Ask HN: How do you take notes of interesting ideas while podcasting Does anyone frequently save information from podcasts or audiobooks? Curious about how you capture things you want to remember or reference later. |
Ask HN: How do you take notes of interesting ideas while podcasting Does anyone frequently save information from podcasts or audiobooks? Curious about how you capture things you want to remember or reference later. |
If I'm doing active listening, i.e. listening to a podcast or watching a talk and actively taking notes, then I use https://sidenote.me
For example: https://sidenote.me/note/0gcKho/nailing-your-first-launch-ad...
https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
They go under 80-89: Inspiration & Notes > 81. Other Thinkers' Ideas Mentioned in Podcasts & Articles
Title: {author or (podcast name & episode)} - {1 sentence description}
Content:
- blog post screenshot?
- bullet point summary of ideas and context building up to ideas?
- url link
E.g. these 2 examples https://imgur.com/a/w3De47J
Worst part abt this system though is that I often listen to podcasts while doing the dishes. Inevitably I rush to write an idea down but my hands are sopping wet.. :^)
task add +read "Book title. Mentioned in interview [link for the resource] by X with Y. Useful because [reasons].
task 180 annotate (triple quotes)(multi line thoughts)(triple quotes)(return)
This stuff served as the seed of our knowledge base where I work.
- [0]: https://taskwarrior.org/
I am doing some market research on folks that go above and beyond to take notes to document their learnings while podcasting. I would love to talk to you for 20 mins and ask you a few questions. As a thank you, i'd like to buy you a coffee (via paypal / venmo). Let me know if i can reach out to you.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100 (understanding codebases, etc.)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873103 (making the most out of meetings, leveraging your presence)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841 (product development)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356222 (giving a damn)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008223 (If I disappear, what will happen)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972611 (about consulting and clients, but you can abstract that as "stakeholders", and understanding the problem your "client", who can be your manager, has.)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209518 (on taking notes. When you're told something, or receive a remark, make sure to make a note and learn from it whether it's a mistake, or a colleague showing you something useful, or a task you must accomplish.. don't be told things twice or worse. Be on the ball and reliable).
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365 (product, architecture, and impact on the team)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860716 (onboarding new hires to a codebase, what if it were you, improve code)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710623 (being efficient learning from video, hacks. Subsequent reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723586)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598632 (communication with the team, and subsequent reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614372)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427886 (template for taking minutes of meetings to dispatch to the team. Notes are in GitHub/GitLab so the team can access them, especially if they haven't attended).
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24177646 (communication, alignment)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808439 (useful things for the team and product that add leverage)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323660 (more meeting notes. Reply to a person who had trouble talking in corporate meetings)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715971 (management involvement as a spectrum)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922120 (researching topics)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26147502 (keeping up with a firehose of information)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123017 (fractal communication: communication that can penetrate several layers of management and be relevant to people with different profiles and skillsets)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179539 (remote work, use existing tooling and build our own. Jitsi videos, record everything, give access to everyone so they can reference them and go back to them, meetings once a week or two weeks to align)
Some of them may be more relevant to you, such as the one "keeping up with a firehose of information", and the ones dealing with taking notes, alignment, communication, etc.
I don't really do "podcasts", but I use these strategies when I collect papers (or watch technical talks), cherry pick the relevant ones, read them, summarize them, and then send the notes to my colleagues.
If I can stop what I'm doing (if I'm on a walk), I will pause and take notes. With audiobooks, I can bookmark and take notes in Audible. I do wish I could see the transcription because I always worry Audible didn't capture the right portion of the audio so that when I go back to listen later it takes me a while to try to figure out what I bookmarked/clipped. Whereas in a physical book, I know exactly what I highlighted. Does that make sense?
I am doing some market research on how power users solve this problem and would love to talk to for 20 mins to get your advice on a few things. Happy to buy you a coffee (via paypal / venmo) in return!
A triple tap creates highlights at the current location. If the podcast has transcripts, even the surrounding text is saved. It integrates with readwise.io too, so you have export/reminder options there as well.
Unfortunately nothing like this for audiobooks yet.
- are there any open source software that couples transcript with the podcast?
- do transcripts get crated through NLP or some other tech automatically for English podcast?
It’s pretty good as it transcribe the audio and I usually capture interesting links to resources shared in the podcast to my pocket app.
Last but not least I have a README file on github as TIL where I put stuff I discover from podcasts or just in general
I am doing some market research on this problem and would love to talk to for 20 mins to get your advice on a few things. Based on your HN profile, it looks like you are a heavy podcast listener! It would be a great opportunity for me to learn from you.
Otherwise, I just end up pausing and writing down key ideas.
A lot of podcasts these days just add transcripts and leave it at that. Transcripts are better than nothing and probably good for the podcast producers for SEO or whatever but I don't find them all that useful. IMHO the show notes must have links for every broad topic, concept, person, book, project, conference talk mentioned.
The folks at Oxide Computer get this https://oxide.computer/podcast/
I am actually doing some market research around power listeners that like to refer to show notes in podcasts. I would love to talk to you for 20 mins and ask you a few questions to learn from you. Happy to buy you a coffee in return (via paypal / venmo) :)