How do you decide a YouTube video is worth your time before you even watch it?
Confession time. For years my "Watch Later" was just a graveyard.
200+ videos bookmarked with good intentions, basically none of them ever opened.
The thing is, the problem isn't quality. There's tons of great stuff on YouTube.
The problem is that a 90 minute podcast gives you zero way to know if the one insight you actually need is at minute 4 or minute 74.
That's basically the itch behind EnBref. Idea was simple: before you commit 90 minutes, see the gist in 30 seconds.
And if it looks worth it, you can ask the video questions instead of scrubbing the timeline like a maniac.
What threw me off the most: people don't really use it to watch less. They watch better.
Skim 10 videos, then give actual attention to the 2 that deserve it.
I'd genuinely love this community's take on one thing.
When you open YouTube to learn something specific, what's your actual system for filtering the noise?
Chapters, comments, 2x speed, transcripts, something smarter?
Half hoping I'm solving a real shared problem, half scared I just built a fix for my own bad habits ;)

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