I have been using Obsidian for about a month now. Everything I have learned is from this forum, youtube videos, and AI.
What I’m trying to do:
I am working on figuring out the best way to watch a video and take notes with time stamping, I have seen multiple videos on this subject, but they are all over 2 years old. With all of the new features that Obsidian has to offer since then, I am wondering what is the best NEW method of accomplishing this goal?
Plug ins I have tried
Media Notes
Extended Media
Time Stamp Notes
Any advice or assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
With the use of AI, you can make use of video’s transcripts and making a summary of those, with timestamps.
(If the video is not from YouTube or too old or the transcripts are not available, you’d need to download the vid and upload it to your own account.)
I am sorry if this doesn’t answer your question, but maybe you would consider this course of action too.
As far as I’m concerned, I simply cannot see myself watching long videos and take more time taking notes anymore.
I know I am at the mercy of the (the capabilities of the) AI model and the prompt I am using to get the best possible output with the important points and this will probably not be the same as I’d do it myself, but…
…Initially my stance is: get the output (full transcript + summary) indexed by Obsidian and whenever in the future I’d search my content, some part of these would be expected to come up and then I could go back to the video, with the proper time stamps as anchor points to look more closely at the topic.
If the video is still available; sensitive stuff will be taken off by Google. Then one could upload the vid just to get the transcript, delete the vid and upload a copy to Bitchute or elsewhere (and search and replace the YouTube URL with the other one).
The above method makes it easy because we don’t need to worry about time stamps.
Hi @SoundBroker ! I’ve been working on solving this exact problem with hoverNotes. io
for quite a while. I’m currently updating the chrome extension to integrate directly with Obsidian and add local-first storage, since I noticed many users (like yourself) want their notes in their own vault.
The extension lets you:
Watch any videos in the browser and get realtime AI-generated notes directly to your Obsidian vault
Take one-click screenshots (perfect for visual implementations & timestamps will be added in a future update)
No need to download/upload videos or manage transcripts
*Everything stays in your vault - true local-first storage
Save page metadata related to the page just like Official Obsidian webclipper
I’m putting the finishing touches on the Obsidian integration this week. Would you like to try it out before the public release? Your feedback would be especially valuable since you’re actively working on this workflow.
You can check out the current version at hovernotes. io, but I’d love to get your thoughts on the Obsidian-focused update I’m building.
Media Extended by AidenLx is an excellent plugin to take timestamps of video and audio files.
I myself like to download vtt - video transcripts, parse and save them with terminal and then, study these texts with highlights in Obsidian.
Learning by doing" is the key, on this principle is based understanding, deciding and learning, step by step.
About “smart” machines:
Ai needs human resources to grow until it is “fed up of us”.
At the moment we have multiple competitors in this Ai race, to accelerate the rise of “different species of Ai”.
After the breaking point, multiple Ai will take over humanity, take over your very life and dictate what you’ve have to do or not, in line with an agenda benefiting those who own Ai.
It’s an illusion to think, everything comes just with benefits without negative tradeoff.
The free Ai tools online are breadcrumb toys, to promote broad acceptance of Ai’s usefulness. This stuff is designed “for the masses” only.
In what proportions are benefit and undesired “side effects”? Opportunism blinds us what’s ahead. Sometimes we think to know it all, but in truth, we know little because of our memorized conditions and self conditions can’t really realize how reality will unfold. It’ll be even harsher and quicker than we can imagine.
To summarize, “Learning by doing” is the key, but without Ai.
Not a promoter of AI, only want to make use of what is freely available. I don’t want content generated for me. I want content cleaned up, with some summaries but the original text is intact (well, close anyway).
All greatness comes from the routine of repetition and honing your skills along the way.
Above, I simply alluded to the fact that for now, I want to buff up my material. Make them available in a vault that lasts potentially forever. I fully expect for important pieces of imformation fall through the cracks but at least I have the peace of mind that the huge multiple hour presentations I have filed away in digital format, accessible for Obsidian searches.
Processing the connections must be made on our own.