Obsidian Youtube Timestamp Notes
Use Case
Hello Obsidian users! Like all of you, I love using Obsidian for taking notes. My usual workflow is a YouTube video in my browser on one side of my screen while I jot down notes in Obsidian on the other side. While Obsidian itself is a great notetaking tool, I found this setup quite lacking. When reviewing my notes, it would often take me a long time to find the section of the video the note came from and I found it annoying constantly having to switch between my browser and Obsidian.
Solution
This plugin solves this issue by allowing you to:
- Open up a YouTube player in Obsidian’s sidebar
- Insert timestamps with a hotkey
- Select timestamps to navigate to that place in the video
Usage
- Download and enable the plugin
- Set the hotkeys for opening the YouTube Player and inserting timestamps (my default is cmnd-shift-y and cmnd-y, respectively)
- Highlight a YouTube url and select either the Ribbon note icon or the Open YouTube Player hotkey
- Jot down notes and anytime you want to insert a timestamp, press the registered hotkey
- Toggle pausing/playing the video by using hotkey (my default is option space)
- Open videos at the timestamp you left off on (this is reset if plugin is disabled)
- Close the player by right-clicking the icon above the YouTube player and selecting close
Demo
ezgif.com-gif-maker.1.mov
Known Issues
- Inserting timestamps into a bulleted section does not work. Unfortunately, code-blocks cannot be in-line with text. Make sure to press enter/insert the timestamp on a new line.
Other Authors
This plugin uses the react-youtube npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-youtube.
