How should I format show notes?

  • Updated on Nov 18, 2024
  • Published on Jun 25, 2024
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Apple, Spotify  and other podcast apps have some differences between them in how they display your shownotes, links and formatting.

Show notes can be added to your episodes via the description field in Omny, found on the Details page of any Clip (episode).

Omny supports you adding these show notes with formatting options like bold and italic, bullet points or number points, line breaks and quotes, as above.

However, not all podcast apps support all formatting options. For example, the breakdown below shows the formatting options that are supported in Apple and Spotify podcast apps.

Apple Podcasts

Apple Podcasts changed the way it displayed episode notes in iOS 14.6. Older versions may behave differently than as described below.

Apple Podcasts iOS 14.6+:

  • Displays itunes:summary (from Optional episode metadata > Summary) if it exists, rather than description. If you remove itunes:summary from your RSS, it displays the description (from Description field in Omny).

  • HTML support: Does not support bold/italic. Does support <ul> <li> bullet points.

  • Automatically turns raw URLs into clickable links.

  • Does not supports non-HTML line breaks.

  • This app limits the Description field to 4000 characters.

  • Embedded hyperlinks (<a href... tags) are not supported.

Spotify (cross platform app)

  • Only displays the description (from Description field in Omny).

  • Does not support bold/italic.

  • Does not support bullet points.

  • Does support embed links.

  • Automatically turns raw URLs into clickable links.

  • Spotify does support non-HTML line breaks.