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Send someone a script, not a file
A Tellie script is plain text, so it can travel as a link. Paste one in below and you get a URL. Whoever opens it sees the script with its must-cover sections and key phrases intact, and can send it straight to Tellie in one click.
The script rides in the part of the link that browsers never send to a server. We do not store it, we cannot read it, and there is nothing to delete later.
Try a ready-made one
Short scripts that show what the marks do. Pick one, then click Send to Tellie and read it out loud.
This is what your recipient sees.
The Monday standup
What shipped
Only the things a customer can actually touch. If it is not in front of someone outside this room, it did not ship, it moved.
What is stuck
Name the thing and the person who can unblock it. If nobody in the room can, say that out loud too.
What I need from you
must coverSay any one of:what I needblocked on
This is the section everyone runs out of time for, so it is the one marked must-cover. Its anchor is two phrases separated by a comma: say either one, anywhere, and the section counts as covered. That is how you write an anchor for a point you might phrase either way.
Nothing happened? Then Tellie is not on this Mac yet. It is a free download, and this script will open straight into it once it is.
Every one of these is a page you can link to on its own. See them all, or make your own below.
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Paste a script. The link builds as you type, and nothing you paste here is sent anywhere.
What the marks mean
Three characters carry the whole convention, and a script that uses none of them still works fine. The scripting guide is the long version.
| You write | Tellie does |
|---|---|
## A section |
Makes it jumpable, and lets Tellie track whether you covered it. |
## ! A section |
Marks it must-cover. Tellie tells you afterwards if you skipped it. |
> key: the phrase |
Counts the section covered the moment you say that phrase, even if you said it somewhere else entirely. It listens to the whole take. |
> key: one, another |
Separate alternatives with commas. Saying any one of them is enough, which is how you write an anchor for a point you might phrase either way. |
That last one solves numbers, which are otherwise the one thing that trips an anchor up. Speech recognition decides for itself whether you said "forty" or "40", and the two do not match each other. So do not guess: list both, and whichever one comes back, the section is covered.
## ! The number that matters
> key: forty percent, 40 percentWhy a link and not a file
Because a file is a thing to manage and a link is not. Nobody has to find a
folder, nobody has to know what a .md is, and the person you sent
it to can read it on their phone on the way to the meeting and open it on their
Mac when they get there.
And it means a script is finally something you can put in a Slack message.