🎙️ Turns Out I Don't Need Snipd Afterall ...
I have had three actions in ‘Things’ now for weeks. They were there to remind me to post a snippet from three podcasts that I wanted to share. The actual snipping and posting is not that hard - so why did I need to set a reminder?
BECAUSE
I use Overcast to listen to Podcasts and I had no intention of moving my listening experience over to Snipd. Earlier in the year I had been playing with Snipd. and even posted a couple … 🔗 here and 🔗 here, but the friction on the adhoc process in the workflow - not so easy.
Snipd is a good app for extracting a slice and posting. BUT I listen to Podcasts in Overcast, so when I wanted to snip something, I had to;
- make a mental note of where in the podcast I was
- go to Snipd
- find the podcast
- find the episode
- get to the part I want to snip …
… and only then could I start the process.
Clumsy - at best - and lots of friction - so I just made a note in Things - which you now know I never got round to!
I might be blind, ignorant or stupid - but tonight I discovered that Overcast offers very similar (identical?) functionality. Is that new? Am I really that slow?
Anyway, just tried out the Overcast mechanism - and very nice, sitting right there in front of me.
🔗 My first example
Snipd account deleted.
💬 John Philpin Usability question.
Going forward - for posts like this .. do I need the line
blah blah blah (click on the image to listen)
or is it clear that the image is clickable?
(Personally I would like the Overcast peeps to add one of those little 'play buttons' on the image they provide when you slice out some audio )
BUT - until then ... what do you all think?
Leon Mika I think for me, if I mouse over the image and see the cursor become a hand, I know that it's clickable. So I don't think you need the "click the image" copy. That said, I do tend to know clips from Overcast are clickable anyway so not sure I'm super representative of other visitors.
Dr. Adam Procter 💬 John Philpin @adamprocter 2019? Seriously?
I need to move back into my cave!
Thankyou Adam.
Miraz Jordan I think as it stands there's lots of scope for ambiguity and confusion. It looks like an image not an audio clip, plus it contains text that might appear to represent the point you're making. A hand cursor could lead one to a larger image. It's not clear that it's an audio clip. I'd suggest clear text that includes an approximate duration for the clip — something like "click the image to hear a 15 second audio clip".
Pratik Not apparent. If there was a giant grey play icon on top of it (like YouTube) then maybe.
💬 John Philpin @pratik like this - which is how i did it with SNIPD - but that was me editing the image - and not 'easily' done, so trying to avoid - sounds like I will still need the 'caption'.
Thankyou - and to @miraz - who said pretty much the same thing.
Pratik @miraz much better although I wish it started playing in-page.
💬 John Philpin @pratik yes agreed .. not sure what I need to do to get it to play in page … exploration time.
💬 John Philpin @pratik You mean like this?
// @Miraz
I will explain the magic in another post.
Pratik