video-notes
Skill74 starsChanged 9 days agoMITView on GitHub
Use when the user shares a YouTube link or lecture video and wants notes, a summary, or slides from it
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2 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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- Distinctive: line 11
Read the manifest, the transcript and the key frames.
- Distinctive: line 12
Write the note in the vault: sections that follow the video, the key slides embedded where they belong, timestamps, and a 5-line recap at …
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
/video-notes: turn any lecture or video into a note with its slides
- Gather (free, local):
python3 ~/.ecx/watch-notes/wn_gather.py <url> --label <short-name> --out-dir <vault>/notesIt downloads the video (yt-dlp), keeps only frames that change (perceptual hash), fetches the transcript, and prints a JSON manifest. - Read the manifest, the transcript and the key frames.
- Write the note in the vault: sections that follow the video, the key slides embedded where they belong, timestamps, and a 5-line recap at the top.
Uses your Claude plan for the writing, so no paid vision API is needed. Requires yt-dlp and ffmpeg.
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