Gistr: Notes, Highlights, and AI for YouTube and Web

About

With Gistr, you can turn YouTube videos and web articles into structured, searchable notes. Its floating editor sits atop your content, enabling you to capture and synthesize information as you work. All your sources, notes, highlights, and AI-generated outputs are neatly organized into threads in your Gistr workspace for future use.


🎯 Perfect for
   •  Students can create searchable, organized notes with timestamps, transcript and web highlights, and screenshots of YouTube videos.
   •  Researchers build verifiable, citation-ready references from talks, interviews, blogs, and articles.
   •  Professionals document insights from webinars, product demos, and technical articles using fast highlights, timestamped video notes, and AI help as needed.
   •  Curious minds save and link ideas from videos and articles, allowing knowledge to accumulate into a useful base over time.


🔌 Works with
YouTube videos and web articles on any Chromium‑based browser..


💎 Why Gistr is different
Gistr captures information where you work and turns it into organized threads—so timestamps, screenshots, highlights, and AI outputs stay connected to their sources and remain searchable over time.

On YouTube, you can take timestamped notes, grab video screenshots, and highlight the transcript—making visual and spoken content equally easy to revisit.

On web articles, highlight key passages and generate concise AI summaries, then keep everything together with the source in one thread in your Gistr workspace.

The result is a durable record of what you captured and why it matters, ready to extend and connect across future sessions.


▶️  YouTube features
   •  Timestamped notes linked to the exact moment you’re viewing.
   •  One-click video screenshots to capture diagrams, slides, and visual details.
   •  Interactive transcript highlighting to extract key passages for quick review.
   •  Ask AI grounded in the video’s content using the model you choose.


📰 Web articles 
   •  Text highlighting with instant AI summarization for fast comprehension.
   •  Notes and highlights organized as a thread for each source.


🤝 Works the way you do
   •  Private by default, share when ready; everything syncs to your Gistr workspace.
   •  Floating editor overlay—capture notes without switching tabs or losing your place.
   •  Per‑action AI model selection: switch models based on the task at hand.


🚀 How to use
- Install Gistr and open a YouTube video, or article.
- Click the Gistr icon to open the floating editor.
- Take timestamped notes, grab screenshots, highlight text, or chat with AI.
- Your work is saved to Gistr threads for easy retrieval and synthesis.


Join thousands of students and professionals already learning smarter with Gistr. Questions? Ideas? We're here to help at - support [at] gistr.so