FOR ENGINEERING MANAGERS · WINDOWS AND MAC

1:1s, standups and retros, with the action items kept.

Team rituals produce decisions that live in someone’s head until Thursday. Vokalu writes each one up in the format it deserves: per-person updates for standup, both-ways feedback for a 1:1, owners on every retro action.

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WHAT YOU SAY

Priya finished the cache fix, today she’s on the billing alerts, and she’s blocked on access to the staging database.

IN THE STANDUP TEMPLATE

Priya Yesterday: finished the cache fix. Today: billing alerts. Blockers: needs access to the staging database.

Illustrative example, not a recorded customer result.

Note templates for this work

Pick a template when you start Notes, for a live meeting or an uploaded recording. Standup gives each person their own heading, with yesterday, today and blockers, then the blockers that need help.

1:1

Updates
Wins
Challenges
Feedback (both ways)
Growth
Action items (owner)

STANDUP

Each person: yesterday, today, blockers
Blockers needing help

RETRO

What went well
What didn’t
Ideas
Action items (owner)

Dictation for the rest of the day

Performance reviews and feedback

Talk through the review in Google Docs or Word, then tighten it with Command Mode.

Design docs and incident write-ups

Dictate the first draft in clean paragraphs, with system names spelled the way you added them to Vocabulary.

Instructions to coding agents

Claude Code, Codex and Aider in your terminal are recognized, and file names stay exact.

Questions worth asking

Does it work for in-person standups?

Yes. Notes records through your microphone, and tells speakers apart by voice.

Can I use it for code?

For instructions, comments and commit messages, yes. Vokalu keeps identifiers and file names exact, and recognizes coding agents in your terminal.