[qmmmur]

It sounds like the show notes are the most costly part I would assume? I imagined you were exhausting yourself on scrubbing through manually and editing little clicks, lip smacks, inhales out slowly. The former is much harder to automate away but the latter is definitely easy with some commercial audio plugins.

[nickjj]

I've timed myself going through episodes where the guest spoke very fluently vs guests where I had to stop every few seconds to cut a filler word. The latter takes multiple hours longer which makes me think the time consuming part isn't the show notes, but the mechanical editing. Each note only takes about 30 seconds based on listening to the last few minutes of what was said.

It is mentally taxing though, it means during the whole editing process my brain is constantly identifying and removing filler content, listening for specific tech choices to tag, listening for specific references that could be interesting to link, listening for mentions of libraries to link and also digesting the main takeaway of what's being said to sum it up into a note. All of this happens in 1 pass during the editing process. I tried doing it in 2 passes where I only focused on mechanical editing the first time around and doing the show notes on the 2nd but it took longer in the end.