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Video Notes
Remember every insight, without leaving YouTube.
A private browser extension that anchors your thoughts to the exact second of the video that produced them. Write, draw, or ask a question across everything you have saved.
Capture
One key.
Anywhere.
Anytime.
Press β₯ N on macOS, or Alt N on Windows, anywhere on a watch page. The video pauses, a writing surface opens at the current timestamp, you type. Hit return β the player picks up where you stopped.
See it in action βΊ
Recording at 07:18
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07:18
Re-watch the whiteboard segment. Loss vs. cost β he's conflating them|
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Visual annotations
Some moments need
a drawing.
Pause on any frame and annotate directly over the video. Circle the detail, trace the path, label the idea β then save it to that exact timestamp.
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on macOS
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on Windows
Stay in the flow.
The video pauses while you draw. Choose Done and playback returns exactly where you stopped.
Find the frame again.
Drawing markers show a visual preview on the timeline and a clear badge in the popup. Open one to return to its exact frame, paused with the drawing visible.
Timeline
The scrubber, remembered.
Every note becomes a marker on the timeline. Hover for a preview. Click to jump straight to the moment that produced it. Six months later, the path back is still one second of effort.
Video Notes
02:41
Hook enters early β same framing as Ep. 07.
00:00
5 NOTES ANCHORED TO THIS VIDEO
42:17
Search
Everything
you've noted.
One click away.
Click the extension icon. A searchable index of every note across every video appears, sorted by timestamp. Type to filter. Open any note at its exact second; drawing notes reopen paused with the annotation placed over the saved frame.
Try the search βΊAsk your notes
The answer is already
in your library.
Ask across every note, one video, or a tag. Video Notes answers from what you saved and cites the exact moments behind the answer, so you can verify the context without rewatching everything.
Ask your notes
Your question
What ideas did I save about remembering what I learn?
You kept returning to three ideas: retrieve the idea before reviewing it, space those retrievals over time, and connect each note to a question you can answer later.
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Only my notes
Your Gemini key stays on this device.
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Choose the scope.
Search your whole library, narrow to one video, or use a tag.
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Verify every answer.
Open each citation at the exact YouTube timestamp that produced it.
03
Keep your voice.
Turn on βOnly my notesβ to restrict answers to what you actually wrote.
Review
Open a new tab.
Get quizzed.
Switch on new-tab flashcards and every blank tab becomes one multiple-choice question β written by Gemini from the notes you actually took. Answer it, read the note behind it, and jump straight to that second of the video. Bring your own free key; it stays on your device.
Privacy
Yours by default.
Yours by design.
Every note lives in chrome.storage.local on your machine. No accounts. No sync. No telemetry.
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Just the lecture.
Hide recommendations, comments, merchandise. Promote theater mode. Preference persists.
HOLD Β· 1.3s
Hold to delete
No accidental losses.
Delete on press-and-hold with an animated progress ring β enabled by default, toggle off in settings.
07:18
Re-watch whiteboard segment
Quiz mode
Quiz the full deck.
Prefer a focused session? Open the popup and play the whole deck end to end β the same Gemini-made questions, scored as you go.
## *video-title*
- *time-url* *note*
// edit in settings
- *time-url* *note*
// edit in settings
Markdown
Pipe to anywhere.
Editable template β *video-title*, *time-url*, *note*. Drop into Obsidian or Notion.
Get Video Notes
Install once.
Take notes on every video.
Couple seconds to install. No account, no signup. The next video you open is ready to be noted down at the exact second, in your own words.
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