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Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by matiastucci »

dotancohen wrote: post #33
proee wrote: post #27

Feedback: The "Cancel" and "Create" buttons are too close to each other. If you accidentally click on the "Cancel" button you lose your entire note. Perhaps move the cancel button to a less prominent position and add a confirmation dialog box.

Why is there a Cancel button at all? And I've stopped commenting on Youtube because a single Tab-Return hits the Cancel button. You have to remember to Tab-Tab-Return to hit the Comment button. It's like it was designed to loose comments!

because you can edit a note, if you cancel then you will create a one. I'll fix the tab issue. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by ehsankia »

ashton314 wrote: post #24

For the Emacs nerds among us, you can hack something similar together: when you start the video, also start a timer running in Emacs org-mode with `org-timer-start` (`C-c C-x 0`) You can then insert timestamped notes with `C-c C-x -`, and once you've got a timestamp note, you can hit `M-RET` to insert a new one with a new timestamp.

That's a great tip in general, but I assume the biggest benefit here really is being able to pause, rewind and seek around while staying in sync, which would be much harder for some external timer.

Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by ehsankia »

avivo wrote: post #26

Relatedly, if you want to skim videos to find relevant/interesting parts, this is incredibly useful: https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed

This is so much better than me doing right click > inspect element > `$0.playbackRate = 1.75`

That being said, Youtube itself is pretty good at this, with the shift+> hotkey, and the recent addition of 1.75 which is the sweet spot for me.

EDIT: What I fantastic extension, has all the options I could want (exclusion list, custom hotkeys, hide by default, etc).

Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by avivo »

ehsankia wrote: post #44
avivo wrote: post #26

Relatedly, if you want to skim videos to find relevant/interesting parts, this is incredibly useful: https://github.com/igrigorik/videospeed

This is so much better than me doing right click > inspect element > `$0.playbackRate = 1.75` That being said, Youtube itself is pretty good at this, with the shift+> hotkey, and the recent addition of 1.75 which is the sweet spot for me. EDIT: What I fantastic extension, has all the options I could want (exclusion list, custom hotkeys, hide by default, etc).

I have definitely been told by people that sharing this with them has significantly improved their quality of life, so I share it any chance I get. It's especially handy that it works with almost all online videos. (I have no affiliation, just a huge fan)

In fact, writing this comment inspired me to submit it as it's own top level post on HN.

Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by ashton314 »

ehsankia wrote: post #43
ashton314 wrote: post #24

For the Emacs nerds among us, you can hack something similar together: when you start the video, also start a timer running in Emacs org-mode with `org-timer-start` (`C-c C-x 0`) You can then insert timestamped notes with `C-c C-x -`, and once you've got a timestamp note, you can hit `M-RET` to insert a new one with a new timestamp.

That's a great tip in general, but I assume the biggest benefit here really is being able to pause, rewind and seek around while staying in sync, which would be much harder for some external timer.

Oh for sure. Though, it would not surprise me if someone has come up with some way to control video playback through Emacs.

Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by santa_boy »

I like the accessibility and non-intrusive nature of extensions sometimes and was happy to discover Rumin.

I've been going berserk since last week with a custom hack on top of Rumin (https://github.com/jhlyeung/rumin-web-clipper) that was recently posted on HN.

Rumin discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461070

Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by andreareina »

ehsankia wrote: post #43
ashton314 wrote: post #24

For the Emacs nerds among us, you can hack something similar together: when you start the video, also start a timer running in Emacs org-mode with `org-timer-start` (`C-c C-x 0`) You can then insert timestamped notes with `C-c C-x -`, and once you've got a timestamp note, you can hit `M-RET` to insert a new one with a new timestamp.

That's a great tip in general, but I assume the biggest benefit here really is being able to pause, rewind and seek around while staying in sync, which would be much harder for some external timer.

EMMS[1] might be part of the solution

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EMMS

Re: Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

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Post by eruleman »

fudged71 wrote: post #9

Would you be able to pull the transcript from YouTube for editing/commenting? That would be really useful for me. In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to RoamResearch

I've been listening to podcasts on YouTube, running RoamNER [0] on the transcript, and inputting the result into Roam.

[0] https://github.com/hmprt/RoamNER

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