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

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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

You can do this now using Hypothesis at docdrop.org-- just pick a youtube video and add URL.

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

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Great to see, here's a YouTube chrome extension I made that shows the timestamp comments publicly https://raven-points.herokuapp.com/

that looks great! I made an extension too, but to add videos to my app with one click: https://youtu.be/MiiKrvxSNbo

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

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post #11
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

You can do this now using Hypothesis at docdrop.org-- just pick a youtube video and add URL.

didn't know about docdrop, I thought it was similar to Annotate.tv but I got: "Our video annotation capability works for YouTube videos that have either human or machine-generated transcripts.". That's not a requisite on Annotate.

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

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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

> In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to RoamResearch

Or, an open-source alternative like Zettlr, Logseq, or Athens (coming soon): https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

In general, we shouldn't let expensive paid software like Roam leech value from plugins made by volunteers!

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

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can do this now using Hypothesis at docdrop.org-- just pick a youtube video and add URL.

didn't know about docdrop, I thought it was similar to Annotate.tv but I got: "Our video annotation capability works for YouTube videos that have either human or machine-generated transcripts.". That's not a requisite on Annotate.

You need to choose a YT video that has a auto-generated transcript. About 80%+ videos do I think. Choose another one. Docdrop+Hypothesis only works on transcripts-- it's not a timecode video annotator.

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

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

didn't know about docdrop, I thought it was similar to Annotate.tv but I got: "Our video annotation capability works for YouTube videos that have either human or machine-generated transcripts.". That's not a requisite on Annotate.

You need to choose a YT video that has a auto-generated transcript. About 80%+ videos do I think. Choose another one. Docdrop+Hypothesis only works on transcripts-- it's not a timecode video annotator.

yeah, I just tried it. It's pretty good!

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

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Interesting to see this.

A couple months ago I launched a site (https://familymemorystream.com/) that allows annotating videos but is targeted towards the niche of converted family videos.

I was considering opening it up to make a generic "video note taker" version; it looks like you beat me to it :) Best wishes! It will be interesting to see where you end up with the pricing model. It looks like you're using YouTube/Vimeo for the video hosting so that frees you up to do one-time purchases if you want since your server costs will likely stay fairly constant across scale.

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

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Interesting to see this. A couple months ago I launched a site ( https://familymemorystream.com/ ) that allows annotating videos but is targeted towards the niche of converted family videos. I was considering opening it up to make a generic "video note taker" version; it looks like you beat me to it :) Best wishes! It will be interesting to see where you end up with the pricing model. It looks like you're using YouTu…

that looks great. Yeah, I'm still figuring out the business model. I think a one time purchase is probably what I'm going to do. BTW, after launching it in Product Hunt I saw a few similar ideas too :)

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

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Interesting to see this. A couple months ago I launched a site ( https://familymemorystream.com/ ) that allows annotating videos but is targeted towards the niche of converted family videos. I was considering opening it up to make a generic "video note taker" version; it looks like you beat me to it :) Best wishes! It will be interesting to see where you end up with the pricing model. It looks like you're using YouTu…

that looks great. Yeah, I'm still figuring out the business model. I think a one time purchase is probably what I'm going to do. BTW, after launching it in Product Hunt I saw a few similar ideas too :)

You could probably sell subscriptions to you-tubers who want to annotate videos on their channels. I am sure they would find a way to do cool things with it.
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