Writing Show Notes People Read

Host at the studio microphone with her notes

Show notes are not a transcript. They are the reason somebody presses play three weeks later.

Ours used to run to eight hundred words and nobody opened them. Now they run to about a hundred and twenty, and they are the second most-visited page on the site.

The format is simple: one sentence on who the guest is, three timestamps worth jumping to, and every link mentioned on tape.

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Archibald Northbottom

Host of the show and the voice you hear every Tuesday morning. Fifteen years behind a microphone, still convinced the best interview question is the one you did not plan.

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