Guides
How to get hours of audio and video into the tools you actually think in. Each guide covers the manual route as well as the shortcut — they work whether or not you use SourceWeaver.
How to get a podcast into Gemini Notebook
Turn podcast episodes into clean, attributed source documents Gemini Notebook can cite — including how to handle a whole back catalogue without burning through the source limit.
How to turn a YouTube channel into an Obsidian vault
Turn video transcripts into a linked Obsidian vault with a map of content, wikilinks, and queryable frontmatter — instead of a folder of orphaned notes.
How to chunk transcripts for RAG (what the data says)
Chunk size is the biggest lever in transcript RAG. Measured results from a controlled factorial: ~200-token chunks, and why contextual-retrieval prefixes may be doing nothing for you.
How to bulk transcribe a back catalogue
Transcribing hundreds of episodes is a pipeline problem, not a transcription problem. What actually costs money and time, and the order of operations that avoids paying twice.
How to turn lecture recordings into Anki flashcards
Turn recorded lectures into spaced-repetition cards that are actually reviewable — atomic questions, one fact per card, with the source kept so you can check anything.
How to get a YouTube video or channel into Gemini Notebook
Gemini Notebook accepts some YouTube links but not a whole channel. How to get video content in at scale, with citations that name the right video.
How to turn a podcast into Obsidian notes
Turn podcast episodes into a linked Obsidian vault — one note per episode, queryable frontmatter, and an index that makes the archive navigable instead of a pile of text.
How to get “who said what” in a transcript
Speaker diarization turns a wall of text into an attributed conversation. How it works, where it fails, and how to fix the labels afterwards.
How to clean up a messy AI transcript
Fix filler, false starts, and misheard names in machine transcripts — improving readability without rewriting what was actually said.
How to build a searchable sermon archive
Turn decades of recorded sermons into a searchable, quotable archive — what to digitise, how to organise it, and what makes it actually usable for a congregation.
How to turn a podcast or series into an ebook
Turn a series of episodes into a readable EPUB for a Kindle or tablet — what has to change when spoken words become a book.
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