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Show HN: I wrote this to make note taking on YouTube effective

by auBavan on 9/7/20, 10:07 AM with 13 comments

  • by llagerlof on 9/8/20, 12:34 PM

    I 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.

  • by siddienahar on 9/7/20, 2:00 PM

    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.

  • by auBavan on 9/7/20, 11:20 AM

    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.

  • by blisseyGo on 9/7/20, 11:28 PM

    A FYI: On Safari, the text renders on top of the images on the website. Layout issues.