Deixis, documented
These pages are the product's own documentation, rendered as it is written rather than rewritten for the website. That is deliberate: a documentation page that drifts from the software is worse than no page at all, so each one is cut straight out of the file the developers maintain, and the site refuses to build if a section it needs has been renamed or removed. If a page here says Deixis does something, that is because the documentation says so.
Docs
One page per tool
Custom buttons and chains
Add your own action to the palette: run a program with the finished note and type back what it prints, or chain steps together without writing a script.
Settings, and where cleanup runs
Every setting Deixis reads and what it defaults to, plus the three places the cleanup pass can run: your own machine, your own key, or Deixis.
The dictionary, and getting your words right
How to stop Deixis mishearing you: vocabulary terms, find-and-replace fixes, filler words, the five packs, and the 36-term cap that decides which to use.
Free and Pro
Everything that runs on your machine is free with no account. The cloud extras are free with your own provider key; paying removes the setup.
The one gesture
Hold Ctrl+Win (Ctrl+Option on a Mac) and speak, and the text lands at your caret. Plus every mode on the palette behind it, each on its own letter.
Local connections
How a program on the same machine asks Deixis for a dictation, a question, a palette key or an element pick — and what you have to allow first.
Meeting mode
Deixis records your microphone and the system audio and transcribes both on this machine. No bot joins the call, and the transcript is a file in a folder.
Where Deixis runs
Which parts of Deixis run on each of the four platforms, what state each build is in, and what is still being finished for meetings.
Screen capture
Freeze the screen, drag a region, and annotate it with arrows, boxes, text, redaction and numbered steps. Every save stays re-editable afterwards.
Sharing a link
Upload a screenshot, note or screen recording and hand somebody a URL. Choose who the link is for, how long it lives, and revoke it whenever you want.
Teams and seats
Create a team, invite people by email, and share links only its members can open. Plus how seats work when the team holds the subscription.
Integrations and webhooks
Send every finished note, grab or translation to a URL you own as signed JSON. The payload, the three auth modes, and how to verify an HMAC delivery.
Where things land
Every folder Deixis writes to and what is in it: settings, dictionary, notes, screenshots, recordings, meetings, history and the speech models.
What you get
More than dictation. One key, and everything behind it.
Hold the key and press a letter: free mode, a grab, a meeting, a recording, a translation, your own buttons. All of it on your own device, all of it free, none of it behind an account.
Dictation, where your cursor is
Hold a key, speak, release. Clean, punctuated text lands in whatever has focus, on your PC, your Mac and your phone, with your clipboard handed back.
Free mode: talk and point
Narrate for as long as you like while you grab a region, pick a button on screen or take a selection. One note, what you said interleaved with what you pointed at, pasted where you finish and saved as Markdown.
Screen grabs, annotated
Freeze every screen at the keypress, drag a region, add arrows, boxes, text and numbered steps, and pixelate what is private. Saved as a PNG that stays editable.
Screen recording, shared as a link
Record the screen with your narration. The recording writes itself up with a title, chapters and a summary, and from your Deixis account it shares as a link anyone can open without one. The Loom you can stop paying for.
Meetings, no bot, names included
Your microphone and the other side, transcribed on your machine while the call runs. Deixis tells the voices apart and remembers the ones you name, and never uploads a voice.
Your own buttons and workflows
Add a button to the palette: it gets the note on stdin and types back whatever it prints. Send finished notes to any URL you own. Chain steps: read the text off a screenshot, translate it, summarise it, post it.
Hold a key. Speak. Keep working.
Deixis is free, needs no account, and runs on your own device.
v1.2.2 · 64‑bit Windows 10/11 · macOS 13 on Apple silicon · 51 MB · nothing else to install · also for Windows