Before uploading podcast notes: keep quotations separate from interpretations

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Vane supports asking questions about uploaded text files. For a podcast research task, I made a short manual source-checking guide for preparing the notes before that step:

https://tubetext.dev/podcast-transcript-research-notes/

The useful artifact is a note template, not a Vane integration:

• keep the selected episode URL and the version you listened to;
• put the candidate passage and its reported timestamp beside what you actually confirmed by listening;
• keep your summary separate, and mark unsupported points as unresolved;
• compare episodes by the same research question without treating a small selected set as a representative survey.

For one episode, the publisher's transcript or a podcast player's transcript may already be sufficient. Keep the original transcript separately, and only upload material you are authorized to share. This does not change Vane's citation pipeline, prevent context truncation, or guarantee that an answer is supported—check the answer against the original recording and your notes.

Disclosure: I maintain TubeText. The linked guide includes an optional paid Apify transcription workflow; the manual template does not require using it. The guide and this post were prepared with AI assistance. I have not run or tested this workflow in Vane, and this is not a new transcription or research result.