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I'd like to talk about the format that James uses for his book summary. What do others here think about this format? It's simple and to the point.

As I think through some recent books that I've listened to as audiobooks, I'd really like to generate a summary like this for each one of them so that I can help the material settle into my brain a bit better. The challenge is usually the places where I'm listening (driving, running, riding) and capturing notes in those places can be hard. I've recently experimented with using Apple Watch Reminders to take notes - have others tried this as well?

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I tend to use the phone to keep plain text notes that I upload. I'll listen for a chunk, pause, and type out a few bullet points. It doesn't tend to be based on time, but when I feel like I've hit a point where I have something to summarize. The clumsy touchscreen keyboard is almost a help as it forces me to be more concise than I would need to be on a keyboard.

Admittedly, this wouldn't work as well when driving (I generally do it while exercising or lounging). The goal is to take these plain text notes and add them to my TiddlyWiki, where I have entries for each book.

Completely get that. I always had the same issue with podcasts, which is why I built Snipd together with some friends. If you have the mp3 of the audiobook you can create your own private rss feed with services like SimpleCast and add that to our player. For private feeds we don't yet have our AI features activated, but you can still highlight your favorite moments, add your notes and sync them to Readwise.

Thanks for creating Snipd! I like the Obsidian integration and the triple-tap on AirPods Pro feature to capture a snippet. I'll definitely check it out.

While I would imagine this is challenging - what about Audible support? I might just solve this problem with money for the time being (buying Kindle + Audible for the books that I really do care about). But I still want the ability to "highlight" a book while listening to it via Audible and my hack (Siri + Reminders on Watch) doesn't really let me easily do this. Any thoughts here?

We do have this in the back of our minds as a possible way to branch out in the future. But for now, we want to first focus all our energy on creating the best experience for podcasts. I'll add your vote to this feature request ;) I think it would go nicely together, but as you also already mentioned, there are a couple of challenges like how to integrate into an app like Audible.

Is Snipd able to do audio transcription for private feeds? Private “podcasts” are my main way I listen to audio books. I tried Snipd last year and it seemed to struggle with private feeds at the time. I was sad, since it’s exactly what I’m looking for (especially if it ever gets Apple Watch support).

We do not yet have AI features for private feeds. But we do have it on the roadmap. Depending on when you tested it last year, you were probably not even able to add your private feeds. In the meantime, you can add your private feeds and listen to them, just like any other podcast app. You can also create highlights, but without the transcript or any other AI features. I've added your vote to this feature request to increase its priority.

There are a few good apps like Airr and Snipd for podcasts which integrate well with Readwise. KOreader on my kindle now also connects with Readwise. Still on the search for something that can transcribe from audiobooks though.

My current method is to bookmark any interesting parts in Prologue, my audiobook app of choice. And then find the relevant part on the epub version on KOreader-> highlight it -> sync with Readwise -> Obsidian

Long winded but works.

Thanks for the tool recommendations! While much of the content that I consume via audio is from podcasts, quite a bit is also from Audible (and arguably the more valuable as I don't read that much fiction on Audible). Is there a workflow that you'd recommend for Audible (I would imagine that involves stripping DRM and hosting the audio somewhere that I control?)

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