Notes from the maker, with product updates, reverse-engineering YouTube's internals, and the occasional opinion about playlist management.
YouTube only lets you remove likes one video at a time. Here is how to clear your Liked videos in bulk, or remove likes by channel, topic or length while keeping the rest.
YouTube has no search box for your Liked videos, and scrolling back years is slow. Here is how to search your likes by title, channel or tag, and sort them to find your oldest l...
YouTube has no export button for Watch Later, Liked videos or your playlists. Here is how to save any of them as a CSV or JSON file with titles, channels and links, as a backup ...
NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook) takes YouTube links one at a time and cannot open a playlist, Watch Later or your Liked videos. Here is how to send a whole list, or just the pa...
YouTube leaves deleted, private, and region-blocked videos sitting in your Watch Later as unplayable placeholders. Here's why they're there, why YouTube won't remove them, and t...
YouTube's built-in Watch Later organization is limited to a handful of sort options. Here's the full landscape of what you can actually do, from YouTube's native features to thi...
TidyWL just earned the Featured editorial badge from Google on the Chrome Web Store, alongside its existing verified publisher checkmark. Here is what each signal actually means.
YouTube has no built-in search inside the Watch Later playlist. Here are three ways to find a specific video without scrolling through thousands of entries.
Videos not saving to Watch Later? The sneakiest cause is a 5,000-video limit YouTube never warns you about. All six causes, how to spot yours, and each fix.
The 5,000 video cap on YouTube Watch Later isn't a bug. It's by design. Here's what causes it, why YouTube hasn't removed it, and four ways to get your playlist under control.