Introduction
Learn how to get the most out of Dial8 — your AI-powered second brain for macOS.
Welcome to the Dial8 documentation. Dial8 is a native macOS app that combines voice-powered productivity, AI assistance, and personal knowledge management .
What is Dial8?
Dial8 is your AI-powered second brain. It captures your voice, understands your context, and helps you stay on top of everything — meetings, tasks, goals, and more. The AI assistant learns your preferences over time to become a truly personalized collaborator.
Key Features
- Speech to Text — Convert voice to text in any app using on-device Whisper models
- Text to Speech — Have any selected text read aloud with neural voices at up to 4x speed
- AI Assistant — Chat with Claude, use voice commands, and get proactive suggestions
- AI Agents — Autonomous AI workers that execute tasks on your behalf
- Voice Notes & Meetings — Record meetings with dual-stream audio, get AI-generated summaries and action items
- Dashboard — Your daily command center with tasks, goals, insights, and AI briefings
- Goals & Milestones — Hierarchical goal tracking with progress visualization
- Projects — Organize notes, meetings, and knowledge by project
- Workflows — Automated AI tasks on schedules or on-demand
- CRM / Contacts — Full contact management with Apple Contacts sync
- Canvas — Create architecture diagrams with cloud provider icons
- Built-in Browser — Browse the web with full bookmark management
- MCP Servers — Extend AI capabilities with Model Context Protocol integrations
- Universal Search — Find anything across all your data with AI-powered semantic search
Quick Start
- Download Dial8 and drag it to your Applications folder
- Follow the onboarding wizard to set up permissions and download models
- Press Option to start dictating, Control to read text aloud, or Fn to talk to the AI
Ready to dive deeper? Start with the Installation guide, or jump to any feature section in the sidebar.