You remember someone said the thing — you just can't find where. So you scrub: drag the playhead, overshoot, rewind, repeat. For a long video it's maddening. The fix is to stop searching the timeline and start asking the video.
Grounded answers beat a generic chatbot
A general chatbot guesses. Grounded Q&A answers from the video's actual transcript and cites the timestamp — so you get what was really said, and you can jump straight there to verify it.
How it works
- Paste the YouTube link
- Ask in plain English — “what did they say about X?”
- Get an answer grounded in the transcript, with the timestamp
Great questions to ask a video
- “What's the main argument?” — the thesis in one line
- “Where do they explain X?” — jump to the exact part
- “What did they recommend?” — pull out the action items
Follow-ups work too — it's a conversation, not a single query. Keep asking until you've found what you came for, then use the timestamp to watch just that moment.