Alright, I am not going to hide it from you anymore: If you are anything like me, you listen to an insane amount of podcasts. Lately, podcasts have become my main way of staying informed about things I am interested in.
Literally following trends as they come and go. I find myself listening to podcasts about World of Warcraft every now and then, followed by a few episodes on finance, and a lot of other random stuff, pretty much exactly like this page here. But I have always had one major problem with podcasts.

Doing Stuff and Taking Notes

For me, it is never a primary activity. I always listen to podcasts in the background. But what is the point of hearing something if you cannot write it down because you are driving, for example? I am the kind of person who needs to write everything down, otherwise I just forget it. That is why I try to keep everything in Obsidian and constantly optimize my workflow there.

A little over a year ago, I stumbled upon SNIPD*. It is a podcast player that creates and saves highlights of what you are listening to, either automatically or with the push of a button. Why am I only mentioning this now? Well, because until recently, my workflow was honestly too expensive to explain or recommend to you.

Workflows change

I had to connect Snipd with Readwise – which is 13€ a month – just to sync it with Obsidian. It was pretty ridiculous because I do not even use Readwise for anything other than that synchronization anymore. Now I have discovered that SNIPD has developed its own way to sync „snips“ directly with Obsidian. I will not even get into the fact that it actually works better and offers better formatting than Readwise. So, whenever I am listening to a podcast and something important is mentioned, I just double-tap my AirPods or hit the Snip button on CarPlay, and a highlight is created and synced with Obsidian. From there, it just exists within my workflow (maybe I should write about that too?).

I use a tag called #revisit for things I want to remember and look at again. This hashtag collects everything marked that way on a single page so I can review it later. Of course, a collection of information is only useful if you actually organize and use it, but I am constantly working on that. With Snipd’s own integration, the whole process in Obsidian has become cheaper and easier.

If you have ever dealt with the frustration of listening to a four-hour podcast but not really retaining enough to actually use that new knowledge, you should check out SNIPD*. You do not even need a massive workflow with a Second Brain or some PKM method. You can just let the snips live in the app and look them up there. Since I am a paying customer – yes, the service costs money, but it is worth every cent to me – and a true believer in the product, I can offer you a free month.* I do not get anything out of it directly, but maybe the people at SNIPD will notice me and realize how much I appreciate what they are doing. In the meantime, you can just test it out for a month for free. Have fun.

*Disclaimer:
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