Youtube Notes

Take notes for YouTube videos or web articles

Obsidian scripts for QuickAdd

  1. A YouTube notes script
  2. A general web article script

Requires Obsidian Extensions:

  1. Dataview
  2. QuickAdd

Set up YouTube Script:

  1. Get a YouTube API key via Google Cloud tut
  2. Add the key to the macro via the settings gear icon
  3. Invoke the macro and then use the following values in your template:
  • {{value:folder}} - Root level folder of all the video notes (access via macro settings gear)
  • {{value:url}} - Video URL
  • {{value:title}} - Video title
  • {{value:channel}} - Video creator
  • {{value:fileNumber}} - Counts and increments the number of files already in the target folder

Contrib:

The code is so dead simple that you can use it as a starting point for writing custom macros for QuickAdd. MIT.

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How to Install

  1. Download the ZIP or clone the repository
  2. Open the folder as a vault in Obsidian (File → Open Vault)
  3. Obsidian will prompt you to install required plugins

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