Overview
Most Indian lectures on YouTube have only automatic captions, usually in Hindi or Telugu, and a one-shot can run three hours or more. Lecture Link reads the whole lecture and writes clean notes in English — technical terms, formulas and the teacher's own tricks included — with every point linked to the moment it was said. Tap a time and the video jumps there.
Adding a lecture
- Copy the lecture's link from YouTube (a normal link, a youtu.be link or a Shorts link all work).
- In My Library, open the YouTube tab, paste it, and press Get notes.
If another student has already added the same lecture, its notes are ready instantly. Live streams can be added once they have finished.
While it is read
A long lecture takes a minute or two to read. You don't have to wait: the video plays straight away, the panel beside it shows how far the reading has got (“Read up to 1:20:00 of 3:12:00”), and the notes fill in as it goes. Once it is done, the lecture is matched to a chapter of your syllabus, just like an uploaded file — confirm the match so your checkpoint and quiz results count in your Learning Genome.
Watching with notes
- In this lecture — beside the video, a list of every topic with its start time. The one playing is highlighted; tap any to jump.
- Lecture notes — the full notes, topic by topic: definitions, formulas (with what each symbol means), worked examples, and the teacher's tricks and exam tips. Switch between English, हिंदी and తెలుగు; technical terms stay in English in every version.
- Transcript — the captions as YouTube heard them, with a time every 30 seconds you can tap.
- Scroll down while the video plays and it shrinks into a small player in the corner, so you can read the notes and keep watching.
Checkpoints
About every ten minutes the video pauses for two quick questions on what was just taught. Answer, press Check, read why, and carry on. Get one wrong and Replay that bit takes you back to the moment it was explained. Checkpoints only appear when you watch into them, never when you skip ahead, and Checkpoints off under the video turns them off.
Your answers are saved to your Error Book, and to your Learning Genome once the lecture's chapter is confirmed.
Pause and ask
Pause the video and open Ask your material. Your question is about where you are: the two minutes either side of the pause are always read, alongside the notes. Try “I didn't get what was just explained”. Answers link to the moments they used — tap one to replay it.
The rest of the kit
Flashcards, a quiz, audio, a mind map, a study guide, the syllabus check and a Notes Prep Studio notebook all work exactly as in My Library, built from the lecture's notes. Anything that cites the lecture shows a time — ▶ 12:34 — that plays from there. In Notes Prep Studio, blocks from a lecture carry a Lecture chip.
When YouTube won't share captions
Sometimes YouTube doesn't let us read a video's captions. You'll be asked to paste them instead — it takes ten seconds:
- Open the video on YouTube.
- Below the video, tap …more, then Show transcript.
- Select the whole transcript, copy it, and paste it into the box — keep the times.
A transcript you paste stays private to you; it is never shared with other students.
Long lectures
Lectures longer than four hours are added in four-hour parts (“part 1 of 3”). A link with a time in it (?t=…) opens the part that contains that time.
Privacy and limits
- Your lecture list, notes, answers and chat are private to you. When another student adds the same video, they get its notes — never your answers, your chat or anything personal.
- A lecture counts towards My Library's 12 new items a day. About 30 hours of new lecture can be read per day; lectures others already added don't count.
- Notes come from automatic captions, which mishear. Check anything surprising against the moment it cites.