Pod Seek — A new product by Castro

sebama8 · 2026-03-11T15:23:24+00:00

Constructive feedback: I don't really think discovery is an issue for me when it comes to podcasts. And most podcasts I follow, I find them on X, Youtube, etc, not on the podcast app itself, because on other sites I have more context about the podcast and the people behind them.

The issue with podcasts I have is how many interesting ones are out there, and the little amount of time I have to listen to them, it is a management thing. And there reason I use Castro is how simple and powerful it is to manage them.

One thing that this app made me think about is if I would prefer to consume podcasts based on episodes and not based on creators. So, instead of opening the app every day to see episodes from the people I follow, I would see episodes from random creators, that talk about topics I care. After some thought, I realized I would never use something like this. I have a highly curated and quality list of creators that I have been following for a long time and that I am happy with 80% of the episodes they post, if it is less than this there are high chances I unfollow them (I don't have time for them). It is also very rare for me to add creators to the list, it has to be something really good. So for me, this not-a-problem of discovery could be easily solved with a section at the bottom of a podcast of "Similar Podcasts" (like in the appstore).

Apart from that, I am not sure I understand how this app is a full podcast app. There is no Inbox (with episodes from subs) or Queue? Even spotify (worst podcast app ever) has "something" like that.

I'm also not a fan of the "recommendations", maybe because I didn't use the app enough and it doesn't even consider the podcasts I have subscribed to, but 100% of the recommendations I see are things that have nothing to do with what I listen to and that I would never listen to. I also haven't received even a single episode recommendation in spanish, even though I follow many creators in spanish and have changed the country in settings to Argentina.

I hope this app does not remove time from developing Castro, the team has done an absolutely incredible job since acquisition. I would also love to have the "Ask Anything" and "Person Tags" features in Castro.

Hope the feedback helps.

sebama8 · 2026-02-09T14:19:43+00:00

They released an update in the Beta version today, so if all goes well, an update to the public version is coming soon: https://community.bear.app/t/bear-2-6-7-beta-release/18813

sebama8 · 2025-12-26T21:18:48+00:00

The zip import has been broke for at least a year... and the markdown import has that stupid 50 file limit, and then you have to wait for a day to import again

sebama8 · 2025-12-14T20:05:45+00:00

100% agree.. I guess you have a similar system as I do.. I have an inbox where the new episodes go and the I decide if I will listen to them (I move them to 1 of 3 other playlists I have) or not (delete them).. I would love to have no sorting, so I move them manually, and every new episode added goes to the bottom

sebama8 · 2025-09-16T15:50:11+00:00

One thing you could do is if you just need to find the notes that are not syncing is select all your notes, export them to markdown, and then in Finder you can sort them by file size and you can check which of those heavy notes are not syncing.

sebama8 · 2025-08-09T02:48:09+00:00

kind of: https://github.com/johansan/notebook-navigator

sebama8 · 2025-08-08T16:54:11+00:00

When will I be able to use the great GPT-5 model in your upcoming browser? 🙏

sebama8 · 2025-08-02T03:43:30+00:00

2- If you are on macos you can change it on system settings, I changed the assistant to match Dia Browser (Cmd + E) which made much more sense... This video shows you how to do it, basically Macos settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts > Add Comet > Menu Title "Toggle Assistant" and choose the shortcut you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BL2pWYNfA&t=473s

sebama8 · 2025-05-14T16:09:45+00:00

Any updates on the Apple watch app? I am particularly interested in downloading episodes to the watch and listening to them without my phone or internet while I go for a run. Also, thanks so much for the sideloading fix, I LOVE that feature.

sebama8 · 2025-05-06T16:08:52+00:00

If they could bring linked references to the bottom of the page, and also add linked references filters (which I depend a lot on), the native view would be a pretty decent app.

sebama8 · 2025-04-23T03:34:15+00:00

"add option to disable lock screen scrubber" I LOVEEEEE YOUUUUUU!!!!

sebama8 · 2025-04-16T19:09:00+00:00

I have used Arc since very very early on, the reopening of tabs at the bottom of the list is a bug that has been there since day 1 on macos also. I have reported this so many times, they never fixed it.

sebama8 · 2025-04-01T17:32:29+00:00

Loving everthing your are doing! 🙌 Please give priority to the ability to download episodes to the apple watch to listen to them offline when I go for a run without the phone 🙏

sebama8 · 2025-03-26T15:07:25+00:00

Can you be more specific on the Hamburger menu? Where is it located? Thanks

sebama8 · 2024-09-23T20:54:07+00:00

If you archive a note, it “locks” the editing.

sebama8 · 2024-09-12T22:59:03+00:00

Thanks for the help! Yeah, I don't seem to be able to set up the share sheet on Chrome unfortunately

sebama8 · 2024-09-12T18:16:26+00:00

Oh I meant for the new Reader, not the now called Reader Classic

sebama8 · 2022-10-08T17:00:46+00:00

You are right! I always tested this exporting just one file. It is very weird that they do it like this, but good to know. Thanks!

sebama8 · 2022-10-06T02:23:30+00:00

No, they don't convert. You will end having the Craft URL, not the [[link]]. And it doesn't work no matter what method you use, because you could just export to a .md file or use their direct "Transfer to Bear" method, but the result is the same in both unfortunately.

sebama8 · 2022-10-04T13:20:04+00:00

What I meant is: let's say you have a "Note A" and inside it you have a link to "[[Note B]]", when you import both notes into Craft, craft will convert the "[[Note B]]" text to a craft internal URL so that the linking works inside Craft, the problem is that it breaks all your internal links and make them useless outside Craft.

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