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

https://www.tuberslab.com/

by auBavan • 6 years ago

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auBavan8• 6 years ago

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.

siddienahar3• 6 years ago

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.

siddienahar3• 6 years ago

Ok, so I registered via website and then tried logging to the extension and it worked. When I tried registering through the extension, I was getting above mentioned error.

auBavan8• 6 years ago

oh.. I’ll look into that asap.

siddienahar3• 6 years ago

A quick feedback. It'd be great if you could help with the keyboard shortcuts right in notes section (the ones which you showed in the demo video). Will help a lot!

auBavan8• 6 years ago

Thank you for you good wordsZ And good idea about specifying shortcuts somewhere. I have not heard about lanes.io. It looks like a huge project. Mine is simple and small. :) Thank you so much taking time to try this anyway.

blisseyGo• 6 years ago

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

auBavan8• 6 years ago

oops. How embarrassing. I own & develop on a mac. But, still ignored Safari. :( Will fix it during lunch break. Thanks for spotting.

auBavan8• 6 years ago

I fixed it. Thanks again for spotting it.

llagerlof• 6 years ago

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.

auBavan8• 6 years ago

Thank you so so much for the feedback.

1) Yes I don’t save the notes locally. Never thought of this offline scenario. Will implement soon.

2) That makes sense. I thought hiding the buttons could reduce the distraction while watching videos. But, as you mentioned, youtube ui is already a busy place. no point. Will do.

3) I’ll test and fix it tomorrow if it is replicable.

4) Partly retrieved? Thats worrying. May be there could be a bug with refreshing. I’ll test it. I’ll add a feedback on save button as well.

5) Summary pad is something I use to compose a complete picture of the video from notes taken. Summary going away is worrying, I’ll double check.

6) Topic is like a folder. I normally watch multiple videos on a topic. So, I tag them with same topic and then I can filter them by topic on my phone.

7) Ok. I’ll introduce enable/disable autoplay option in settings.

8) Short cut to focus is a fantastic idea.

9) That would be fantastic. I’ll see how I can do it.

10) I am not sure If I can get that much space from extensions. Offline support is going to be tough. But will try.

I can’t thank you enough for the feedback and encouraging words. I’ll update once everything is fixed. Have a fantastic day.

auBavan8• 6 years ago

Hi, I managed to fix some of the stuff.

I still could not do offline support. However, I have introduced pdf download for local print. ( It still hits the server to generate pdf though)

Introduced shortcuts for focusing ( alt+shift+f) and hiding ( alt+shift+h) notepad.

Auto play can be disabled via settings. And buttons can be made always visible via setting too.

Thanks for your feedback and support. Have a great weekend.

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

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