Well, that was easy!

Last episode I recorded a voice memo on my walk home, dropped the file into Claude Code on my laptop, and said "publish this episode." It normalized the audio, made a transcript, wrote the show notes, uploaded it to Transistor, and published it. Easiest podcast publishing I've ever done.

So now I want to know if I can do the whole thing without the laptop. Just the phone. This one is attempt two: recorded in the Dolby On app, which normalizes right on the iPhone, then handed off to Claude on my phone.

[00:00] One command on my laptop did the entire publishing workflow

[00:53] Attempt two: can I do all of this from my phone?

[01:56] Why Caleb records several episodes back to back. Once you take away the friction, you can feel the inspiration happen. You have a thought, you get it out, you move on. An hour later you have another one.

[02:33] Steven Robles has some magical iPhone shortcut that does a lot of this. I want to try it.

[03:10] Auphonic stripped out the trucks and airplanes behind me, which is impressive because it was loud. What it couldn't strip out is me wheezing up a steep hill in wildfire smoke. Next time I'm recording in the car.

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Speaker 1: 00:00

Alright. Well, that was easy. I just finished getting home after recording my voice into the Voice Memos app. I basically just threw the file into Claude code on my laptop and said, publish this episode, and it did everything. It normalized the audio.

Speaker 1: 00:22

It generated a transcript, generated show notes, uploaded it to Transistor, published the episode. It was by far the most seamless podcast publishing experience I've ever had. And now I think I wanna try doing the whole thing just from my phone. So I just downloaded this Dolby app. I think it's called Dolby On, and it says it will actually normalize the audio right on my iPhone.

Speaker 1: 00:53

And so my hope is that I can now just throw this file into Claude on my phone, just the mobile app on my phone, and have it do the whole thing just from my phone. So literally just finished recording in this Dolby app and click stop. I'm hoping the Dolby app is really fast, and I can just save this to my files, attach it in clod chat, and have it upload the transistor. The a few things I learned after recording that that last episode. One, now I totally get why Caleb loves this format because it it taking away the friction is like once you take away the friction, then you can feel the inspiration happen.

Speaker 1: 01:56

Now I know why Caleb will often record multiple episodes in a row. It's like you'll have a thought, and you can just easily record the thought, get it out, publish it, and move on. But then, you know, an hour later, you might have another thought or another idea, something else you wanna process out loud. And just being able to do that fluidly with as little friction as possible is incredibly empowering and freeing. And I think yeah.

Speaker 1: 02:33

I I'm really excited to get this workflow kinda dialed in. I know Steven Robles has some magical shortcut on his iPhone that does a lot of this for him, and maybe I'll try that out as well as I, you know, keep exploring just what's the easiest way to publish a podcast episode. So that's one thing I learned. The other thing is that I a Phonic did an incredible job of removing like, there was so much loud noise behind me, like trucks, airplanes. It was incredibly loud.

Speaker 1: 03:10

I'm really impressed with a phonics background noise removal. The one thing it couldn't remove is my asthmatic breathing. I have to climb this this steep hill on my way home, and we're still in wildfire season here. So there's a lot of smoke, and you can definitely hear me wheezing as I as I record. So we'll I'm guessing recording here in my car is gonna produce better audio where I'm not breathing as heavy.

Speaker 1: 03:47

So, yeah, let's give this a shot. This is kind of attempt two, and we'll see if I can publish this whole thing from my phone.