In this video I describe how I capture literature notes from video with Zotero.

With the increase of video content online – especially academic content that’s now being recorded by default – I’ve been spending some time experimenting with different approaches to extracting useful information from video.

Video remains something that’s a big challenge for knowledge workers, since there’s no simple way to search inside the video. The best system I’ve seen is on TED videos, where the audio is converted to text, and then positions in the transcript linked to timestamped parts of the video. You can search the text and jump to the corresponding point in the video.

Another option is to save the video to Reader by Readwise, where the video is automatically transcribed, allowing you to read alongside the video, and mark up the text while reading.

It’s hard to get useful information in the form of literature notes from video, and this demonstration is my current solution to that problem, which I hope is useful for others.