Video to Notes
Paste a video link and get notes you can actually keep — key points, timestamped chapters and the full transcript, ready to export. Free, no sign-up to start.
- Free to try — no sign-up needed
- Summaries in 14 languages
- Summary, transcript, mind map & Q&A
Try it on a popular video
No link handy? Jump straight into one of these.
But What Is a Neural Network?
3Blue1Brown's classic visual intro to deep learning.
Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator
Tim Urban's TED talk on why we procrastinate.
Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Address
The 2005 speech on life, death, and following your passion.
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Simon Sinek's TED talk on the Golden Circle.
What One Note Actually Contains
Most tools that promise to turn a video into notes hand back either a three-sentence summary or a raw transcript. The first throws away everything you might want later; the second is not notes, it is homework. What gets built here is one document with both ends of that range in it, arranged so you can start at the top and stop whenever you have what you came for.
- TL;DR — one paragraph, so you can decide whether the rest is worth reading.
- Key points — numbered, each with a heading and a sentence of detail, not a bare bullet list.
- Chapters — the video split into sections, each with bullet points, each bullet stamped with the second it was said.
- Full transcript — every line, timestamped, at the bottom. The note is complete, not a lossy summary.
- Your own notes — a writing field per video, saved to your account, for the part no AI can write for you.
The timestamps are the part that matters most and the part most tools drop. A note that says "he explains the trade-off around the middle" costs you ten minutes of scrubbing to use. A note where that line is a link to 34:12 costs you one click, and it still works six months later when you have forgotten the video entirely.
Your video notes are stored per video and per interface language. What you write on the English site stays in English, what you write on the Chinese site stays in Chinese — the same video can carry both, and neither overwrites the other.
A video note taker is only worth using if what comes out survives the move into your own notes app. Paste a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or X link and what comes back is not a wall of transcript: it is a structured note with a summary at the top, numbered key points under it, chapters that carry the timestamp of every point, and the full transcript at the bottom for when you need the exact wording. Every timestamp is a link back to that second in the video, and it stays a link after you export.
From a Link to a Note in Three Steps
Going from a YouTube video to notes takes about thirty seconds. YouTube to notes works without an account for short videos; TikTok, Instagram and X need a free sign-in.
Paste the video link
A YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or X (Twitter) URL. The video has to be public. If your recording is a file instead of a link, the upload page takes it too.
Read the note that comes back
Summary, key points, chapters and transcript arrive together. Click any timestamp to jump the video to that second and check the wording yourself.
Add your own lines, then export
Write your own note under the video, then send the whole thing to Obsidian or Notion, or download it as Markdown. Exporting needs a free account.
When a Video Needs to Become Notes
The common thread: you will want this again later, and "I watched a video about it" is not something you can search.
Lectures and recorded courses
A ninety-minute lecture becomes a page of key points with chapters, and every claim in your notes links back to the moment it was made — which is exactly what you need when you sit down to revise and cannot remember where something came from.
Conference talks and webinars
Talks are worth writing up while they are fresh, but nobody has ninety minutes twice. Read the key points, pull the two or three quotes that matter with their timestamps, and file the rest.
Research in someone else's format
Interviews, panels and podcast episodes carry information that only exists in spoken form. Turning them into searchable text is the difference between a source you can cite and a source you vaguely remember.
Tutorials you keep rewatching
Commands, settings and part numbers go by faster than you can write them down. Once the steps are text in your notes app, you stop reopening the video for the same thirty seconds.
Building a reading list you finish
Save videos into a collection and it becomes an ordered learning path with progress and a quiz at each step — so a playlist you meant to watch turns into notes you actually made.
Notes That Leave With You
A note locked inside someone else's web app is a note you will lose.
Summary and key points, not just a transcript
Every note opens with a one-paragraph TL;DR and a numbered list of key points, each with its own heading and detail line. The transcript sits underneath for the moments you need the exact words.
Turn a YouTube video into notesTimestamps that stay clickable after export
Chapters and bullet points carry the second they were spoken, written as deep links into the video. They survive the trip into Markdown, Obsidian and Notion — the note is still useful outside this site.
Turn a YouTube video into notesObsidian, Notion or Markdown
Send the whole note to Notion in one click, write it into your Obsidian vault with the plugin, or download plain Markdown and put it wherever you like. Exports need a free account.
Turn a YouTube video into notesA mind map, and answers you can keep
The same note also renders as a mind map when you want the shape of the argument instead of the order it was said in. Ask the video anything and the answer is grounded in its transcript — questions and answers are saved with the video and exported alongside the notes, so the thinking you did is part of the record.
Turn a YouTube video into notes