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Craft Integration

The short answer: open Craft, click into any document block, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux), speak for 30-90 seconds, and AICHE inserts polished text ready for Craft's formatting tools.

Craft produces beautiful documents. The block-based editor, the card layouts, the typography, the native feel on Apple devices. People choose Craft because the output looks professional without wrestling with layout tools. But beautiful output still requires input, and the input is typing. Product specs, design briefs, project proposals, daily journals - all of this content enters Craft one keystroke at a time. AICHE handles the raw text generation so you can focus on what Craft does best: making that text look good.

1. Open Craft on your Mac, iPad, or in the browser.
2. Create a new document or open an existing one.
3. Click to position your cursor in any text block.
4. Press your AICHE hotkey (⌃+⌥+R on Mac, Ctrl+Alt+R on Windows/Linux) to start recording.
5. Speak your content naturally. Describe, explain, or narrate without worrying about formatting.
6. Press the hotkey again. AICHE transcribes and inserts the text at your cursor.
7. Use Craft's block controls to format, rearrange, and style the content.

Document Drafting and Product Specs

Craft's document structure uses blocks that you can rearrange, nest, and style independently. This makes it well-suited for product specs, project briefs, and design documents where content needs to be organized into clear sections. The challenge is producing the content fast enough that drafting doesn't become a bottleneck.

With AICHE, open your spec template in Craft and dictate each section separately. Click into the Goals block and speak the project objectives. Move to Requirements and dictate each feature need. Move to Timeline and speak the milestones and deadlines. Each section gets its own dictation pass, keeping the content focused.

A product spec that takes 45 minutes to type across all sections takes about 12 minutes to dictate. The text arrives as clean prose that fits Craft's professional aesthetic. After dictating all sections, spend time on Craft's strengths: formatting headers, adding toggle blocks for details, inserting links, and arranging the visual layout. You separate content creation from document design, and each step gets your full attention.

Collaborative Editing Sessions

Craft supports real-time collaboration. Multiple people can edit the same document simultaneously, seeing each other's cursors and changes live. AICHE works in this context because it inserts text at your specific cursor position without affecting what others are doing.

During collaborative sessions - brainstorming meetings, planning workshops, retrospectives - each participant can dictate into their assigned section. One person dictates the problem statement while another dictates proposed solutions. The document fills out in parallel. Since AICHE inserts text locally at each person's cursor, there are no paste conflicts or overwrite issues.

For teams that use Craft for meeting documents, the person running the meeting can dictate key points directly into the shared doc while others watch and add their own contributions. This is faster than one person typing while everyone waits, and it produces a shared document that's complete by the end of the meeting rather than circulated later.

Daily Journal and Reflection Entries

Craft's native apps on macOS and iOS make it a popular choice for personal journaling. The experience feels intentional - opening Craft to write feels different from opening a generic text editor. But that intentional feel can also create pressure to write something worthy of the beautiful interface. The blank page in Craft can feel more intimidating than in a basic notes app.

Voice dictation dissolves that pressure. Press the hotkey and start talking about your day, your thoughts, or your plans. There's no blank page to stare at because words are appearing as you speak. A daily journal entry that you might skip because typing 300 words feels like effort becomes something you complete in 90 seconds of speaking.

For evening reflections, this is especially practical. You're tired, your hands don't want to type, but you can talk through what happened, what you learned, and what tomorrow should look like. AICHE captures the reflection. Craft makes it look worth reading later.

Tips for Craft Users

Dictate first, format second. Craft's block-based editor lets you rearrange content after writing it, so don't worry about structure during dictation. Speak your thoughts in whatever order they come, then use Craft's drag-and-drop blocks to reorder sections. Enable Message Ready in AICHE settings for documents you plan to share. It cleans up spoken language into professional prose that matches Craft's visual quality.

For long documents, dictate one section per recording session. This gives you natural break points and keeps each dictation focused.

Heads-up: Craft's card-based layout works well with structured content. After dictating a long section, break it into separate cards or blocks manually. The transcribed text provides the content; you add Craft's visual structure afterward.

Pro tip: enable Message Ready in AICHE settings before dictating into Craft. Casual speech becomes polished prose that matches Craft's professional aesthetic, saving you editing time on shared documents.

Result: product requirement documents that take 45 minutes to type with complete details become 12 minutes of dictation, and Craft's visual polish makes them immediately shareable.

Do this now: open Craft, create a document, press your hotkey, and dictate one section of a document you've been putting off. Then format it with Craft's tools and see the result.