Dialectic is an incredibly versatile tool that unites your Mac, data, and phones — mobile, landline, & VoIP — enabling you to be more productive. The chief purpose of Dialectic is to dial phone numbers. In today’s world, dialing the phone is not nearly as simple as it used to be. While Dialectic can make this much easier, to do so, you need to tell Dialectic about what type of phones or services you want to dial, how numbers should be formatted for your particular location, phones, & services, and some other information about your system to maximize its utility. So if you’re just getting started with Dialectic and are anxious to make your first call, even if you’re someone who doesn’t like to read manuals you should stop and read this section.
To use Dialectic, you need to know about:
- Locations & Dialing Rules. A Location is a complete set of rules governing how Dialectic will handle a call including determining the call type, the Dial Method to use, and the format of the phone number including any necessary country or area codes and other prefixes or suffixes. A Location makes it easy to switch all of these complex rules at once.
- Dial Methods. These are the various “ports” to which Dialectic can direct its dialing activity: your computer’s speakers, the modem, your Bluetooth phone, VoIP services, and so on.
If you are having problems with Dialectic and believe it is due to a bug in the application, you can use the “Report a Bug...” menu item in the main Dialectic menu to send a bug report — unless, of course, the bug prevents you from accessing the Dialectic menu at all!
