Use the same skeleton every week so publishing does not become a design project. Here is the template PodCrate fills in. Copy it, or run an episode and download the markdown.
The template
- Title
- Two to four sentence summary
- Chapters, each with a timestamp and one sentence
- Takeaways, as a short list
- Mentioned: people, tools, and gear
Filled example
Title: Recording a podcast in the same room as a drum kit.
Summary: A new microphone did not fix a spare bedroom in Phoenix. Two moving blankets, a close dynamic mic, and a quieter gain knob did. The host marks clip-worthy lines out loud so the publish step does not wait until Sunday.
- 0:00 Three feet from a drum kit
- 0:58 A nicer mic hears more of the room
- 1:52 The forty-dollar blanket fix
- 2:26 Deaf is a feature
- 6:42 One crate, then you are done
The full sample crate, including titles and clip captions, is on the sample page. Read it the way you would read your own before you hit publish.