The Tools for Podcasters Guide is Live!
When I came up with the idea for Podcast Workflows — nearly a year ago at CEX 2023 — one of the aspects of the site was to have a “Tools” page — something that could showcase the tools used in the deep dives I was doing.
But I didn’t want to rush it. I wanted to focus on the content and see where the site went.
Well, in November, I made the decision to move from weekly breakdowns to more regularly published content around all aspects of podcast workflows, processes, and systems.
That kicked off (unofficially) with Podcast Advent, and in January I started publishing more regularly. I also had my VA move all relevant content from both Casabona.org and Podcast Liftoff to Podcast Workflows.
And today, I’m excited to announce an important piece of cornerstone content: version 1.0 of that Tools page I wanted to build last year.
A few things to know about the first version of this page:
- It’s not comprehensive…yet. Right now, it’s tools I have direct or indirect experience with so I could speak to actually using them.
- There are several categories, but I plan on adding more based on feedback and questions.
- Each tool has 3 attributes:
- A star rating, 1-5. That rating is the tool relative to the category it’s in, so you may noticed that Riverside.fm, for example, has 2 different ratings.
- A Pros/Cons list
- A “Best for” list. This is difference scenarios for why you might choose that tool over the others in its category.
- It’s not an affiliate farm, but there are affiliate links
- There’s a Table of Contents, so you can easily browse by category
And here’s what’s up next:
- Add more tools
- Fill out each section with more context and links to other stories on the site
- Create short-form “scenarios” combining the tools to build kits for different podcasters
- Move my gift guide to the site so that there’s a hardware section too
I’d love your feedback — let me know what you like, and what you’d like to see!