Using Zotero to take literature notes from video
Channel: Thinking in public
Date: 07/05/2021

In this video I talk about the way that I use Zotero to take literature notes from a video presentation. With the increase of video content online - especially academic content that's now being recorded by default - I've been spending some time experimenting with different approaches to extracting useful information from video.

Video remains something that's a big challenge for knowledge workers, since there's no simple way to search inside the video. The best system I've seen is on TED videos, where the audio is converted to text, and then positions in the transcript linked to timestamped parts of the video. You can search the text and jump to the corresponding point in the video.

Anyway, the point is, it's hard to get useful information from video. So this demonstration is my current solution to that problem, which I hope is useful for others.

I also talk about literature notes in this video but don't go into too much detail. I have another video on different types of notes, where you can see how the concept of literature notes fits into a continuum of other kinds of notes that are useful for knowledge work.

Here are the resources I mentioned in the episode:

http://www.zotero.org
http://www.obsidian.md