Allow timestamps to control embedded YouTube videos

[TomFrankly]

One of my customers just asked for something that's actually a great idea - the ability to control the position of an embedded YouTube video's playhead using timestamps. This would be fantastic for taking notes on YouTube videos within Roam. Honestly would be a game-changing feature for student especially.

I actually didn't know YouTube allowed this, but it does! And it seems that the code is actually quite simple for enabling it, at least for something like a WordPress site: https://wickydesign.com/how-to-add-timestamps-to-embedded-youtube-videos/

This feature is already in Roam, which is why my customer asked if it could be done in Notion. I wonder if it'd be possible to enable it through Notion Boost?

[GorvGoyl]

Hmm.. If I understood it correctly it could be done by going to youtube video -> right click and select copy video url at current time then in notion paste it -> create embed.

Let me know if it isn't what you're looking for.

[TomFrankly]

This would only create a link that would open the YouTube video at the specified timestamp in the browser.

The functionality I'm describing is more useful. In Roam, you can create a list of timestamps beneath an embedded video. Clicking these timestamps will make the embedded video go to that timestamp, right inside of Roam.

[GorvGoyl]

That's a neat functionality indeed. Let me see if it can be implemented in Notion.

[danilofaria]

I would like to emphasize that this feature would indeed be very useful. Is there a reason why the not-feasible label was added to it?

[Willian-Zhang]

Vote up, I'm using AI tool to generate timestamped summarization for videos as my workflow. This feature would be really helpful.

[Willian-Zhang]

I know it might be confusing if multiple videos are present on the same page. However all that my workflow needs is just one per page.

[akds-singh]

ya! this feature really needed