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My perfect podcast app would be a long phone call in which I listen to the show and can also talk back to remember things. (Someone build this for me.) It would immeasurably improve my running. Long story short, I added slow runs into the training mix, and had to switch from high tempo music to podcasts because I kept going too fast. BUT genuinely interesting podcasts are a problem because I keep wanting to stop running to take notes. So I end up listening to shows that only scrape past the threshold of keeping my interest, nothing more mind-fizzy. My Goldilocks zone podcast genre is premium mediocre. Sad. Designer Kate Pincott suggested (when we were out at a designers dinner last week) that I need a minimal Granola-like interface. A way to take notes simply by marking a moment. Like: perhaps I would double-tap my watch, and it would timestamp the moment in the podcast episode to capture it, then later it could pull out a few relevant sentences and drop it into my notes. Like…

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