You just came off a call and the item's Updates feed is staring back at you, empty. With Clavio you don't type the recap — you say it. Click into the update box, speak what happened — “Client signed off on the new homepage, we're waiting on final copy, aiming to ship Thursday” — and a natural, lightly polished version lands in the field, reading like you wrote it out. The same voice fills your long-text columns and status notes, and because auto-send stays off for board fields, Clavio drops the words in and waits while you read it back and hit Post. A verbal status becomes a written update in seconds — and the same voice carries on into your docs, your Slack, your email.
Start with a wake word or hotkey — right in the update box
monday.com lives in your browser, so there's no app name to speak to — you give Clavio a wake word or a hotkey and use whichever feels natural. Click into an item's update box, a long-text column, or a status note, say your wake word (nothing to hold down) or tap your key once, and start talking. The text lands where your cursor already is. There's no separate window to open and nothing to press while you speak — you say the update out loud and watch it fill, then move to the next item with a click and keep going. A whole board's worth of updates, dictated one item at a time, without reaching for the keyboard.
A natural tone — a status update, not a formal report
An update on an item is a quick note to your team, not a legal document, so it shouldn't come out stiff. Keep Clavio on a natural, light polish for monday.com: it clears the “um,” the false starts, and the tangents, and tidies the sentence, but it keeps your own voice and phrasing — so the update reads like you dashed it off cleanly, not like something rewrote you. You talk the recap through loosely and a clean, readable note is what lands in the feed. Add the names your boards live in — your board and group titles, column names, teammates, the client and project names — to Clavio's dictionary, and “Acme relaunch,” “QA column,” and a colleague's name come through spelled right every time.
Turn a verbal status into a written update in seconds
What makes dictating into monday.com feel different is the running Updates feed on every item — the place a status actually lives. You just finished the task or the call, so instead of typing a recap while it's fresh, you speak it straight into the item's Updates and a clean note is ready to post for the whole team to read. It works the same for a long-text column or a status note. For a multi-point update, say “new line” between points so it lands as a readable list rather than one run-on. Because you're populating board fields rather than firing off a message, you keep Clavio's auto-send off: it types your words into whichever field holds the cursor and stops there, so a stray pause never posts a half-finished update or trips a board shortcut. You fill the field by talking, read it once, and hit Post when it's ready.
One voice for the whole board — updates, docs, Slack
The update is only the start of the thread. When a teammate @-mentions you on the item, dictate the reply straight back; when you write the spec, speak it into a monday doc; when someone pings you about the board, switch to Slack and answer in a casual tone; when the client needs a summary, talk the recap email out. Clavio remembers the tone per app, so the same wake word carries you from a natural board update to a tidier doc to a quick chat reply — and because it only answers to your voice, someone talking nearby never sets it off. One voice runs the whole board: you post it, reply to it, and talk it through end to end.
Recommended Clavio settings for monday.com
| Setting | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Activation | Wake word or hotkey | monday.com has no name to talk to, so trigger with a wake word or a single key — cursor in the update box, then just speak. |
| Polish level | Natural (light polish) | An update is a quick team note, not a formal report — a natural polish clears filler and tidies the sentence while keeping your own voice and phrasing. |
| Auto-send | Off | You're filling board fields, not sending a message. Clavio drops the words in and waits, so a stray pause never posts a half-finished update or trips a board shortcut. |
| Personal dictionary | Add boards, columns, people | Keeps board names, column names, and teammates — Acme relaunch, QA column, a colleague's name — coming through right instead of guessed at. |
| Spoken line breaks | Say “new line” | A multi-point update or a long-text column reads better as a list — say “new line” between points and each drops onto its own row. |
Post your monday.com updates by voice with Clavio
Clavio is an AI dictation app for Mac. It sits in your menu bar and types finished text wherever your cursor is — an item's Updates box, a long-text column, a status note, a monday doc, Slack, email. For monday.com you set a natural, light polish so every update reads like a clean note in your own voice, and keep auto-send off so nothing posts until you click Post. A personal dictionary keeps your board and column names intact, and an on-device voiceprint means only your voice sets it off. Free to try: 3,000 words a month, no card, macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon. Pro is £12/month for unlimited.
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Common questions
Does monday.com have its own voice input?
monday.com has no built-in voice typing. Your Mac has a dictation feature you can switch on, but it drops raw words into the box with no cleanup and no sense that it's a team update. Clavio adds a natural, light polish so the update reads like a clean note in your own voice, keeps your board and column names straight, and leaves the Post button to you — so what lands in the feed is ready to read, not raw.
Can I write a whole update hands-free?
Yes — the dictating is hands-free. Click into the update box, say your wake word (nothing to hold down), and speak the recap; the words land where your cursor already is. Auto-send stays off, so Clavio fills the field and waits — you read it back and click Post yourself, without reaching for the keyboard to type a word.
Will it reword my update or mangle board and column names?
A natural polish tidies filler and smooths the sentence without changing what you meant or stripping out your voice. To keep names exact, add your boards, columns, and teammates to Clavio's dictionary — then “Acme relaunch,” “QA column,” and a colleague's name come through spelled right instead of guessed at.
Can I turn a quick verbal status into a written update?
That's exactly what dictating into monday.com is for. You just came off the task or the call, so instead of typing a recap while it's fresh, you speak it straight into the item's Updates feed — or a long-text column, or a status note — and a clean, readable update lands there in seconds. Say “new line” between points and a multi-part update drops in as a list.
Can I use the same voice across the whole board?
Yes — that's the reason to use a system-wide app instead of one box. Clavio types into an item's Updates, your long-text columns, and status notes, then your monday docs, Slack, and email the same way, and remembers the tone per app: natural for a board update, casual for chat. One wake word carries the whole board loop.