YouTube, Vimeo, educational platforms, conference recordings, or any website with videos. One tool for all your video learning.
Notes saved directly to your Obsidian vault. Your knowledge stays on your machine, private and accessible forever.
Get automated summaries and key points as you watch. AI works even without transcripts on any platform.
Capture screenshots with automatic timestamps. Perfect for diagrams, code, and visual content that needs review.
Go to any website with videos. HoverNotes works universally across:
Works on Any Site
YouTube, Vimeo, Educational Platforms & More
Click the HoverNotes extension icon in Chrome and select your Obsidian vault folder. All your notes will be saved directly to your vault—private, local, and yours forever.
Hover over any video on the page and click the HoverNotes button that appears. The floating note-taking interface will open next to your video.
Toggle on "AI Notes" to get automated summaries, key points, and insights as you watch. Works on any video platform, even without transcripts available.
Click the camera icon to capture screenshots from any video frame. Perfect for diagrams, code snippets, visual content, or key moments. Screenshots are saved directly to your Obsidian vault with automatic timestamps.
Type your own thoughts, questions, and insights as you watch. HoverNotes automatically captures timestamps so you can jump back to any moment later. Your notes, your way.
Open your note in Obsidian to review, organize, and connect your knowledge. All screenshots, timestamps, AI insights, and personal notes are saved in clean markdown format. Link to other notes, add tags, and build your knowledge graph.
Control playback without breaking your focus. Adjust speed, volume, skip forward or back—all from your keyboard while taking notes. Works on any video platform.
Create folders in Obsidian for different platforms or topics. Use consistent naming like "YouTube - [Topic]" or "Course - [Name]" to keep everything organized.
Connect notes from different videos on similar topics using Obsidian's [[wikilinks]]. Build a knowledge graph that spans platforms and sources.
Capture visual content liberally—diagrams, code, UI examples. Screenshots make review faster and help you remember context. Storage is cheap, knowledge is priceless.
Review your notes in Obsidian within 24 hours. Add summaries, clean up AI-generated content, and add connections while the content is fresh in your mind.
Learn from any source—YouTube tutorials, conference talks, online courses, or podcasts with video. Build a unified knowledge base across all platforms.
Document lectures, seminars, and research presentations from any platform. Capture diagrams and equations, add citations, and connect findings across your research.
Take notes on tutorials from any platform—YouTube coding videos, conference talks, internal training videos, or documentation screencasts. Capture code examples and build your reference library.
Learn continuously from webinars, training videos, and educational content across the web. Build a second brain that captures insights from every source.
Yes! HoverNotes detects HTML5 video elements, which means it works on virtually any website with videos—YouTube, Vimeo, educational platforms, conference sites, internal company portals, and more.
The same workflow applies everywhere. If you can watch a video in your browser, you can take notes with HoverNotes. Check our platform-specific guides for YouTube, Udemy, Coursera, and LinkedIn Learning for tailored tips, but the core functionality works universally.
Currently, HoverNotes is optimized for Obsidian because of its local-first storage and markdown support. However, since notes are saved as standard markdown files, you can access them with any markdown-compatible editor.
Yes! HoverNotes AI can process video content directly, even when transcripts aren't available. This means you can get AI-generated notes on any video, regardless of the platform.
Yes! The core note-taking features are completely free. AI-powered note generation is available with premium plans, but manual note-taking, screenshots, and timestamps are free forever.
Your notes are stored locally in your Obsidian vault on your machine. HoverNotes doesn't store your notes in the cloud—they're yours, private, and accessible offline forever.