Episode Notes
Somewhere in the middle of an episode a host says the one thing you wanted to keep — a book title, a number, a line worth quoting. By the time you've found somewhere to write it down, it's four minutes back and you're scrubbing to find it again.
Write it down where it happened.
Episode Notes saves a timestamped note at any point in an episode — from the player, the mini player, or episode detail — and hands the whole collection back to you as Markdown, in an Obsidian vault, or on your own Nextcloud server.
Timestamped podcast notes, as you listen.
You can write a note from wherever you already are in the app, and the position you were at is saved with it — so the note always points back at the moment that prompted it.
From wherever you are
Write a note from the full player, the mini player, or episode detail. The timestamp comes along on its own — you type the thought, not the time code.
Or ask Siri
Ask Siri to bookmark the moment you're listening to, with dictated text if you want it. It works without opening the app, so it can hang off a Back Tap or an automation while you're walking or driving.
iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Write, tag, browse, and export notes on all three — iOS 18 or later on iPhone and iPad, macOS 14 or later on Mac. Obsidian export is the one path that is iPhone and iPad only.
Notes from chapters and transcripts.
A note doesn't have to start from a blank line. Long-press a chapter or a transcript line and choose Add Note — the note is stamped at that exact position and keeps the chapter title, or the quoted line, as context.
A chapter as the heading
Long-press a chapter in the chapter list to note it. YourPods reads chapters embedded in the audio file — ID3 in MP3, chapter atoms in MP4 and M4A — as well as chapters from the feed, so mainstream shows that ship chapters in the file finally show them.
A transcript line as the quote
Long-press a line in the transcript and the note keeps that line, word for word, alongside your own comment. The quote travels with the note into every export.
Search first, then note
Search inside a transcript from the transcript sheet. Matches are highlighted, the toolbar counts "3 of 12" with buttons to jump between them, and tapping one seeks there — so you can find the passage before you write about it.
Colour them, tag them, find them again.
Notes you can't find later are just typing. Every note you write lands in one list, and two small pieces of structure keep it navigable.
A colour and a few tags
Give a note a colour and comma-separated tags as you write it — book, recipe, follow-up, whatever your own filing looks like.
One list, grouped by episode
The Notes button in the Library toolbar opens everything you have ever written, grouped by episode, so a long series reads as one thread rather than scattered fragments.
Filter by tag
Narrow the list to a single tag to pull one thread out of months of listening — every book recommendation, across every show, in one view.
Export podcast notes to Markdown, Obsidian, or Nextcloud.
Notes that only live in a podcast app are notes you will lose. Every export path is in the app, free, and needs no account — the files are plain Markdown, and they are yours.
Markdown
Export everything as a single Markdown file with YAML frontmatter, grouped by episode, with timestamps, chapter titles, quoted transcript lines, and your tags as hashtags. Send it anywhere through the share sheet.
One .md file, through the share sheet
Obsidian
Send notes straight into an Obsidian vault. Set your vault name and mode in Settings → Notes: write a note per episode into a per-podcast folder under "YourPods Notes", append to today's daily note, or hand a .md file to the share sheet and file it yourself.
iPhone and iPad — daily-note mode needs the Advanced URI plugin
Nextcloud
If you sync with your own Nextcloud server, your notes can go there too — as Markdown files in a folder you choose, or as real notes in the Nextcloud Notes app, filed under a YourPods category per podcast, using the credentials you already saved.
On demand, or automatically on every sync
Notes cost nothing.
Writing notes and exporting them is free for everyone — Markdown, your own Nextcloud, and Obsidian on iPhone and iPad — all of it in the app, with no account and no subscription. There is no trial, no unlock, and no tier where the export button appears. What Pro adds is the hosted half: keeping notes in sync through a YourPods account and editing them in the web player. Neither is required to write a note or to get every note you have out of the app as Markdown you own.
What Pro adds.
Two things, and we would rather name them plainly than let you find out later. A YourPods account with Pro keeps your notes in sync across devices, and lets you read and edit them in the web player alongside the episode they belong to.
Neither is a gate. Capture is free, and export writes Markdown into your own Nextcloud with no YourPods account at all — free in this release, and in every release after it.
Common questions.
Are Episode Notes free, or is this a Pro feature?
Free, on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no account and no subscription. That covers writing notes, colouring and tagging them, browsing them from the Library, and every export — Markdown, Obsidian, and your own Nextcloud. Notes sync through a YourPods account and editing notes in the web player are Pro, but nothing about capturing a note or getting it out of the app is.
How do I export podcast notes to Obsidian?
Set your vault name and mode in Settings → Notes, on iPhone or iPad. YourPods can write a note per episode into a per-podcast folder under "YourPods Notes" in that vault, append to today's daily note — that mode needs the Advanced URI plugin — or hand a .md file to the share sheet so you can file it wherever you like. Obsidian export is iPhone and iPad only.
What is in the Markdown export?
One .md file with YAML frontmatter, grouped by episode. Each note carries its timestamp, the chapter title or the quoted transcript line it came from, and your tags as hashtags. It leaves through the share sheet, so it can land in Files, a message, or any editor that reads plain text.
Can I keep my podcast notes in my own Nextcloud?
Yes, if you already sync with your own Nextcloud server. Notes go there as Markdown files in a folder you choose, or as real notes in the Nextcloud Notes app, filed under a YourPods category per podcast. It reuses the credentials you saved for sync, runs on demand or automatically on every sync, and needs no YourPods account.
Can I take timestamped notes from a chapter or a transcript line?
Long-press a chapter or a transcript line and choose Add Note. The note is stamped at that exact position and keeps the chapter title, or the quoted line, as context — and that context travels into the Markdown, Obsidian, and Nextcloud exports with it.
Keep what you hear.
Episode Notes ships in YourPods 26.8.0, free for everyone — iPhone, iPad, and Mac, no account required. iOS 18 or later, macOS 14 or later.