Smart Notes
Write rich notes that attach to the exact moment in the video.
NEW
Timestamped notes, right inside YouTube
Capture every idea while you watch.
YouTube Notes lets you jot timestamped notes on any video, search them instantly, and turn hours of watching into knowledge you actually keep.
Free forever · No credit card · Chrome, Edge & Firefox
Loved by learners, researchers and teams
Features
Everything you need to learn from video
A focused toolkit that lives beside the player.
Powerful Search
Find any note across every video in milliseconds.
Tags & Filtering
Organize notes with tags and filter to find exactly what you need — synced to your account.
Community Notes
Publish a note to a per-video community feed and see what other viewers shared.
Cloud Sync
Your notes follow you across devices and browsers, backed by your own Google account.
Timestamp Support
Click any note to jump straight back to that second.
How it Works
Start taking notes in seconds
No setup, no learning curve — install and press play.
1
Install the extension
Add YouTube Notes to Chrome, Edge or Firefox in a single click.
2
Open any video
A notes panel appears beside the player, ready when you are.
3
Capture & revisit
Take timestamped notes and jump back to any moment anytime.
A closer look
Designed to disappear into your workflow
Clean, fast and right where you need it.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Everything else you might be wondering about.
Yes. Your notes are yours.
Google Sign-In lets us sync your notes securely.
Absolutely. Export your notes as JSON, HTML or Markdown anytime.
Yes — YouTube Notes is completely free.
Yes. Publish to the video's community feed, or export your notes to a file.
Roadmap
Where we are headed
Built in the open.
Shipped
- Timestamped notes & tags
- Community notes & profiles
- Cross-browser sync
In Progress
- Firefox Add-ons release
- More full translations
- Collaborative notes
Planned
- Mobile companion app
- Team workspaces
- Playlist-wide notes
Changelog
What's new
Every improvement we ship, in one place.
- A sync-status chip in the notes panel shows at a glance whether your notes are backed up — Saved on this device, Syncing…, or Synced just now
- A first-run tip points new users straight to where notes live
- Export moved into a tidy ⋯ More menu, and community notes are now opt-in — turn them on in Settings → Display
- A quieter Orphaned Notes recovery card, plus a fix for opening Settings from a video page on Edge
- Keep the last 3 versions of any note as you edit — and delete a single version, or clear its history, in one click
- A 250-character limit with a live counter keeps notes short and easy to scan
- Pause at each note now shows a 5-second countdown on the video and resumes on its own — read without losing your place
- Export a whole course as a polished, self-contained HTML study guide — one section per video, with every timestamp linking back into the source
- Privacy-first, fully anonymous usage stats help us spot and fix rough edges faster — never your notes, the videos you watch, or anything that could identify you
- Your notes now stay in sync across browsers — a sync that couldn't reach the cloud no longer leaves devices with different counts
- Sync now shows a live breakdown — Notes, Pins, Courses, Tags, and more, ticking off as they go
- One click now syncs everything, not just your notes
- Channel Notes — a private note per channel, synced to your account
- More that syncs across devices — video titles, Notes History density, and hidden community notes
- Notes History now opens reliably on the YouTube home page and closes when you head Home
- Steadier cross-browser sync, plus tidier Timeline density options
- Courses — group a playlist's notes and copy or export them together
- Cleaner Notes History — segmented views, a Tags menu, and density options
- See which search results already have notes
- Note tags — organize and filter, synced to your account
- Community notes, public profiles & pinned notes
- Automatic cross-browser sync
- First public release
- Timestamped notes on any YouTube video, synced to the cloud
Turn watching into learning
Install YouTube Notes and never lose a great idea again.
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