Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube videos

Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by ashton314 on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:06PM (#24547836)

For the Emacs nerds among us, you can hack something similar together: when you start the video, also start a timer running in Emacs org-mode with `org-timer-start` (`C-c C-x 0`) You can then insert timestamped notes with `C-c C-x -`, and once you've got a timestamp note, you can hit `M-RET` to insert a new one with a new timestamp.

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Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by ehsankia on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:52PM (#24549609)

That's a great tip in general, but I assume the biggest benefit here really is being able to pause, rewind and seek around while staying in sync, which would be much harder for some external timer.

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Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by ashton314 on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:26PM (#24550002)

Oh for sure. Though, it would not surprise me if someone has come up with some way to control video playback through Emacs.

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Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by andreareina on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:39AM (#24550902)

EMMS[1] might be part of the solution

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EMMS

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Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by dotancohen on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:49PM (#24548302)

Thank you, I just started using org-mode today.

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Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by elviejo on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:17PM (#24549422)

oh welcome to the first day of the rest of your life emacs and org-mode are an investment that will pay dividends in your productivity for the rest of your life

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Re:Show HN: Take timestamped notes while watching YouTube vi... by matiastucci on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:38PM (#24548187)

thanks for the tip! it's a little less user friendly though haha

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