> 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!

People are going to build for the tools that have strong network effects. Those Roam clones you mention have none at the present moment.

And I don't see how a Roam Research integration would be "leeching value," especially because it will eventually be possible to build paid plugins for Roam, which opens the revenue door for devs building plugins.

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.

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

I've been listening to podcasts on YouTube, running RoamNER [0] on the transcript, and inputting the result into Roam.

[0] https://github.com/hmprt/RoamNER

Yeah, I have that in my backlog. I still need to take a look and see how hard it is. Thanks for the feedback!

That was my initial thoughts too.

Basically show the subtitles as it's going along (last 10-20 seconds), and allow a user to copy/paste text or instantly grab sentences.