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.