Beastnotes ▪ Take notes for online courses

Take notes and learn effectively while watching course videos on MOOC platforms, YouTube etc.
What is Beastnotes ▪ Take notes for online courses?
Beastnotes ▪ Take notes for online courses is a smart Chrome extension designed to improve your online learning experience on platforms like MOOC, YouTube, etc. It allows you to take real-time, in-context notes, effectively organize them, and study for exams using links to course webpages. Moreover, Beastnotes lets you share notes, capture meeting records, set goals, use a Pomodoro timer and understand how you spend your learning time. Works seamlessly with Coursera, Udemy, YouTube, Zoom, and other video conference tools.

Extension stats

Users: 3,000+
Version: 0.5.6 (Last updated: 2022-05-13)
Creation date: 2020-06-23
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • alarms
  • cookies
  • scripting
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Host permissions:
  • https://www.beastnotes.com/
  • https://*.thinkific.com/
Size: 1.98M

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Extension summary

Beastnotes is a notebook for online courses, enabling you to learn and study effectively across the web. The extension and website work together seamlessly to help you take notes while watching MOOC lecture videos and studying thereafter. As a result, you can:

Learn effectively Take in-context notes while focusing on MOOC lecture videos. No more tabbing through apps or scribbling frantically on paper. The extension is widely supported on learning websites such as Coursera, Udemy, edX, Zoom, and Youtube, live streaming sites, reference and news sites, blogs, and beyond, offering features such as Video Timestamps. In addition, you can use a Pomodoro timer, set goals, and understand how you spend your time learning.

Stay organized Use a familiar textbook hierarchy to structure notes according to your online course. The notes taken via the extension will be organized on the website where you can study them.

Study for exams Notes are linked to the course webpage you typed them on. Review these notes in context, when rewatching video lectures on, whether on Udemy, Coursera, or other learning sites. The website is designed to help you study content effectively and has features to help exam preparation.

Collaborate with classmates You can share notes directly from the extension. As importantly, you can also easily capture meeting notes when you are in a video conferences with your classmates. Beast notes works with Google Hangouts / Meet and other web-based video conference tools.

By installing the extension, you agree to our Terms of Service present in this link: https://www.beastnotes.com/#!/terms-of-service. And here is a link to our Privacy Policy - https://www.beastnotes.com/#!/privacy-policy - if you would like to learn more about it.

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User reviews

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Pros
  • Very useful application for online educators and internet users.
  • Easy and simple extension for note-taking.
  • Allows tracking of progress and storing useful notes from various sources.
  • Supports creating multiple notebooks for organization.
  • Convenient for lectures and online courses.
Cons
  • Export options for notes are lacking.
  • Some users experienced functionality issues.
Most mentioned
  • Good for taking notes during online courses.
  • Freemium model with various plans.
  • User-friendly and practical for individual studying.
Recent reviews
after I spent 6 hour making notes using this web extension, I clicked save and close the web extension, all of the notes just disappeared!!!!!!!
by Steven Liu, 2024-10-29

GOOD EXTENSION, but i would love to see options to export my notes (example: to obsidian)
by Sami Bouakel, 2024-04-06

it doesn't work
by Doja Style, 2022-02-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Beastnotes ▪ Take notes for online courses requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Beastnotes ▪ Take notes for online courses has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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