Write show notes and clips
Turn an episode transcript into show notes, chapters and clip ideas.
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- Slack
- Box
- Dropbox
- Notion
- Microsoft 365
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Box
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Microsoft 365How do you write podcast show notes?
To write podcast show notes, tell Maito where transcripts land. For each new episode Maito reads the transcript, writes the summary and chapters with timestamps, picks clip ideas with start and end times, flags facts that conflict inside the episode, and posts the notes for your producer to edit.
How it's done today
Show notes are written in a rush.
What Maito does
- Read the transcript
- Write notes and chapters
- Pick 5 clip moments
Example
Loop run: New file in Drive: ep112-transcript.docx
Episode 112: The last print shop on Fifth Street Dev Raman explains why his shop still runs a 1962 press and how a $14,000 repair nearly closed it. Chapters • 00:00 Cold open • 03:12 Inheriting the shop • 11:48 The press that broke • 19:30 Why wedding invitations saved the year • 31:05 Hiring apprentices Clip ideas • 11:48 to 12:41, the repair call, strong opening line • 19:30 to 20:15, the wedding story Catch: at 24:10 Dev says the shop opened in 1987. At 03:12 he said 1984. I used neither in the notes. Sources: ep112-transcript.docx. Full notes with 8 chapters and 5 clips attached: ep112-notes.docx.
@Maito Producer here, it was 1984. Update the notes and cut the apprentices chapter.
Updated: 1984 is in the summary, and the apprentices chapter is gone. Attached: ep112-notes-v2.docx.
Maito (2:41 PM):
Episode 112: The last print shop on Fifth Street
Dev Raman explains why his shop still runs a 1962 press and how a $14,000 repair nearly closed it.
Chapters
• 00:00 Cold open
• 03:12 Inheriting the shop
• 11:48 The press that broke
• 19:30 Why wedding invitations saved the year
• 31:05 Hiring apprentices
Clip ideas
• 11:48 to 12:41, the repair call, strong opening line
• 19:30 to 20:15, the wedding story
Catch: at 24:10 Dev says the shop opened in 1987. At 03:12 he said 1984. I used neither in the notes. Sources: ep112-transcript.docx. Full notes with 8 chapters and 5 clips attached: ep112-notes.docx.
Carla (2:55 PM):
Producer here, it was 1984. Update the notes and cut the apprentices chapter.
Maito (2:56 PM):
Updated: 1984 is in the summary, and the apprentices chapter is gone. Attached: ep112-notes-v2.docx.
How to set it up
- Ask your agent
“When a new episode transcript lands in the Transcripts folder in Google Drive, write show notes, chapters and 5 clip ideas and post them in #podcast.”
- Connect files
- Google Drive
- Box
- Dropbox
- Notion
- Microsoft 365
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What it won't do
It works from the transcript, so transcription errors carry over. It doesn't edit audio or publish the episode.
Questions
It watches the folder in your file tool, such as Google Drive, and runs when a transcript is added.
No. It picks the moments and timestamps, and your team cuts them.
It leaves the disputed fact out of the notes and asks your producer to confirm.
