Introduction

Glasp is a social web highlighter that you can use to highlight key points from a web page. You can also use it to create summaries of YouTube videos.
It is a useful tool if you engage in online research or content creation. It helps you to streamline the process of extracting valuable insights from different online sources. Glasp’s ability to create YouTube video summaries using ChatGPT and Claude AI models is valuable to those who want to easily get the main points from long video content.

In this article, you shall learn about Glasp’s features for highlighting, annotating, and summarizing YouTube videos. Also, you shall learn the benefits of using these features and their impact on my learning experience.

You can install the Glasp browser extension to your web browser from its website or as an app on Play Store.

For a detailed guide on how to install Glasp, click on this link

Glasp Highlighting and Annotation feature

Glasp enables you to highlight texts from web pages and PDFs. You select the desired text, a pop-up will appear with a color palette, choose your desired color. While highlighting, you can add a text annotation by clicking the note icon within the pop-up. It is useful when you want to write down additional thoughts to the highlighted text or you want to explain the highlighted texts in your own words.
Glasp helps you organize your highlights and annotations across different web pages, to allow you to revisit them.
You can export your highlights and annotations in various formats and you can also copy your highlights to your note-taking app.
Additionally, Glasp helps you share your highlights and annotations with others on social media.

Personal Experience when using the highlighting and annotation feature

In the image below, I highlighted a key point from an article about crypto airdrops that I learned from Investopedia’s blog post. I used Glasp’s annotation ability to take down notes. The highlights helped me understand the key points of the article and the note helped describe the key takeaway in my own words.

Benefits of using Glasp annotation and highlight feature:

The benefits of using Glasp for highlighting and taking notes when reading an article are numerous. However, I listed some of them below:

• Intentional Approach to Learning: The Glasp highlighting feature improves the focus I give to the learning material. Complex topics can be boring to read and I would usually skim through the content. Glasp highlighting and annotation feature prompts me to focus on the content so I can highlight key points and give annotations to the highlights.

• Deeper grasp of the study material: After you study the material and use Glasp to organize all the highlights, you will get a deeper comprehension of the learning material because the highlights you take are usually the focus area in the learning article.

• Improved knowledge retention: When you take the highlights after reading the learning material, it will improve learning retention. Going through the highlights, you will get the main idea behind the learning material and fully understand what the learning material is all about.

• Knowledge elaboration: Annotations allow you to write what you understood from a key point in your own words which in turn will help create a deeper understanding of the subject matter.

Glasp’s YouTube videos Summaries Feature

Glasp offers the ability to generate summaries of YouTube videos through the Glasp web browser extension, ChatGPT, and Claude AI models. It presents summaries, highlighting the key points covered in the YouTube video.

Personal Experience of using the Glasp's Youtube videos Summaries Feature

In the YouTube video below, Glasp extension and AI models helped me summarize the video by telling me what to expect from the video before watching it.

Glasp gave me an overview of the video by highlighting some of the key points from the video which are:

• The video discussed strategies for participating in altcoin airdrops,

• The speaker talked about difficulties in navigating test nets,

• The speaker made a list of specific individuals to follow on Twitter

• The video contained detailed instructions that the speaker provided for each test net.

This overview gave me an edge in filtering the content that I consumed from the video. I skipped unnecessary parts and focused on the necessary parts.

Benefits of using the Glasp's YouTube Video Summary Feature

Listed below are some of the benefits of using Glasp’s YouTube video summary when learning:

• Understanding the big picture: Glasp summaries will provide you with the option to comprehend complex videos easily by giving you key take points to look out for when watching the video. The summaries give a better understanding of the YouTube video, to facilitate a deeper understanding of the video

• Targeted Listening: Knowing the key points beforehand will allow you to focus your attention on specific aspects of the video.

• Efficient Review: Even after watching the video, the summaries can serve as a tool to refresh your memory on the key takeaways.

Enhanced Learning Experience

In this section of the article, I’ll discuss the overall impact Glasp has made on my learning journey and how it has improved my learning efficiency.

• Targeted Learning: Glasp’s annotation and highlighting allow me to concentrate on crucial information, which saves me precious time. The YouTube video summaries give a grasp of the main ideas of the videos which allows me to prioritize relevant parts of the videos and leave the unnecessary parts.

• Active Engagement while Learning: Glasp’s highlighting ability forces me to actively study and concentrate on the learning material and not just passively go through the material.

• Building Confidence: While I learn and add annotations, the personal notes reflect my newfound knowledge which reinforces the confidence in the knowledge I have gained from the learning material.

• Demystifying Complexities: Glasp highlight and summary leads to further exploration of the topic. It was key for me to understand what testnets and airdrops were all about.

Conclusion

Glasp web browser extension is a useful tool for you to highlight key points of articles and PDFs in webpages. It allows you to focus on relevant information and easily retain knowledge by annotations. The YouTube video summary is also a useful tool to improve your learning experience by giving you key points of the video even before you watch it.