Chrome & Edge · nothing to install
If it plays,
you can learn from it.
NoteAlong turns any video playing in your browser into structured study notes — webinars, conference talks, course platforms, screen recordings. No captions required, because it doesn't read captions. It listens.
How do I convert a video into notes with AI?
Play the video in a Chrome or Edge tab and share the tab with NoteAlong. It listens to the tab's audio — no captions, transcripts, or downloads needed — transcribes in real time, and writes organized, timestamped notes while you watch. Webinars, course platforms, conference talks, recorded classes: if it plays audio in a tab, it works.
How it works
Three steps, no tab-switching.
01
Share the tab it's playing in
Whatever the player, wherever it lives — if it's a browser tab with audio, it qualifies.
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 your folders.
What you get
Notes are the beginning, not the end.
Live webinars
No replay, no transcript, no second chance — capture it the first time, while it happens.
Paid course platforms
Udemy, Coursera, Maven — login walls mean there's no public transcript for paste-a-URL tools to fetch. Your browser is already inside.
Bootcamp recordings
Cohort lectures behind a login, gone when the cohort ends. The notes don't have to be.
Internal training
Company LMS videos that never had captions to begin with. NoteAlong doesn't need them.
Conference talks
Vimeo embeds, Twitch VODs, event platforms with a player and nothing else. If you can press play, you can take notes.
Why “any video” is literally true
Most video-to-notes tools are transcript fetchers: they ask the platform's caption API, and if there's nothing to fetch, they shrug. NoteAlong captures the audio your own tab is playing. There's no API to ask and nothing to fetch.
The honest part
The honest boundaries: Chrome and Edge only. Audio is required — a silent screencast has nothing to transcribe. The tab must keep playing during capture. DRM-protected streaming services are out of scope on purpose: NoteAlong is for learning content, not entertainment.
FAQ
Fair questions.
What video sources does it work with?
Anything that plays with audio in a Chrome or Edge tab: YouTube, Udemy, Coursera, webinar platforms, bootcamp portals, internal training sites, conference streams, Vimeo, Twitch. NoteAlong listens to the tab, so the list is really “the internet”.
Do you download or store the video?
Never. NoteAlong doesn't touch the video at all — it transcribes the audio your tab plays, in short chunks, and deletes each chunk the instant it becomes text. What remains is the transcript and your note.
Does it work on live video, not just recordings?
Yes. Live webinars and streams are exactly where transcript-fetching tools fail, because there's no transcript yet. NoteAlong writes the notes while the live event happens.
What about Netflix or other streaming services?
Out of scope, on purpose. NoteAlong is built for learning — courses, lectures, talks, training. DRM-protected entertainment isn't what it's for, and we don't pretend otherwise.
Does the video have to be in English?
No. The speech engine understands roughly 100 languages. Generated notes read best in English today; more note languages are on the roadmap.
Is this allowed?
Taking personal notes on video you have access to is what note-taking is. NoteAlong never downloads video, never copies content out of any platform, and never shares anything — it transcribes the audio your own tab plays and keeps your notes private to you.