Preview. This is a test version of a free suite tool, on the suite's test site.
Turn a poll worker interview into a newsletter feature
Interview one of your poll workers: type their answers below, or add the transcript of a recorded or Zoom interview. Then press Write it to get a newsletter article, a short spotlight for your website or social media, and a Q&A, ready to edit and download for Word, Google Docs or as a PDF.
What happens to the interview. Your answers, transcript and photo stay in this web browser. When you press Write it, the answers and transcript (never the photo) are sent to Claude, an AI, to draft the article. We don't keep them. The Q&A version is made right here, with no AI. Clear removes everything from this browser.
1. Before you start
Print the questions to take to the interview, or to hand to a poll worker to fill in on paper.
2. The interview
Every question is optional. Short answers are fine: the writer works from whatever you have. On an iPad, tap the microphone on the keyboard to talk instead of type.
Have a recording or transcript? Add it here
Add the transcript from Zoom (the .vtt file in the recording's folder), from your phone's Voice Memos (tap the recording, then the transcript, then copy), from Otter, or any text or Word file. Write it fills in the questions below from what was said, then writes the article.
A photo (optional)
The photo stays in this browser. It goes into your downloads, never to the AI.
3. Write it
Claude drafts the article and the spotlight from the interview. It uses only what's in the interview, and you can change every word afterwards.
4. Your feature
The Q&A is the questions with the answers in box 2, as they are. Change an answer in box 2 to change it here.
How it will look
Before you publish: check the box in step 1 once the poll worker has agreed to be featured.
Copied. Now open a new Google Doc and paste (on an iPad, tap and hold, then Paste). Add the photo there with Insert, then Image. Or open the Word download in Google Drive: it becomes a Google Doc with the photo.
Keeping your work
This web browser keeps the interview, so it's still here next time on this computer or iPad. Download a backup to keep a copy or move it to another device.
Tips for a good interview
- Ask for a story, not a summary: "Tell me about a voter you remember" gets more than "Do you like it?"
- Ask how they want their name printed, and check the spelling.
- Leave out anything they'd rather keep private, like their street or their employer.
- Recording? Ask first, then let the recording do the remembering so you can listen.
- Read the draft back to them, or send it, before it's published.