Pick a context automatically based on the app you are in

Turn on Auto-activate context in a supported context’s Advanced settings. After that, when you record with your main hotkey while a matching app is in focus (for example Gmail or Slack), Contextli uses that context automatically.

Turn on auto-activate

1. Click Contexts in the sidebar.
2. Click the context you want, for example Email. If it is off, clicking it turns it on and opens the editor.
3. Open Advanced settings.
4. Switch on Auto-activate context (“Pick this context when a related app is in focus”).
5. Click Save changes.

Use it

1. Click into the app you want to write in, for example a Gmail reply.
2. Press your main recording hotkey (Option+Space on Mac, Ctrl+Space on Windows and Linux by default).
3. Speak. Contextli detects the app and formats your words with the matching context.

Auto-activate only works with the main hotkey. A context’s own hotkey always uses that context.

Which contexts and apps are supported

Auto-activate is available on these built-in contexts. Custom contexts do not have the option.

Browser tabs are detected on Chrome, Safari, Arc, Edge and Brave.

Troubleshooting

• It used the plain transcript instead: check that the context itself is turned on and that Auto-activate context is switched on in its Advanced settings.
• The wrong app was detected: click inside the window you want to write in before pressing the hotkey, so it is the app in focus.
• I don’t see the toggle: the context you opened does not support auto-activate. Use its own hotkey instead.

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