I’m a good 50/50 split on music and podcasts while I’m driving. So lots of podcasts! I love them! I use Overcast, and it’s got a decent CarPlay app. So I see this screen a lot:
It shows 3 podcasts I’ve started and 5 of the most recently published podcasts to choose from.
THIS IS THE SCREEN.
I want to be able to go: I’m done with this podcast episode!
It’s pretty common that I listen to half an episode or so and I feel like I get it, or it just isn’t for me this time. I want to whisk it away! I’m done! Replace it with something else, please.
In Overcast, it’s likely I have 10+ podcasts I’ve started, so when I remove one of the top ones, it could just be replaced by another. But that doesn’t even matter; that area could be cleared out.
I just don’t listen to every episode of every podcast. My drive time doesn’t allow for that. So I try to monitor my attention and engagement, and if a podcast isn’t grabbing me, I shoo it away and move on to the next.
The trouble is, there is no mechanism for this in the Overcast CarPlay app at all. The only thing is either getting out my phone to swipe away the ones I’m done with, or playing the podcast and 30-sec-skipping my way to the end so it’s marked as finished.
A swipe gesture to archive, or just an archive button, would be great.
This is one of the features I like about Netflix. You can remove things from your “currently” watching list. Disney Plus does not have this functionality and so movies that I watched but didn’t go through all the end credits so on that list. Drives me crazy.
I can see how that is even more important when listening to podcasts because you don’t always want to listen to the whole episode (unless it is Shop Talk :) ).