NoteHeist – Capture Video Frame, Extract Text & Bookmark Video in Notes

NoteHeist is a smart note-taking companion which is capable of extracting text and code from videos using Video OCR, allowing users to sketch diagrams, bookmark timestamps, clip web content, and which also syncs smoothly in real time between the Web and VS Code. No matter if you're watching online lectures, taking part in study courses, following tutorials or researching documentation, NoteHeist makes sure that your notes, captured frames and sketches are kept in order without interrupting your workflow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 1-Click Video OCR & Text Extraction • Take the text, quotations, code, and terminal commands directly from the video frames, lecture slides, and presentations. • You no longer need to type it manually—just copy both the text and the formatting into your notes. ⚡ Real-Time Cross-Platform Sync Your browser extension, your web workspace, and the VS Code extension all sync in real time. You can clip the text you've selected or reach your notes at once by using Quick Note (Ctrl + Alt + Space). 🎨 Drawing & Visual Canvas Make sketch diagrams, mind maps, flowcharts, and other quick ideas as you are watching videos or when you are taking notes. • You can take visual notes without having to switch between various platforms. 🔖 Interactive Video Bookmarks & Timestamps You can save video bookmarks with a timestamp directly in your notes. You can go directly to that precise moment in the video by selecting any of the saved bookmarks. 📸 1-Click Video Frame Snapshots Take high-resolution screenshots of the slides, diagrams, and video frames and insert them directly into your notes. 🌐 Precision Web Clipper — Only save what is necessary; instead of saving entire pages full of irrelevant content, highlight specific paragraphs, snippets, or explanations. 📝 Clean Block & Markdown Notes • A clean block editor that supports rich text, headers, checklists, callouts, and code blocks with syntax highlighting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Ctrl + B (Mac: Cmd + B) → Open / Close NoteHeist Side Panel • Ctrl + Alt + Space → Quick Note & Instant Clip ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 HOW TO USE NOTEHEIST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. First, install the NoteHeist extension and then fix it to your toolbar. 2. Select one video (for example, from YouTube, Coursera, or Udemy) or open a web page. 3. Press the Ctrl and B keys at the same time (or click on the NoteHeist icon) to open the side panel. 4. Use OCR to extract the text, mark the key time stamps, or make some notes. You can access your synchronized notes at any time via NoteHeist Web or within VS Code!