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Field notes on podcast transcripts.
Practical guides on bulk-exporting transcripts, getting around Apple Podcasts' copy limits, and feeding podcast back-catalogs into Claude, ChatGPT, and NotebookLM.
Playbook·
How to bulk-transcribe a 400-episode podcast back catalog
A practical playbook for transcribing a long-running podcast's entire back catalog — what to expect for time, cost, accuracy, and how to feed the result into Claude or NotebookLM without choking the context window.
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Workaround·
Apple Podcasts only lets you copy 200 words at a time — here's the workaround
Apple's built-in podcast transcript view caps copy at ~200 words per selection and is iPhone-only. Here's why the limit exists, what a 90-minute episode actually requires, and how to bulk-export instead.
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Guide·
How to copy Apple Podcasts transcripts in 2026 (and why the Sonoma trick doesn't scale)
The macOS Sonoma Shortcut for extracting Apple Podcasts transcripts is broken in macOS 14.4+. Here's what still works in 2026 — and what to use when you want more than one episode at a time.
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