Show HN: I wrote this to make note taking on YouTube effective
tuberslab.comI am trying it and looks fantastic.
But the UX needs improvement. I tested just the offline version using Firefox. This is what could be improved:
- When I reload the video, all my notes were lost. The notes should be persistent with autosave feature (web storage or indexed db).
- The youtube UI is already cluttered. Why bother to hide the editor buttons? The buttons should be always visible.
- The copy to clipboard doesn't work for me (Firefox issue, maybe?).
- The Save button down't give me any feedback. What it means? After I clicked it I realoaded the page, but just part of my notes was retrieved. Mostly was lost.
- What is summary write mode? I tried to write something, save, switch to note taking mode and returned to summary. Just a blank summary.
- The topic is about the full note, I presume. If yes, maybe it's better to change the label to note title or description?
- When the user start taking notes, the video should stay paused until manual play (When text lost focus? shortcut? A second ENTER?). Enable autoplay inside options.
- Add a shortcut to allow the user start typing insted of clicking on the text editor.
And the hard features to implement:
- Allow to export notes into a file, with the images for printing.
- Allow to save the notes into a json, with images, to allow reloading offline notes.
Thanks for this amazing application.
Thank you so so much for the feedback.
1) Yes I don’t save the notes locally. Never thought of this offline scenario. Will implement soon.
2) That makes sense. I thought hiding the buttons could reduce the distraction while watching videos. But, as you mentioned, youtube ui is already a busy place. no point. Will do.
3) I’ll test and fix it tomorrow if it is replicable.
4) Partly retrieved? Thats worrying. May be there could be a bug with refreshing. I’ll test it. I’ll add a feedback on save button as well.
5) Summary pad is something I use to compose a complete picture of the video from notes taken. Summary going away is worrying, I’ll double check.
6) Topic is like a folder. I normally watch multiple videos on a topic. So, I tag them with same topic and then I can filter them by topic on my phone.
7) Ok. I’ll introduce enable/disable autoplay option in settings.
8) Short cut to focus is a fantastic idea.
9) That would be fantastic. I’ll see how I can do it.
10) I am not sure If I can get that much space from extensions. Offline support is going to be tough. But will try.
I can’t thank you enough for the feedback and encouraging words. I’ll update once everything is fixed. Have a fantastic day.
Hi, I managed to fix some of the stuff.
I still could not do offline support. However, I have introduced pdf download for local print. ( It still hits the server to generate pdf though)
Introduced shortcuts for focusing ( alt+shift+f) and hiding ( alt+shift+h) notepad.
Auto play can be disabled via settings. And buttons can be made always visible via setting too.
Thanks for your feedback and support. Have a great weekend.
Hey, interesting product and good work with the launch too. But I'm not able to register and getting "SignIn Failed".
Also, you may also want to check https://lanes.io/ -- It gives similar capability.
Ok, so I registered via website and then tried logging to the extension and it worked. When I tried registering through the extension, I was getting above mentioned error.
oh.. I’ll look into that asap.
I just tried to replicate myself. It seems working fine on chrome and firefox on a mac. May I know on what you were trying registering?
A quick feedback. It'd be great if you could help with the keyboard shortcuts right in notes section (the ones which you showed in the demo video). Will help a lot!
Thank you for you good wordsZ And good idea about specifying shortcuts somewhere. I have not heard about lanes.io. It looks like a huge project. Mine is simple and small. :) Thank you so much taking time to try this anyway.
I would love to receive some feedback on this if someone had some time. I completed MVP in a month, but polishing it took about 4 months( after hours and weekends). Still not finished though. I am planning to add more Note apps integrations as they open their APIs. Thank you.
A FYI: On Safari, the text renders on top of the images on the website. Layout issues.
oops. How embarrassing. I own & develop on a mac. But, still ignored Safari. :( Will fix it during lunch break. Thanks for spotting.
I fixed it. Thanks again for spotting it.