Video Notes

Remember every insight, without leaving YouTube.

A small Chrome extension that anchors your thoughts to the exact second of the video that produced them. Press a key, write, return at will.

Capture

One key.
Anywhere.
Anytime.

Press ⌥ 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 — the player picks up where you stopped.

See it in action  â€ş
Recording at 07:18
video paused
07:18  Re-watch the whiteboard segment. Loss vs. cost — he's conflating them|
↵save & resume esccancel

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 — same framing as Ep. 07.
00:00 5 NOTES ANCHORED TO THIS VIDEO 42:17

Privacy

Yours by default.
Yours by design.

Every note lives in chrome.storage.local on your machine. No accounts. No sync. No servers. No telemetry.

100%
Offline by default
0
Network permissions
142 KB
Bundle size
MIT
Open source

Share

A read-only mirror, on demand.

Hit Share and Video Notes spins up a unique link bundling the video and every timestamped note into a clean, read-only page. The URL lands in your clipboard. No account required — not for you, not for whoever opens it.

And more

Small touches that add up.

sidebar
comments
merch
Zen mode

Just the lecture.

Hide recommendations, comments, merchandise. Promote theater mode. Preference persists.

HOLD ¡ 1.3s
Hold to delete

No accidental losses.

Delete on press-and-hold with an animated progress ring — enabled by default, toggle off in settings.

07:18
Re-watch whiteboard segment
Flash cards

Review what stuck.

Bring your own Gemini API key (stored locally) and Video Notes turns every note you've ever taken into a flip-card deck for self-quizzing.

## *video-title*
- *time-url* *note*
// edit in settings
Markdown

Pipe to anywhere.

Editable template — *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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