From download to your first drafted reply, dictated paragraph, and answered screen. The whole setup is one permission and one key.
Cue has one setup step that matters: granting Accessibility, which is how it reads the field you are in and types the answer back. Everything after that is muscle memory. Here is the fastest path to feeling it.
Minute one: the grant
Open the app, follow the prompt to System Settings, and switch Cue on under Accessibility. You do this once. Cue signs its builds with a stable identity precisely so this grant survives updates.
Minutes two to five: the tap
Open a real email that needs a reply. Click into the reply field. Tap the right ⌘ key and watch the review card appear with a draft. Read it. If it is right, insert and send. If it is close, tweak a word first; Cue learns from the edits you make.
- Always trigger from inside the field you want the text in
- The first drafts are generic; they sharpen as you keep replies
- Nothing inserts without your review, and nothing ever auto-sends
Minutes six to eight: hold and talk
Now hold the right ⌘ and say something messy on purpose: “um, tell them the report is, no wait, Wednesday.” Release. Clean text lands in the field with the correction resolved. This is the gesture that replaces typing for anything longer than a sentence.
Minutes nine and ten: ask the screen
Find a long thread you have been avoiding. Summon the orb and ask for the short version, then ask it to draft the reply. That round trip, from lost to replied without leaving the window, is the habit that sticks.