Why I Use EchoNote for ALL My Podcasts — And You Should Too

I have a problem. Maybe you do too.

I listen to podcasts. A lot of them. Tech, marketing, startup stories, philosophy, science — if it's interesting, it's in my feed. I have 22 transcriptions in EchoNote right now, and that number grows every week.

But here's the embarrassing part: before I built EchoNote, I remembered almost nothing.

I could listen to a two-hour episode about growth marketing, nod along the entire time, and two days later fail to recall a single concrete strategy. Sound goes in. Sound goes out. Brain stores nothing.

That's why I built EchoNote.

#From Passive Listening to Active Learning

Podcasts are an incredible medium. But they have a fundamental weakness: they're linear, ephemeral, and impossible to search. You can't Ctrl+F a podcast.

That means all the knowledge being shared — concrete frameworks, data points, book recommendations, tool suggestions — disappears into the ether the moment it's spoken.

EchoNote solves this in three ways.

#1. Full Transcription — Every Word, Searchable

Every episode I listen to gets a complete transcription. Not an AI summary guessing what was important — but every single word, exactly as spoken.

Three weeks later, when I think "what was that tool the founder mentioned?", I search EchoNote and find it in two seconds.

#2. AI-Generated Notes — The Important Parts, Structured

A two-hour episode can contain 15-20,000 words. That's a novel. Nobody wants to read all of it.

EchoNote's AI reads the transcription and extracts what matters: key points, action items, people mentioned, books recommended. Structured. Digestible. Ready to act on.

#3. One Platform — Not 17 Different Apps

Before EchoNote, I had podcast notes in Apple Notes, book recommendations in Notion, and "that one good episode" as a screenshot in my camera roll. Chaos.

Now everything lives in one place. Searchable. Organized. Accessible.

#What I Actually Use It For

Three concrete ways EchoNote changed my workflow.

Research for blog posts. I search my transcriptions for relevant episodes, find quotes and data in seconds, and have a solid research foundation ready.

Book recommendations. Every book mentioned in a podcast gets captured automatically. I've discovered books I never would have found otherwise.

Competitor research. I listen to podcasts in my industry, transcribe them, and search for keywords. Instant market insight.

#Why I Built It Myself

I tried the existing solutions. Otter.ai, Descript, Fireflies. They're fine — for meetings. But they're not built for podcast listeners.

I wanted something that works with Danish podcasts, gives me control over my data, and is built for learning — not just transcription.

So I built EchoNote. Because the tool I wanted didn't exist.

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I listened to 200+ podcasts without remembering anything. Now I remember everything.

That's the difference between hearing and learning.

EchoNote is in beta. Learn more at echonote.dk