On a recent Scriptnotes, I showed off ChatGPT to Craig and Scriptnotes guest Rian Johnson. We asked it to write up a plot summary for a future Knives Out movie set in space. We got an answer similar to this query I just ran: ((The prompt is “Give me a plot summary for a Knives […]
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Social media has always been dying
For this week’s Inneresting rebroadcast, editor Chris Csont chose this 2011 blog post in which I wondered how much of ourselves we present online. Even then, I was looking backwards: In the seven years I’ve been running the blog, I’ve noticed the online version of myself drifting closer to the “actual” version. But there is […]
The Free Stuff
My friend Nima recently pointed out that most of the stuff our company makes is free. That’s probably not a great business model, but it’s always been our culture. We only charge for those things that have significant ongoing costs — like upkeep and hosting — or a per-unit cost to produce. If you’re a […]
10 Year Anniversary
Episode - 516
Editor and critic Julia Turner puts John and Craig in the hot seat to review the past ten years of Scriptnotes. They cover the original mission, behind scenes fights, notable guests, and their biggest regrets. We also predict what we think the next ten years will bring and share a Scriptnotes love story. In our […]
How We Record Scriptnotes, 2020
Many listeners have asked how Craig and I record our weekly podcast. I wrote about it in 2013, but a few things have changed. So here’s an updated look at our standard operating procedures and gear. When and what Scriptnotes producer Megana Rao and Craig’s assistant Bo Shim figure out when we’re going to record. […]
Getting TextExpander and WorkFlowy to play nicely
We use WorkFlowy to outline Scriptnotes before we record. After 462 episodes, I finally decided to make a template for it so that I wasn’t typing it all from scratch every time. So I made a skeleton outline, which you can see here. Excited for the all time I was going to save, I copy-pasted […]
