Show HN: Turn YouTube Videos into AI-Generated Notes in Seconds

Posted by sohombh on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:09AM
from the show-hn dept.

i use youtube every day for things like tutorials, recipes, philosophy, podcasts, etc. i enjoy learning visually but it's nice to have something to read and learn from as well.

so i built this tool that turns youtube videos into AI-generated notes.

main features:

- inline citations to jump directly to the relevant part of the video just like how Perplexity cites sources

- share notes with anyone

- save notes as PDF or markdown

here's a demo for a 1.5 hour podcast episode with Satya Nadella discussing AI:

youtube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NtsnzRFJ_o&ab_channel=Bg2Po...

notes link - https://swiftnotes.ai/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fw...

would love to get some feedback on this

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Re:Show HN: Turn YouTube Videos into AI-Generated Notes in S... by ybhavish on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:32AM (#42697639)

I use youtube a lot for random research queries, but I hate going to youtube.com and seeing all the recos, shorts, etc.. This is a great idea for learning.

Tested with some job video: https://swiftnotes.ai/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fw...

One suggestion: a more shareable-looking link when sharing the URL might help with user to user spreading.

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Re:Show HN: Turn YouTube Videos into AI-Generated Notes in S... by sohombh on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @09:42AM (#42697761)

thank you and great suggestion. i'll work on making shareable links look better

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Re:Show HN: Turn YouTube Videos into AI-Generated Notes in S... by sohombh on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:02PM (#42703014)

new shareable link for the youtube video you gave. https://swiftnotes.ai?v=Sy0Mx4u-RHc

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Re:Show HN: Turn YouTube Videos into AI-Generated Notes in S... by robsalasco on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @07:43PM (#42705975)

great work! can you give us details about the tech stack that are you using?

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Re:Show HN: Turn YouTube Videos into AI-Generated Notes in S... by sohombh on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:33AM (#42726641)

Storage - S3

BE - Flask

FE - React

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Re:Show HN: Turn YouTube Videos into AI-Generated Notes in S... by gaguinaga2000 on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:08AM (#42739321)

Ok. I am impressed!

I fed a youtube Link to notebook LM and it came back saying: "This video cannot be imported. Transcript not available."

I fed it to swiftnotes.ai and worked like a champ.

Great work!!

Much love, Gabriel

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Re:Show HN: Turn YouTube Videos into AI-Generated Notes in S... by sohombh on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:42PM (#42742419)

thank you! if this is something you find useful would be great to chat. can reach me on X @sohombh

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