Snippets
Say a short trigger and Cluinn pastes a longer saved block, exactly as you wrote it, never reworded or translated.
What snippets do
Snippets turn a short spoken trigger into a longer piece of text: a signature, an address, a reply you send often, a support link you paste all day. You say “sig” and Cluinn types the whole thing.
Click Personalize in the sidebar, then Snippets under Dictation in the panel that opens beside it.
Create a snippet
- Click New Snippet.
- Set a Trigger: a short word or phrase, such as
sig. - Set a Replacement: the full text to paste instead, up to 10,000 characters.
- Click Save.
Each trigger can belong to only one snippet, whatever the capitalization; reusing one is refused.
The sheet doesn’t save as you type, for a new snippet or an existing one. Closing it with unsaved changes asks first: Save, Keep editing or Close without saving.
How they fire
Say the trigger while you dictate. When Cluinn transcribes the recording, it swaps the trigger for your replacement before typing the result at your cursor.
- Matching is by whole word and ignores capitals: “sig”, “Sig” and “SIG” all fire, but “signature” doesn’t.
- A trigger can be more than one word; Cluinn matches the whole phrase.
Pasted verbatim
The replacement goes in exactly as you saved it, line breaks and formatting included. Even when a persona, a translation or the Dictionary reshapes the rest of your text, the snippet is protected during the AI clean-up and put back as saved. It’s never reworded and never translated.
Snippets vs. Dictionary
They solve different problems:
- Snippets expand a short trigger into a longer block of text.
- The Dictionary fixes mishearings of words you already say (names, jargon), so they’re spelled the way you want.
Use snippets for text you’d rather not repeat, and the Dictionary for words Cluinn keeps getting wrong.