We Built Video Notes Because We Needed It Ourselves
Video Notes didn’t start as a product. It started as a frustration and a simple question: why is it so hard to hold on to what you learn from video?
We Were Drowning in Great Content and Forgetting the Important details
Watching hundreds of videos, retaining very little
Hours of technical content (deep dives, conference talks, expert breakdowns) and weeks later you can barely recall the key points, let alone the details that actually matter.
Complex tutorials with steps you keep missing
Multi-step workflows where one missed setting means starting over. You pause, rewind, re-watch the same 30 seconds five times and still aren’t sure you caught everything.
Hour-long podcasts with no way to preview them
Is this 90-minute interview worth your time? There’s no table of contents, no summary, no way to know before you commit, so you either gamble the time or skip it entirely.
We weren’t casual viewers. We were watching to learn, and the tools we had weren’t designed to help us actually retain what we watched.
From Internal Tool to Product
Video Notes started the way a lot of tools do: we built it for ourselves. After one too many evenings rewatching the same tutorial for the third time, trying to find a single setting buried 23 minutes in, we decided to fix the problem.
The first version was rough. A script that pulled transcripts, ran them through AI, and spit out structured notes. But even that ugly prototype changed everything. Suddenly we could search across videos, skim before committing to a long podcast, and actually follow along with complex tutorials without hitting rewind every ten seconds.
We started sharing it with friends and colleagues. The response was immediate: “I’ve needed this for years.” That’s when we knew this wasn’t just our problem. It was a gap that millions of video learners were quietly working around every day.
So we turned it into a real product. We rebuilt it from the ground up with better AI, a cleaner interface, and deeper analysis, and opened it to everyone. Today, Video Notes helps people turn the videos they watch into knowledge they actually keep.
Your Notes Are Yours
We built Video Notes because we needed better tools for learning from video. But we also built it with a belief: your information belongs to you.
Every note, transcript, summary, and analysis you create in Video Notes can be exported as Text, PDF, or Markdown. Take them to Notion. Put them in Obsidian. Paste them into a Google Doc. We don’t believe in locking your knowledge inside our platform. The value of Video Notes is in the extraction and analysis, not in holding your data hostage.
Video Notes at a Glance
- Founded
- 2025
- Product
- Web-based AI tool that converts YouTube videos into structured, searchable notes, with a Chrome Extension for direct YouTube extraction and export to Text, PDF, and Markdown
- Users
- 200+ early access users
- Languages Supported
- Video Notes extracts every available transcript language for each video, so you can choose the one you prefer
- Processing Speed
- Under 60 seconds for most videos, including videos over 3 hours long
- Output
- Timestamped summaries, key takeaways, full transcript, deep analysis, and AI chat assistant
- Export Formats
- Text, PDF, and Markdown — portable to any tool including Notion, Obsidian, and Google Docs
- Chrome Extension
- Available for Chrome. Extract any YouTube video directly from the YouTube page with one click
- Pricing
- 30-day free trial (no credit card required), then $7/month on the Standard plan
- Contact
- hello@video-notes.co
Every video you watch without a system is another insight lost forever. The longer you wait, the bigger the gap between what you’ve watched and what you actually remember.
Imagine Finding That One Insight in Seconds, Six Months from Now
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