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24 alternatives to TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning
Hi HN! I made this because I always forget what I'm trying to learn from YouTube. Test yourself: Can you remember the main concepts from the last (educational) video you watched? So, why not highlight and take notes on YouTube videos, just like in books? That's TubePen. Sign in, replace "youtube" with "tubepen" in your YouTube URL, and you're ready to retain more from your videos. I’d love your feedback! What do you think of my landing page? Use the 10-day free trial and see if it’s useful for you. Thanks!
TubePen is a tool that lets users highlight and take notes directly on YouTube videos to improve learning retention. By replacing "youtube" with "tubepen" in a video URL, learners can annotate educational content the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN, I watch A LOT of educational YouTube videos but wasn't forgetting a good chunk of the details because I was only really passively watching. So I made a tool that generates quiz questions/flashcards from YouTube videos, and uses spaced repetition like Anki or Duolingo to keep it in memory. Let me know if you find it cool/useful (or terrible ) or if you want to know a bit about the details!
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Free tool to take time-stamped notes on YouTube videos
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Hey HN, I've been working on this side project for the past month. It generates a step-by-step tutorial guide for YouTube videos that you can follow along without watching long videos. Best suited for tutorial videos but can work for other videos aswell. No BS. Just straight to the point. The guides are generated from pure transcript so you don't have to worry about it being AI. It's my first project as a total beginner. Something I had to do inorder to get out of tutorial hell. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or if you face any problems or bugs. I would try to fix them to the…
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Gnotes▲109You focus on learning, we'll take the notes.
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Bookmark It▲152Create awesome notes on YouTube videos
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NoteTakers.io▲116YouTube Lectures into Comprehensive Notes With Study Tools
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Death to the YouTube rabbit hole
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Notetube▲8I've been self-learning from YouTube for years—everything from coding to design to business skills. But I kept hitting the same wall: YouTube learning has no structure. Your knowledge gets scattered across random playlists, you're passively consuming content without real retention, and when you're confused, there's nobody to ask. I built Notetube to fix this by layering organizational tools with AI to create a proper learning system: Organizational layer: Build structured collections by topic/course/skill, visualize your learning progress with dashboards, create and track your…
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take notes, create flashcards while watching YouTube videos.
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2020 · tuberslab.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN community, excited to share a project that I've worked on. On EduTube you can discover 1000+ hand-selected educational YouTube videos. YouTube has a lot of really great educational content but it's hard to find the really good ones. Personally, I find that the recommendations page often falls short, and I've lost count of how many times I've struggled to select a video to watch while eating, only to end up with cold food. There are a couple of categories that are free and if someone wants to have access to everything there is a 20$ one time payment. I always appreciate feedback if…
2023 · edutube.app · its alternatives →
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Never take boring notes again. Youtube summaries, automated.
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SafeTube 2.0 ▲15Turn any Youtube video into an Interactive lesson!
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