And then we decided that we would grab all those
external social media comments and bring it all
together in one page. And it makes it much more
interesting when you can see the full conversation
from various different places all in one page.
You know, Claire, when you suddenly get that,
oh, that's great, a reference to, I don't know,
a film or a book or something you want to look
up later or just a memorable comment that was
made by somebody in the actual audio, well, you
can now write your own private notes. Welcome
to Fanzone, your bite -sized guide to getting
the most out of the TrueFans podcast app. In
each episode, we'll discuss an aspect of the
app and hopefully answer any questions you may
have about it. Plus, when you listen to Fanzone
in TrueFans, you can earn as you listen and
use your earnings to support your favourite podcasters.
I'm Claire Waite Brown, independent podcaster
and all -round podcast enthusiast. And I'm Sam
Sethi, the CEO and founder of TrueFans. We are
working our way across the tabs on the episode
screen. Listen back to Episode 7 if you're not
sure what I mean by the episode screen. We have
spoken about the next tab before. This tab is
labelled Comments and I'm assuming it relates
to the comments icons that we spoke about in
Episode 10. Is it like an amalgamation of what
you can do with comments on that tab, Sam? Yeah.
What we've done recently is allow you to write
a comment on that tab. You might want to have
a reply to someone else's comment, which you
can do on that page and that tab. Equally, we
are now pulling in comments from social media
apps, so from Bluesky, from X, and from... activity
pub clients like Mastodon and the reason we want
to do that is because people are enabling podcast
creators to put a link to a social media post
which says if you want to write a comment about
my episode leave it here and then we decided
that we would grab all those external social
media comments and bring it all together in one
page and it makes it much more interesting when
you can see the full conversation from various
different places. all in one page. Brilliant.
So you're going to be able to see comments. I'm
just making sure I've got this clear. You're
going to be able to see comments that have been
made in TrueFans, but also comments that have
been made on relevant social, associated social
media accounts. Correct. Cool. We will no doubt
speak in more detail about the connection in
future episodes. Moving along the tabs again,
this is an intriguing one. The next tab is called
Notes. What can I do here? Well, notes are private
notes just for you. And so what we wanted to
do was allow you, while you're listening to a
podcast, you know, Claire, when you suddenly
get that, oh, that's great, a reference to, I
don't know, a film or a book or something you
want to look up later or just a memorable comment
that was made by... somebody in the actual um
audio well you can now write your own private
notes and then when you go back to that episode
maybe a week month even a year later you might
go oh let me look at my notes and what did i
write oh that that reminds me yes that's what
i was thinking and you can timestamp the notes
specifically as well you can timestamp the notes
you can actually copy those notes as well we
are in a future version of the notes we will
make a toggle button to allow you to turn those
from private notes which they currently are into
public notes like comments really and that will
allow you to then share them socially as well
so that when somebody clicks on that social link
they can actually see your note at the moment
if you shared them the link would then go to
a blank page because they're still private to
you Got it. So what we've got here is if you
comment, then you are writing a comment to the
podcast. It will be seen by anybody that listens
to that podcast and by the podcaster. If you
write a note, that is a note for yourself. It's
something private that you want to just like
mark about the audio. And if you want to in the
future, you can share that. But right now, that's
just a note for yourself. And that's the difference
between those two. commands. And talking about
transcripts as we did previously, you will actually
also in that future update to the private notes
be able to highlight a section of a transcript
and turn that into a note as well. So you might
want to highlight some text and then add your
own words around that text rather than type it
all out from scratch. Brilliant. Makes absolute
sense. Thank you so much, Sam. Thanks, Claire.
Thanks so much for listening. There are lots
more episodes of Fanzone for you to get stuck
into and that show you how to make the most of
the fab features that this forward -looking podcast
app has to offer podcast listeners and creators
alike. We'd love to hear from you. You can send
us a comment on TrueFans, more about that in
the Fanzone episode on comments, or email support@
truefans .fm.