[fudged71]

Would you be able to pull the transcript from YouTube for editing/commenting? That would be really useful for me.

In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to RoamResearch

[benrbray]

> In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to RoamResearch

Or, an open-source alternative like Zettlr, Logseq, or Athens (coming soon): https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

In general, we shouldn't let expensive paid software like Roam leech value from plugins made by volunteers!

[ssalka]

People are going to build for the tools that have strong network effects. Those Roam clones you mention have none at the present moment.

And I don't see how a Roam Research integration would be "leeching value," especially because it will eventually be possible to build paid plugins for Roam, which opens the revenue door for devs building plugins.

[dwhly]

You can do this now using Hypothesis at docdrop.org-- just pick a youtube video and add URL.

[matiastucci]

didn't know about docdrop, I thought it was similar to Annotate.tv but I got: "Our video annotation capability works for YouTube videos that have either human or machine-generated transcripts.". That's not a requisite on Annotate.

[dwhly]

You need to choose a YT video that has a auto-generated transcript. About 80%+ videos do I think. Choose another one. Docdrop+Hypothesis only works on transcripts-- it's not a timecode video annotator.

[matiastucci]

yeah, I just tried it. It's pretty good!

[eruleman]

I've been listening to podcasts on YouTube, running RoamNER [0] on the transcript, and inputting the result into Roam.

[0] https://github.com/hmprt/RoamNER

[matiastucci]

Yeah, I have that in my backlog. I still need to take a look and see how hard it is. Thanks for the feedback!

[lysp]

That was my initial thoughts too.

Basically show the subtitles as it's going along (last 10-20 seconds), and allow a user to copy/paste text or instantly grab sentences.