A best-in-class video note-taking experience in Obsidian.
Seamlessly capture and replay insights from YouTube videos, podcasts, and lectures into your knowledge base.
Create media notes instantly from a Youtube page using the provided bookmarklet (instructions here).
This lets you click a button in your browser bar and automatically create a note for the YouTube video you're watching while continuing playback from the current location.
You can turn any Obsidian note into a media note by using the Add file property
command, then typing in media_link
and pasting the URL.
Setup hotkeys to allow you to control the playback of the media you're taking notes on without leaving your note.
Hotkeys can be setup however you like through the Hotkeys settings page. Suggestion hotkeys for Mac users that mirror YouTube's hotkey layout: ⌃J - Jump Backward ⌃K - Play/Pause ⌃L - Jump Forward ⌃I - Insert Timestamp
Timestamps can be inserted for the current time in the video with a hotkey.
Clicking links that have the timestamp format (HH:MM:SS
) will jump the playback time for the note's media player to that timestamp.
Customize the viewing and note-taking experience with settings:
A media note is just a markdown note with a media_link
property that contains a supported URL format. For example:
---
media_link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFXWY8TqSWw
---
[02:01]() - A useful insight, ties to my thought that [[Connections are key to creativity.]]
Media notes display an embedded player fixed in the note pane, so that the note content can be scrolled while viewing the player.
Timestamps are inserted into the note as markdown links with a timestamp format:
[3:05:53]()
Clicking links that have the timestamp format (HH:MM:SS
) will jump the playback time for the note's media player to that timestamp.
Search "Media Notes" in the Obsidian Community Plugins library to find this plugin and add it.
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