Dynamic Text Snippets for Description and Show Notes | Text Snippets

With dynamic text snippets, the existing feature for reusable text has been fundamentally extended.

Text snippets allow you to reuse prepared content multiple times in descriptions and show notes. Dynamic text snippets make it possible to add placeholders to them. When such a text snippet is changed, the content is automatically updated in all episodes in which it is used.

❗Changes affect already published episodes retroactively.

In addition, text snippets allow structured formatting using Markdown, helping to keep reused content consistent.

⚠️ Since the description field does not support HTML, using heavily formatted text snippets there should be avoided.

How it works

For each text snippet, you can optionally define a placeholder. This placeholder may only consist of alphanumeric characters and digits. By default, no text snippet has a placeholder.

When a text snippet with a placeholder is inserted, it appears in the show notes or description enclosed in curly brackets, e.g. {{sponsor}}. This placeholder acts as a reference and is kept up to date automatically.

⚠️ If a placeholder is used in show notes or descriptions that does not exist, it will automatically be replaced with empty text.

  Text snippets with placeholders are particularly powerful — and therefore sensitive to manage:

• Changing a placeholder is critical: If a placeholder is changed, all episodes that use it will lose that content. For this reason, the placeholder field is protected by a lock 🔒.
• Deleting a text snippet with a placeholder is also risky. When removing it, you will be informed how many episodes are affected. After deletion, the previously used content of the snippet will be removed from all affected episodes.
• Text snippets cannot be nested. It is not possible to use a text snippet within another text snippet.

You can continue to use text snippets without placeholders. In this case, they behave as before and changes only affect future insertions.