hey there and welcome back to an amazing video here at tactic today in this video we're going to dive into how to summarize YouTube videos and how tactic has the ability to help you transform lengthy YouTube videos into concise readable summaries in a gamechanging manner this guide is designed to walk you through each step of using tactic from generating transcripts to extracting vital insights so without further Ado let's Dive Right into how to do that and don't forget if you like this video make sure to hit that like button comment down below any of your questions about tactic And subscribe so to get things started let's start with the basics first we need a YouTube video to work with you can think of a video you've been meeting to watch but haven't had the time for tactics transcript tool is a game changer it transforms video content into text making it easier to digest and refer back to imagine if you needed to get a 30-minute YouTube video in text form and was ready at your fingertips yeah that this is what this can do so firstly you would find a video you're interested in let's say uh one of these different videos from someone that I definitely know or don't know who this is you can grab the URL from the YouTube video and the next thing you would do is to visit Tactics YouTube transcript tool and you can go there as you can see the link will be right here and you can paste it inside of that link and once the video link is put in there you can click get video transcript now once we take a moment here the transcript is is going to be generated and you'll see that right next to it is the YouTube video link that you grabbed so it goes through the entirety of the video and transcribes it and what you can do is you can copy the text you can download it and once downloading it you'll see that there is a txt feature in there so let's open this up next by going to tactic. and essentially utilizing the txt in in order to upload the transcript using our fancy upload feature once I click choose a file you'll notice that it is a supported format to have txt down below we can grab that txt file that was just given to us by our YouTube transcription tool pretty cool that we were able to transcribe a video and then upload it to the summary software so as you can see you can change the meeting title uh this could be the exact name of the YouTube video and you could also put when the video is from and then from here once we press upload you'll see that the uploaded item here has a marker that showcases that it is a text file that's uploaded and that it has one speaker so next what we can do is to explore tactics summary feature so by going in here and clicking on this uh the video shows the summary so this showcases exactly what the transcript is obviously we downloaded it and uploaded it straight to here but what we can do is utilize one of these quick prompts to write a detailed or quick summary about this so if I click on this button what's going to happen is it will write a quick summary of exactly what the video is about so moving forward here you can see how this is a video about me a productivity Enthusiast who shared his top five ways to stay productive in uh it says the meeting but obviously it's about a video and then from there you also can ask questions about the transcript so that you can follow up with any sort of information that you want to extract from it without having to really go too deep into reading the transcript watching the video or listening to it so a great example of a question could be uh let's list the five ways to stay productive because that was the video what it was about let's just make it really easy to get the answer without actually having go to watching the video so by clicking on ask it's then going to extract that information and put it down below as you can see right here as someone who did make this video I know for a fact that you can utilize multiple resource Theory develop problem solving skills Implement time blocking these are all things that I did in fact say in the video and from here we can copy save uh and do anything we really want with this text as well as delete it if we don't want to see it anymore now the next you can do is at the top you can actually search in the transcript and find any words so if we look up time blocking you'll see that there are three instances of it so with the arrows on the right or by pressing enter you can essentially tab through and find those different instances and even just by scrolling they will also be highlighted and you'll see them there so there are a multitude of different times that time blocking was set in here so we can find specific terms or phrases within the transcript and once you found valuable insights you can use the share feature to disseminate this information with peers colleagues or anyone you might find useful so you can go to the top right here as you can see and what you can do is you could share this in a multitude of different ways via Link email uh even create a Google Drive doc or share it with some other features and Integrations you can add specific emails here make it a restricted link so only users with access can view it similar to what you'd experience with Google Drive and and if you do have a team you could also add it to the team folder so that everyone could see it there as well but by copying this link and pasting it out then people would be able to see this transcript that you've done all of the great work of uploading it and then doing different work to summarize it as well with the AI feature tools that we have here at tactic so as we wrap up the guide it's pretty clear that tactic is not just a tool it's a companion for anyone looking to maximize their learning from YouTube videos by generating transcripts summarizing content and allowing for focused queries tactic empowers you to absorb information quickly and effectively now that you've seen the power of tactic and action we encourage you to try it out for yourself subscribe to our channel for more and don't forget to check us out on the Chrome Store in order to get our extension today thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one