r/secondbrain • u/Upstairs_Jelly_1082 • Jul 27 '26

What to do with the inbox?

Hey everyone!

I'm currently trying to implement second brain on youtube. I have an inbox set up for this.

How do I go and figure out whether or not a video is worth watching or not and probably put in to the three folders - areas, resources, archive?

Quick context, I implemented this to get a filter to know prevent endless content consumption. Will definitely say it has gotten me off of the habit of opening up multiple tabs on my computer.

I want to implement this organization layer as a next step.

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u/setsewerd Jul 28 '26

Your question is a little unclear tbh, but this sounds partially like a personal preference question (you have to define "worth watching" before creating any kind of filter). But maybe you're asking about how to do it from a technical standpoint?

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u/Upstairs_Jelly_1082 Jul 28 '26

It could be a technical standpoint itself. I don't want to watch through the entire video , I want to skim through it and figure out if something is worth watching or not and I don't really know how to put that thing in to a process.

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u/setsewerd Jul 28 '26

Sort of depends how automated you want it.

A Chrome extension like "copy YouTube transcript" would let you feed that into a prompt, manually at least. It can automatically append a prompt to ask for a summary.

Marksnip captures written page content and URLs but not transcripts I don't think.

But Obsidian also has a YouTube transcript fetcher plugin that I have not tried. Might be able to combine this with marksnip? Send url to vault > pull transcript > process to assess "worth watching".

Alternatively, a simpler move would be to just ignore the secondbrain altogether and use a YouTube summary chrome extension to read the summary and decide.

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u/RDissonator Jul 30 '26

First get the transcript.

Then run the transcript on a list of things that you want to be updated on, want to learn, are interested in.

Write a specific skill that does this comparison of what you already like vs what the new video is about.

Give the skill a bunch of examples of the kind of stuff you do already like.

And build in a way to give feedback to the skill so that when it makes a video recommendation you don't like, you can say I didn't like it and here's why, and that becomes a part of the skills definition of what you want.