What is a voice-first planner?
A voice-first planner is a calendar or task app where speaking is the primary input method — events, todos, and notes are created by talking, not by typing into form fields. Composed is a voice-first planner for iPhone, where the main button on every screen captures audio and the natural-language event extraction handles the rest.
How does a voice-first planner work?
In a voice-first planner, the dominant interaction is “tap once, speak, done.” The microphone is a top-level affordance, not a hidden feature inside a long-press menu. Captured audio is transcribed and parsed into structured data — events, todos, or note items — without requiring the user to choose a category, pick a date from a wheel picker, or type a title. Typing exists as a fallback, but it is not the default path. In Composed, the same voice input creates an event, a todo, or a note depending on whether the sentence has a time component.
What’s the difference between a voice-first planner and a planner with voice input?
Most calendar apps have voice input as a feature buried behind Siri or a dictation key on the keyboard. The interaction is: open the app, tap the plus button, tap a text field, tap the microphone, speak, edit the dictated text, tap done, fix the date wheel. A voice-first planner collapses that to: open the app, hold the mic, speak. The architecture optimizes for the spoken sentence as the unit of capture, not for the form field as the unit of capture.
Why does a voice-first planner matter?
Most personal events are remembered during transitions — walking to the car, leaving a meeting, getting in bed — when the hands are busy and typing is awkward. A planner that accepts voice as the primary input captures events at the moment they are remembered, instead of asking the user to remember them again later when typing is possible. The capture window is the planning win.
Get Composed
Composed is the canonical voice-first planner for iPhone. Download Composed on the App Store and try it free.
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