An hour of video in ten minutes

Turn long video links and audio recordings into searchable chapter summaries, key takeaways, and notes you can query later.

For: founders and researchers who consume a lot of long-form video and audio for work

If you’re tired of spending an hour watching a webinar or listening to a podcast just to pull out ten minutes of key insights — this is for you.

Long-form video and audio — keynotes, industry webinars, competitor demos, and technical podcasts — contain valuable insights. But watching a 60-minute video just to find a 2-minute answer is inefficient. Bookmark bars and video playlists become archives of content you never have time to watch — a 60-minute webinar you’ll never fully rewatch, versus a 5-minute read of what actually mattered in it.

How the transcript becomes a note

Dori converts long video and audio links into structured, readable text. When you share a YouTube URL or drop an audio file into Dori, its background engine fetches the transcript, breaks it into logical chapters with cleaned-up text for each, and extracts core takeaways — saved to your local vault. The raw transcript itself isn’t kept; only the chaptered, cleaned-up version is.

What’s actually driving this, and what it costs

Transcript fetching and timestamp chapter generation run via Dori’s local background engine, at zero API cost. Generating executive summaries and extracting core takeaways is the part that uses your connected AI provider.

What your video note looks like

When Dori processes a YouTube video, it generates a clean Markdown note containing:

1. Chapter Breakdown: Timestamped sections ([MM:SS] Chapter Title) matching the flow of the talk, each with its own cleaned-up text.
2. Key Ideas Discussed: A synthesized section pulling out the core points across the whole video.

Questions you can ask across video transcripts

Once a video transcript is saved to your vault, you can query its contents just like any text document:

• “What did the speaker in Tuesday’s keynote say about AI model latency?”
• “Summarize the technical recommendations from the saved system design video.”
• “Find all YouTube transcripts tagged under the Market Competitors project.”
• “What pricing figures were cited in the podcast I saved yesterday?”

See Ask anything for search options.

Quick setup (one time, about two minutes)

Go further

• Want to send video links from your phone? See Capture on the go with WhatsApp.
• Need to synthesize video notes into a research paper? See Build a research brief from months of scattered notes.
• Watching local video files on disk? Learn how Keep your local folders in sync processes local video recordings automatically.