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Summarize long videos and articles

“I don't have time to watch an hour-long video or read 20 articles.”

AI can pull transcripts and text, summarize key points with timestamps or quotes, and save them to your notes. Ask for links back to the exact moment or paragraph.

Fix it yourself in 3 steps

Collect the links.
Ask for a summary per item with key points and timestamps or quotes.
Ask for common themes across all of them, then save to your notes.

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Summarize each of these [videos/articles]: [links]. For each: 5 key points, each with a timestamp or quote and link. Then list themes that appear across several of them. Mark anything you couldn't access. Stop after the summary.

Fill in the [brackets]. Each prompt says when the AI should stop, so it doesn't wander off.

Agents people used for this: Claude Code, Microsoft Scout, Claude in Chrome, n8n.

Inspired by real examples collected at agentusecases.ai.

📚 5 real stories of people doing this with AI agents

Clear leftover installers and fetch a YouTube transcript · Microsoft Scout
Summarize 20 articles into a cited document · Claude Code | Claude in Chrome
Summarize a YouTuber's latest video into a Google Doc daily · Make
Turn YouTube videos into cited research notes · Claude Code
Turn any URL into a structured Notion note · n8n

Collected at AgentUseCases.ai.

Check every citation yourself, strip student and personal names before pasting work in, and treat AI findings as leads to verify.

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