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by ashton314 2099 days ago
For the Emacs nerds among us, you can hack something similar together: when you start the video, also start a timer running in Emacs org-mode with `org-timer-start` (`C-c C-x 0`) You can then insert timestamped notes with `C-c C-x -`, and once you've got a timestamp note, you can hit `M-RET` to insert a new one with a new timestamp.
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That's a great tip in general, but I assume the biggest benefit here really is being able to pause, rewind and seek around while staying in sync, which would be much harder for some external timer.
Oh for sure. Though, it would not surprise me if someone has come up with some way to control video playback through Emacs.
EMMS[1] might be part of the solution

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EMMS

Thank you, I just started using org-mode today.
oh welcome to the first day of the rest of your life emacs and org-mode are an investment that will pay dividends in your productivity for the rest of your life
thanks for the tip! it's a little less user friendly though haha