# YouTube Notes for Obsidian

> YouTube Media Notes for Obsidian is a browser extension that seamlessly connects YouTube videos with your Obsidian notes. With a single click, create well-formatted notes containing video information, timestamps, and chapters directly into your notes

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-notes-for-obsidian](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-notes-for-obsidian)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-notes-for-obsidian`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** kyle.hartigan
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-06-11
- **First published:** 2025-06-08
- **Size:** 1.18 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-notes-for-obsidian/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/setswei/YouTube-Media-Notes-for-Obsidian.git](https://github.com/setswei/YouTube-Media-Notes-for-Obsidian.git)

## Description

YouTube Media Notes for Obsidian is a browser extension that seamlessly connects YouTube videos with your Obsidian notes. With a single click, create well-formatted notes containing video information, timestamps, and chapters directly in your 
Obsidian vault.

Key Features:
• Create notes from YouTube videos with a single click
• Support for multiple Obsidian vaults with customizable folder paths
• Automatic extraction of timestamps and chapters from video descriptions
• Customizable note templates with variables for URL, title, tags, and timestamps
• Dark mode support that adapts to your system preferences

Perfect for researchers, students, and content creators who want to build a knowledge base from educational YouTube content. Works with the Obsidian Media Notes plugin for a complete video note-taking solution.

## Rankings

- #58,116 — Overall
- #188 — linotes

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `*://*.youtube.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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