Gistr: YouTube Notes, Highlights & AI Learning Assistant

Make timestamped notes from YouTube—screenshots, transcript highlights, instant AI summaries. Learn smarter, remember longer.

Transform the way you learn from YouTube—build knowledge that actually sticks. Ever find yourself binging lectures, documentaries, tutorials, and interviews, only to realize your notes are a chaotic mess and your memory is on vacation? Meet Gistr, the intelligent Chrome extension that turns passive watching into active learning. Say goodbye to scattered notes and hello to a seamless workflow designed to help you learn faster, remember more, and create a powerful, personal knowledge base from every video you watch. Gistr transforms any YouTube video into structured, searchable knowledge you can actually use. 🎯 Perfect for: • Students - Turn lectures into clean, searchable notes with exact timestamps • Researchers - Extract citations with timestamps and screenshots for papers • Professionals - Build learning playlists from webinars and industry talks • Lifelong Learners - Capture insights from any educational content ⚡ Key features that save you hours: Gistr provides a suite of tools designed for deep, focused learning directly within YouTube: • Instant AI Summaries: Get the gist of any video in seconds. Perfect for previewing content or quickly recalling main ideas. • Timestamped Notes with Screenshots: Capture your thoughts at the exact moment of inspiration. Every note is automatically timestamped and paired with a visual screenshot, making it effortless to revisit the context. • Interactive Transcript Highlighting: Highlight the most important sentences directly on the video's transcript. Your highlights are saved as organized clips you can easily review and export. • Ask AI Questions: Go deeper than the summary. Ask specific questions about the video's content and get instant, accurate answers grounded in the transcript. • Seamless Side-Panel Workflow: Watch videos and take notes simultaneously in a convenient side panel. No more switching between tabs or losing your flow. • Private & Sharable: All your notes are private by default. When you're ready, you can share your insights with teammates, classmates, or friends with a simple link. 💎 Why Gistr is Different Unlike basic "YouTube summarizers" that just give you a wall of text, Gistr builds a persistent and interactive knowledge base.** Our unique workflow, combining timestamped notes, screenshots, and highlights, creates a rich, searchable library of insights that you can revisit and build upon over time. 🚀 Get Started in 60 Seconds: 1. Install Gistr and open any YouTube video 2. Use the side panel to highlight, ask AI questions, or take notes 3. Everything saves automatically to your learning notebook ✅ Trusted by 10,000+ students, researchers, and professionals ✅ 5-star rating with 50+ reviews ✅ Privacy-focused: Your notes are private by default ✅ Works on any public YouTube video (works with PDFs and articles too) Perfect for online courses, research, professional development, and any time you want to actually remember what you watch. Join thousands of students and professionals already learning smarter with Gistr. Questions? Ideas? We're here to help at - support [at] gistr.so