Chrome & Edge · nothing to install
You bought the course.
Keep the knowledge.
NoteAlong takes notes from any Udemy course while you watch — share the tab and structured, timestamped study notes land in your own workspace, not inside Udemy's player.
How do I take notes from a Udemy course?
Open the course in Chrome or Edge, share the tab with NoteAlong, and press play. NoteAlong transcribes the instructor in real time and writes structured, timestamped study notes into your own workspace — no extension, no transcript export, nothing copied out of Udemy's player. The notes you'd have written yourself, finished before the lecture is.
How it works
Three steps, no tab-switching.
01
Open your course, share the tab
The regular Udemy web player, logged in as usual. Theater mode, 1.25×, whatever you like — just keep the tab playing.
02
We listen while you watch
NoteAlong transcribes the audio as it plays — and deletes each piece of audio the moment it becomes text.
03
Notes appear, organized
Stop the capture and a structured note is waiting: titled, sectioned, filed in a folder per course.
Why this works here
Where captions can't go.
For personal study on courses you're enrolled in. NoteAlong never downloads video, never copies content out of Udemy, and never shares anything — your notes are your own understanding, in your own workspace, private to you. There's nothing to bypass: you're taking notes on your own screen.
The transcript you can't take with you
Most Udemy courses show a transcript panel — and no way to export it. Your options are the panel or the panel. NoteAlong writes notes that live outside it.
Notes trapped in the player
Udemy's note feature pins fragments to timestamps inside that one course. No workspace, no cross-course search, no way out.
Catalogs change
On subscription plans, courses can leave the catalog. What you learned shouldn't leave with them.
Why paste-a-URL tools come back empty
They ask a platform's caption API for a transcript. Udemy is a login wall — there's no public transcript to fetch. NoteAlong doesn't ask Udemy for anything: it sits in your browser, where you're already enrolled and already watching.
Real code blocks
Code-along course? The editor has proper code blocks waiting — paste snippets at the timestamped moment the instructor explained them.
Search across every course
“Which course covered flexbox?” is one shortcut, not twenty minutes of clicking through course players.
FAQ
Fair questions.
Is it allowed to take notes from a Udemy course I'm enrolled in?
Yes — taking notes on a course you're enrolled in is what enrollment is for. NoteAlong never downloads the video, never copies course files, and never shares anything. It transcribes the audio playing in your browser and keeps your notes private to you.
Udemy already shows a transcript. Why do I need this?
The panel shows it; it doesn't let you keep it. NoteAlong gives you two things Udemy doesn't: structured study notes instead of a verbatim wall, and a workspace outside the player — searchable across every course you've taken.
Does it work at 1.25× or 1.5× playback?
Yes — NoteAlong transcribes whatever the tab plays, and faster playback uses fewer of your transcription minutes. On dense, fast-talking instructors, moderate speeds keep the transcript cleanest.
What happens if a subscription course leaves the catalog?
Your notes don't. They live in your NoteAlong workspace, independent of any catalog, subscription, or platform decision. That's rather the point.
It's a code-along course — does NoteAlong capture the code on screen?
NoteAlong listens; it doesn't watch the screen. Spoken explanations land in your notes with timestamps, so you can jump back to the exact moment and copy the snippet yourself. The editor has proper code blocks waiting.
Do I need to install an extension?
No. Nothing to install, no permissions inside Udemy. Chrome or Edge shares the tab natively; NoteAlong does the rest from its own tab.
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