Notes on recordings, and the documents they become.
Practical writing on transcription, dictation and document workflows — no growth-hack listicles, no invented statistics.
Field notes
For doctors
Dictating reports, consultation notes and referral letters, and checking them before you sign.
For therapists
Progress notes in SOAP and DAP, and the other documents of a course of therapy.
For vets
The clinical record of a consult, and the documents that follow it.
For lawyers
Writing down what was said and advised at a client meeting.
For researchers
From the interview recording to themes and the quotes behind them.
For podcasters
Show notes, articles and posts written from each episode.
- How to Write Podcast Show Notes, With an ExampleWhat podcast show notes hold, a template and an example, chapters that YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts read, and the posts that promote an episode.
- How to Turn a Podcast Episode Into a Blog PostA blog post written from an episode, not its transcript pasted: one idea, an outline from its chapters, quotes kept exact, and a worked example.
On transcription
How speech becomes text, and the tools that do it.
- How to Transcribe Audio: Four Ways to Get the TextFour ways to turn a recording into text, from typing it yourself to a transcription program: what each asks of you, and how to check the result.
- What Is OpenAI Whisper and How Does It Work?OpenAI’s Whisper speech recognition model in plain language: what it was trained on, how it works, how accurate it is, where it goes wrong, how to run it.
- Audio Transcription Software Compared (2026)Thirteen transcription tools in one table, each fact from the tool's own pages: ways in, languages, documents, human transcription and how it charges.