Symon
01 — LISTEN

Symon

Hold. Speak. Done.

(hold)
fn
For pinned dictation, use fn + space.
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02 — DICTATION

Hold to speak.

Symon stays quiet until you ask. Hold fn, say what you mean, release, and the line lands in the app you were already using. For longer pinned dictation, use fn + space. You can say new line, new paragraph, or scratch that without breaking flow.

03 — READBACK

Highlight, and it reads.

Need a paragraph back in your ear? Select the sentence and ask Symon, or trigger screen reading when you want the visible page read back. No export. No extra app. Just the current thought, lifted gently out of the page.

Symon lives best inside the work itself: a sentence drafted in Notes, a reply in Mail, a commit message in Terminal. Highlight one line and it comes back as calm speech, with the rest of the page left alone.

Highlight one line and it comes back as calm speech.
04 — ROUTING

Real-time first. Heavier only when needed.

Apple Speech handles the live pass. Symon can hand the sentence to a stronger cleanup pass when you enable it, and screen reading can pull in a vision layer when you ask for it. The bias stays the same: keep the first response fast, and only reach for more when the sentence deserves it.

A quiet spectrum, not a spec sheet.
05 — SURFACES

More than the pill.

The floating pill is the entry point. Underneath it, Symon already has longer writing, readback, memory, visible history, and post-dictation setup surfaces that stay close to the work.

Desktop cue: use the arrows or scroll over the section to move sideways through the stack.

(voice)

Instant capture, or a longer lane when you need it.

Symon can stay feather-light for quick thoughts, then stretch into a pinned writing lane without turning into a separate drafting app.

  • Hold fn for instant dictation into the app you were already using
  • Use fn + space when the sentence needs a more deliberate panel
  • Voice commands like “scratch that,” “new line,” and “new paragraph”
  • Optional AI polish before paste
(readback)

Text can come back toward you, too.

Symon is not only a way to send words out. It can also pull selected text or the visible page back into your ear when reading is the faster interface.

  • Speak selected text without leaving the page
  • Read the visible screen with pause, skip, and speed controls
  • Uses the same ambient surface instead of opening a separate player
(memory)

Useful residue stays close.

Polished dictation does not have to vanish after paste. Symon can keep what mattered, what is open, and where you should pick back up.

  • Memories and extracted action items
  • Session brief, Morning Brief, and Resume Brief
  • Review, lock, and complete what matters later
(history)

History should stay legible, not invisible.

When Symon uses extra processing, it does not have to become invisible infrastructure. The app keeps a visible record of what happened and what it cost.

  • Copyable transcript history with processing, latency, and token detail
  • Words, WPM, streaks, top apps, and time saved
  • A local record of how the workflow is actually being used
(workflow)

Automation and setup live in the same system.

The hot path stays lean, but the surrounding surfaces are still part of the product. Symon’s control panel carries setup, previews, automation, and appearance in one place.

  • Trigger on dictation, memory, action-item, or reading events
  • Send to webhooks, daily notes, inbox files, or Reminders
  • Preview lab for listening, polishing, reading, panels, and briefs
  • Permission repair, AI setup, and advanced controls in one place
06 — PRIVACY
(privacy) Your history stays local. Cloud help is explicit.
Symon keeps transcript history, memory, stats, and automation state on your machine. AI polish, ambient briefs, and screen-reading layers are configurable and only run when you choose to enable them. Privacy is not a decorative section here. It is part of the product contract.