Second brain for Youtube

Have your own second brain for Youtube. Summarize videos and save notes.

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Second Brain for YouTube - Summarize and Save Notes

"Second Brain for YouTube" is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your learning from YouTube videos. It automatically transcribes and summarizes video content, allowing you to save and edit notes easily. You can store these summaries directly to your Capacities account. This free-to-use extension prioritizes your data safety, ensuring all information remains on your machine or in your Capacities account, with no personal data collected. Perfect for personal use, it helps you retain and apply knowledge efficiently!

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By: https://devwithcoffee.com

Users: 606

Rating: 2.89

(19)

Version: 1.1.13 (Last updated: 2024-12-07)

Creation date: 2024-04-28

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Host permissions:

https://api.capacities.io/*
https://chatgpt.com/*

Size: 296.96K

Email: hi*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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# 36,726 ▲ 601

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#1222 in Education ▼ 10 #158 in subscriptions keyword 16 ▼ 8 #237 in safe keyword 41 ▼ 10

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Extension summary

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I am Himanshu Srivastava, a 22-year old software developer based in Bengaluru, India. Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/himanshuSri24 Github: https://github.com/himanshuSri24 Mail: mailto:[email protected] Website: https://devwithcoffee.com Project Link: https://www.devwithcoffee.com/projects/second-brain-for-youtube/

I learn a lot from YouTube, and I wanted to build a tool that could help me retain and apply that knowledge. So, I built a second brain using AI, which helps me learn better and faster! 🚀

This is a chrome extension which automatically transcribes summarizes the content of the videos I watch. 🧠 Not just that, it can also save the markdown files for easy editing. ✨

I decided to take things a little further and added the feature for it to directly store the transcriptions and summary to Capacities as well! 📝

Is this extension free? Yes, the extension is free to use. You can download it from the Chrome Web Store.

User reviews

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Pros

Works as expected for many users
Timely communication and support from the developer
Provides rich summaries for YouTube videos
Saves time and effort for users
Good concept and potential for future enhancements

Cons

Does not save generated transcripts to Capacities
Opens ChatGPT without passing the transcript
Inconsistent functionality and reliability
Some users experienced issues after recent updates
Short summaries may not meet all users' needs

Most mentioned

Issues with saving to Capacities
ChatGPT window opens but doesn't work properly
Developer is responsive and fixes issues in a timely manner

User reviews

I'll second what Geoff said. I saw the negative reviews but saw Geoff's positive one, so I gave the extension a try. All I'll say is the extension works exactly as expected and is a very nice resource. Thank you to the developer for building this.

Bruce Tuten, 2025-01-11

I've recently begun my Capacities.io adventure and was learning how to use the tools that were built for it. I was excited to try the YouTube summarizer here but did see some of the negative reviews. I tried it anyways and experienced something similar. It seemed something in the ChatGPT API had changed since the dev originally built it. So I pinged the dev and told him what was going on for me. He replied the next day and 4 days later he had a fix in place. I encourage everyone else who tried this and was disappointed to give it another chance and consider revising your review if it is now working as expected. I appreciate the young developer for his timely communication and ability to resolve the issues. And now I am getting very rich summary text for the YouTube videos I save to Capacities using this. I'm very pleased!

Geoff McNeely, 2024-11-18

No longer saves the generated transcript. Clicking "save to capacities" or "save HTML" will generate a clean transcript but the results are not saved anywhere. This used to work, but something broke it.