memoirs, or essays who think better out loud
- Bloggers and newsletter writers who want to create more content with less screen time
- Content creators repurposing spoken ideas into written formats
- Anyone who has a story to tell but struggles to sit down and type it
Get started
- Download Letterly and start dictating your thoughts
- Connect your AI assistant via MCP — Claude, ChatGPT, or another client
- Ask the AI to turn your voice notes into writing