Who this is for
Dream-journalers, lucid-dreaming practitioners, and writers who mine dreams for material, who need to capture them before they fade.
The moment this saves you
I wake up with a vivid dream right there, reach for my phone to type it, and watch it dissolve before my thumbs even find the keys. By breakfast there's nothing left but a mood.
See it work
Messy spoken thought in. A clean, structured artifact out.
Okay dream, fast before I lose it. I was in my old high school but it was also somehow an airport, and I kept trying to find a classroom but the hallways kept changing. There was a dog that could talk, it was very calm about everything, kept telling me not to worry about the exam. The feeling was this low anxiety the whole time, like I was late for something important. Oh and at the end I was suddenly on a boat. It's fading already.
Dream, June 5, 2026
I was in my old high school, but it was also somehow an airport. I kept trying to find a classroom while the hallways kept rearranging themselves.
There was a calm, talking dog that kept telling me not to worry about the exam.
At the very end I was suddenly on a boat.
Feeling throughout: a low anxiety, like being late for something important.
The workflow
Record a voice note
Hit the hotkey and talk, no formatting, no typing.
Tag it with this context
Contextli shapes your words into the structured output above.
Find it later
Everything's searchable and organised by context.
Pull it into Claude or ChatGPT
Bring your contexts straight into your AI tools with the Contextli MCP.
Your raw recording and transcription stay on your device, so you can always go back to the original.
The prompt behind this context
I'm going to recount a dream I just woke from, probably disjointed and fading. Turn it into a dated dream-journal entry: a bold "Dream, [today's date]" heading, then the dream as a few short first-person paragraphs in the order I recalled it, preserving the surreal logic and specific images exactly as I describe them (don't make it make sense). End with an italic "Feeling throughout:" line if I named an emotion. Do NOT interpret or analyze the dream, and don't invent details I didn't mention. Output only the entry.
Make it your own. This is a starting point. Once it's in Contextli, tweak the instructions so the output comes out exactly how you like it.
Use this context
One tap adds it to your clipboard. Open Contextli and paste to add it.
Next, open Contextli, Contexts, Import, paste.
Make it your own. This is a starting point. Once it's in Contextli, tweak the instructions so the output comes out exactly how you like it.
Your raw recording and transcription stay on your device, so you can always go back to the original.
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The whole point of morning pages is to empty your head, but a blank notebook at 7am just adds friction. Talk the fog out loud instead, half-awake and unfiltered, and get a flowing page you can actually reread later.
Daily Journal
It's 11pm and a blank page feels like a chore, so you skip it again. Instead, just talk the way you'd process the day in your head. You'll wake up to a warm, honest entry in your own voice, not a transcript.
Mood Check-In
You can feel your mood sliding but you never log it, so you can't see the pattern. Just say how you're doing right now and what's behind it. You get a dated entry with an intensity you can actually look back on.