Name: Viewmento - YouTube Video Highlighter
Author: Viewmento

May 31, 2026

description

Viewmento helps you remember what you view on YouTube by turning passive watching into an active, reviewable knowledge vault. The ultimate Readwise for video.

You are watching a masterclass, a deep-dive podcast, or a coding tutorial. Usually, saving a brilliant insight means pausing the video, switching tabs, and breaking your focus—and even then, those notes usually sit in a folder, never to be read again.

Viewmento changes that. It is the ultimate frictionless video highlighter and recall tool, built natively for YouTube.

Here’s what you can do:

🟣 Capture the moment – Click the highlight ring or hold the 'B' key to seamlessly save the exact insight you just heard, without ever hitting pause.
🟣 Auto-extract transcripts – Viewmento automatically pulls the spoken text from that specific timestamp so you don't have to type a single word.
🟣 Review and retain – Highlighting is just the start. Use built-in recall mechanics to actually remember and internalize the concepts you save.
🟣 Build your streak – Turn learning into a habit. Track your daily progress with streaks that keep you motivated to capture and review.
🟣 Jump back in – Click any saved highlight to instantly return to that exact second in the original YouTube video.

Perfect for:
Students, developers, researchers, and lifelong learners who want to turn YouTube into a searchable library of personal knowledge.

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🚀 Changelog
✦ v1.3.0 - The Organization Update [13/05/2026]
New Features

– The Relational Folder System: You can now create custom, color-coded folders to organize your insights (e.g., "Machine Learning", "Startup Advice", "React Hooks").

– Multi-Select & Bulk Actions: Introduced an "Edit Mode" with a premium floating action bar (FAB). You can now select multiple insights at once to seamlessly move them into folders or bulk-delete them.

– Frictionless Manual Review: Added a sleek Review banner that intelligently appears when your Daily Drop is ready, allowing you to trigger your Spaced Repetition queue on your own schedule without feeling spammed.

Improvements & UX

– Horizontal Folder Navigation: Built a premium, horizontally scrollable folder menu with a frosted glass sticky + New Folder button that seamlessly fades out overflowing text.

– Safe Folder Eviction: Deleting a folder no longer destroys your data. Insights are now safely caught and returned to your "All Insights" pool.

– Smart Notification Sync: Re-engineered the Chrome OS badge and notification inbox. The red warning dot will now only appear if your streak is genuinely at risk.

𖢥 Bug Fixes

– Fixed a Manifest V3 background script bug where the Daily Drop wouldn't trigger if Chrome was opened from a suspended state.

– Fixed an issue where clicking the notification bell would instantly close the dropdown.

v1.3.2 [19/05/2016]
– Improved transcript aggregation algorithm

v1.3.1 [14/05/2016]
– Fixed a transcript aggregation bug for the highlight ring mechanism

✦ v1.2.0 - The Cognitive Engine Update
We’ve completely rewired the brain of Viewmento to help you retain insights better and build stronger habits.

– Spaced Repetition Engine: Viewmento no longer just shuffles memories randomly. It now runs a predictive algorithm to test you on insights exactly when you're about to forget them.

– Power User Hotkeys: Fly through your Daily Drop without touching your mouse. Press Space to reveal, and 1, 2, or 3 to grade your memory.

– Notification Inbox: Added a sleek, native notification center right inside the popup to track your milestones and streak statuses.

– Streak Protection: Viewmento will now gently nudge you with a subtle icon badge and a contextual warning banner if it's getting late and your daily streak is on the line.

– 'Hard Mode' Reviews: Mastered everything in your queue? The engine now rewards you with masked "Bonus Reviews" so your streak never has to die just because you finished studying.

– Engine Polish: Overhauled the background systems to ensure streaks strictly follow actual calendar days and eliminated redundant review tabs.

✦ v1.1.0 - The Premium Polish Update
We just deployed a massive UI/UX overhaul to make Viewmento feel natively built into YouTube.

– Frictionless Onboarding: A new, seamless intro that teaches you exactly how to capture insights the second you open a video.

– SaaS-Grade Dashboard: Completely redesigned the extension popup, featuring custom SVGs and optical centering for a clean, distraction-free reading experience.

– Butter-Smooth Captures: Rewrote the capture engine. The progress ring now runs flawlessly and stays perfectly visible even if YouTube's controls fade out.

– Smart Notifications: Toasts now stack cleanly on the side of your screen without overlapping.

✦ v1.0.0 - Initial Release

– Seamless video highlighting via the 'B' key or floating ring.

– Auto-extraction of YouTube transcripts.

– Basic capture and replay mechanics.

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Terms & Conditions: Your use of this application is governed by the Viewmento Terms of Use (http://www.viewmento.com/terms) and the Viewmento Privacy Policy (http://www.viewmento.com/privacy) and any successor versions thereto.

Viewmento helps you remember what you view on YouTube by turning passive watching into an active, reviewable knowledge vault. The ultimate Readwise for video.

You are watching a masterclass, a deep-dive podcast, or a coding tutorial. Usually, saving a brilliant insight means pausing the video, switching tabs, and breaking your focus—and even then, those notes usually sit in a folder, never to be read again.

Viewmento changes that. It is the ultimate frictionless video highlighter and recall tool, built natively for YouTube.

Here’s what you can do:

🟣 Capture the moment – Click the highlight ring or hold the 'B' key to seamlessly save the exact insight you just heard, without ever hitting pause.
🟣 Auto-extract transcripts – Viewmento automatically pulls the spoken text from that specific timestamp so you don't have to type a single word.
🟣 Review and retain – Highlighting is just the start. Use built-in recall mechanics to actually remember and internalize the concepts you save.
🟣 Build your streak – Turn learning into a habit. Track your daily progress with streaks that keep you motivated to capture and review.
🟣 Jump back in – Click any saved highlight to instantly return to that exact second in the original YouTube video.

Perfect for:
Students, developers, researchers, and lifelong learners who want to turn YouTube into a searchable library of personal knowledge.

_________________________________________________________________

🚀 Changelog
✦ v1.4.0 - The First Impression Update [27/05/2026]
We’ve completely overhauled the Viewmento installation experience to get you capturing insights the second you add the tool to Chrome, wrapped in a breathtaking new design.

– Cinematic Onboarding Sandbox: We eliminated the blank screen. Upon installation, you are instantly dropped into a high-fidelity, interactive training environment to capture your first visual memory before you even open YouTube.

– Full-Tab Dashboard: Your Review Dashboard is now completely responsive. Opening your memory vault in a dedicated browser tab finally feels like a rich desktop application instead of a squished popup window.

– The Cold-Install Fix: We rewired our background listeners and secured our telemetry pipeline, ensuring the core engine runs flawlessly from the exact millisecond the extension is installed.

✦ v1.3.0 - The Organization Update [13/05/2026]
New Features