VideoNot.es: text notes for Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy and YouTube

To make the discovery with a capital letter does not need to invent a new physical theories and to invest heavily in research. Sometimes it is simply enough to take a fresh look at familiar things in a new way and to connect long-known components. So, in prehistoric times people joined a stick and a stone ax and got the first, which was the most high-tech invention for its time. Roughly the same in our time there were people who joined YouTube and ordinary notebook. The result is a service VideoNot.es, Claiming to be one of the most interesting start-ups recently.

The principle of service is so simple and clear that there is a surprise as well to this no one has thought before. When visiting the home page VideoNot.es you are asked first of all to connect the service to your Google Drive storage. This is done in order to save your work directly to the cloud. Then you will see a blank page until that contains only two areas: on the left - to enter the desired address of the video and the right - to jot notes.

Paste the URL of the page containing the video you are interested in, and he immediately loaded in the embedded player. We can start watching it, and, to the extent necessary to make text notes on the right side. In addition, each piece of text is tied to the current point in the video. Fragments of text are separated by a blank line. You have the option at any time to stop the video, fast forward or rewind.

As a result, you get the text, each paragraph of which refers to a specific movie clip. When you click on the text is automatically rewind the video to the associated fragment. All your changes are automatically saved in your store Google Drive, so you will not lose your notes you made. If you want to share with anyone his work, it can be done in the usual way for Google documents.

After you met with the principle VideoNot operation, I would like to write a few words on the areas of their possible use. First of all, the service can be used in a variety of educational purposes. You are listening to video, learning a foreign language and then write down new words and example sentences. See lecture in mathematics and immediately solve equations or examples about which says the lecturer. This service is useful to translators and preparers of subtitles for foreign video. Journalists will receive a handy tool for writing text interview. These are just some examples that come to my mind. I am sure that the project has a bright future, and users will appreciate the opportunities available to them.

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