Guides & How-Tos

Professional Interview Management -- transform interviews into memorable conversations with intelligent preparation and seamless capture.

Follow a complete interview journey from initial idea through planning, recording, and publishing—see the full power of InterviewCue's workflow.

Create interviews from markdown imports or from scratch, organize them with shows, search your library, and manage your interview workflow.

Craft effective interview questions with rich background notes, structure your conversation for success, and prepare like a pro.

Organize reference links for your interviews -- automatically extracted from imports, opened as visual tabs during recording, and copied for show notes.

Master InterviewCue's live mode -- navigate questions, capture events with hotkeys, stay present with your guest, and build a perfect timeline.

Review your interview timeline, fine-tune timestamps with audio scrubbing, align with transcripts, export in professional formats, and produce a polished episode.

Share your interview timeline with producers, editors, and collaborators -- they get full read-only access to your timeline, exports, audio, and transcripts without needing an account.

Complete keyboard shortcuts reference for InterviewCue -- event capture hotkeys, audio scrubber controls, and navigation shortcuts.

Rehearse your interview in a safe environment -- same interface, same hotkeys, nothing saved.

Conduct interviews with your team in real-time -- co-hosts capture events while you stay focused on the conversation, and guests follow along.

InterviewCue automatically generates high-quality WebVTT transcripts from your audio -- no extra tools or services needed.

How to prepare effectively in InterviewCue -- from writing questions that become great chapters to running a final check before you hit record.

What each InterviewCue export format contains, what the output looks like, and which format to use for each purpose.

Create and manage shows to organize your interviews and drive the metadata embedded in every produced MP3.

Use an Elgato Stream Deck to trigger interview events like highlights, flow interruptions, and more with a single button press.

Quick answers to common questions about InterviewCue-pricing, features, privacy, technical requirements, and workflow questions.

Solutions to common InterviewCue problems, organized by when they occur.