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by noahdesu 2798 days ago
I _cannot_ wait to start playing around with this. It really does seem to tick off all the boxes I've been looking for. Do you have any plans / strategy / tips for handling video? I tend to watch a lot of conference talks and lectures on YouTube, and find that I'd like to take some notes while watching. Having a single personal knowledge base handle that (or at least the notes aspect) instead of a one-off solution for other types of media would be useful to avoid fragmentation.
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> I _cannot_ wait to start playing around with this.

Love the enthusiasm!

> Do you have any plans / strategy / tips for handling video?

Yes. Working on it now.

The next revision will actually handle capturing video and we just show an embedded player now. So at LEAST you can use Polar to keep track of the videos, tag them, etc.

I'd like to make a full player including annotations too so you can keep track of the pointer in the video so you can jump to the time where the annotation/comment was kept.

Flashcards too.

With videos becoming 1 hour for a lecture having them in something like Polar is critical.

Something like this would be great for video, and I've been watching a lot of talks in video form lately.

Generally, though, I'm watching talks on iOS devices... bouncing between devices makes everything more complicated.