Video Notes — Timestamped YouTube Notes

Take timestamped YouTube notes, draw on exact frames, search everything, and stay focused—free, private, no account.

Turn YouTube into a private, distraction-free notebook. Video Notes lets you capture timestamped notes and draw directly on exact video frames without leaving YouTube. Every note stays linked to the moment that created it, so you can return with one click. CAPTURE WITHOUT BREAKING YOUR FLOW • Press Alt+N (Option+N on Mac) to create a note at the current timestamp. • The video pauses while you write and resumes when you save. • Every note becomes a marker on the timeline. Hover to preview or click to return to that moment. ANNOTATE EXACT FRAMES • Press Alt+A (Option+A on Mac) to draw over the paused video. • Add arrows, shapes, highlights, text and freehand drawings. • Reopen an annotation later to return to the exact frame with the drawing in place. FIND AND ORGANIZE EVERYTHING • Search notes across every saved video. • Organize videos with reusable tags. • Open any result at its exact YouTube timestamp. • Back up and restore your complete library as JSON. SHARE OR EXPORT • Create a clean, read-only link containing a video’s notes and drawings. • Export customizable Markdown for Obsidian, Notion and other note-taking tools. • No account is required for you or the people viewing a shared page. STAY FOCUSED • Zen mode hides recommendations, comments and merchandise. • Light and dark themes automatically match YouTube. • Optional flashcards turn your own notes into review questions using your Gemini API key. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your notes, drawings, tags and settings stay in local browser storage. There is no Video Notes account, subscription, advertising or behavioral tracking. Data leaves your device only when you explicitly create a share link or enable optional flashcards with your own Gemini key. Video Notes is free. Source code is available on GitHub.