Podcast Show Notes Template
Summary, takeaways, timestamps, and resources — exported clean for your host's editor.
Podcast Show Notes Builder
Need the short version for the podcast app instead? Use the episode description builder.
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Podcast show notes are the full write-up of an episode — summary, bulleted key takeaways, timestamps, resource links, and a guest bio — published on your hosting platform or site. Fill in the fields below and export it as clean HTML, Markdown, or plain text.
Need the short version for the app instead?
Show notes are the long-form page; the podcast description builder writes the short version that actually goes in your podcast app, for both the show and each episode.
Publishing the video version on YouTube too? Format it with the YouTube description template or the channel description builder.
What should podcast show notes include?
A summary of the episode, a bulleted list of key takeaways, timestamps, links to anything mentioned, and a short guest bio if there was one. Show notes are a full page, not a truncated app description — so they can be as long and as useful as it takes to make the episode findable and skimmable.
What's the format for podcast show notes?
Most hosting platforms — Buzzsprout, Captivate, Transistor — render show notes as basic formatted HTML: paragraphs, headings, bullet lists, bold text, and links. The export below is sanitized to exactly that set of tags, so it pastes cleanly into any of them without stray formatting breaking the editor.
Do Spotify show notes work the same way as Apple show notes?
Spotify pulls its show notes from the same episode description your hosting platform publishes, so there's no separate "Spotify shownotes" field to fill in — get the show notes right once on your host and both platforms display them.
Are show notes the same as an episode description?
No — the episode description is the short text shown in the podcast app itself, capped around 4,000 characters and often truncated to a couple of lines. Show notes are the longer page (often published on your own site too) with the full breakdown. Need the short version instead? Use the podcast description builder.