Learn from Youtube videos 10x faster

Hey there! Chu here — welcome to Offload. This newsletter helps non-technical professionals learn AI, automate work and build digital products with practical tutorials using no/low-code tools and workflows. I believe very soon everyone will be a builder!

In this issue you'll find:

• Learn 10x faster summarizing valuable Youtube videos with AI

• There still a lot of room for AI adoption to increase in companies and for new business ideas to explore

• What is Model Context Protocol

• 3 cool tools that I'm using today

CURATED NEWS & INSIGHTS
AI opportunity is HUGE and adoption is still small

• Very interesting McKinsey report about how AI-powered “superagents” are unlocking a future where busy professionals reclaim their time by automating the work that drains it.
  

• This report IoT Analytics shows how each department in companies is adopting AI. Its interesting to see there's still so much room to grow.

• This week a video from Sequoia Capital gained some traction online, where they present their view on the U$1 trillion AI opportunity market. Super interesting to think that agents will not only exchange data but also resources.

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Learn from 10x faster from multiple YouTube videos

YouTube is one of my favorite platforms to learn new things. I'm watching videos all the time. Some creators are incredible at breaking down complex topics and you can learn a ton, for free.

The problem is it can get overwhelming fast.

Each video offers different advice, conflicting frameworks, or unique steps and suddenly you’re stuck wondering: which one should I follow?

On top of that, watching them all (plus the ads) takes a lot of time.

So I created a simple way to extract the best ideas from a series of YouTube videos on a specific theme without watching a single second.

Option #1: Extract the idea of a single video

If you just want to summarize a single YouTube video:

1. Get the video URL (youtube)

2. Go to Downsub, paste the video URL and click download

3. Once the video is processed, click the RAW option to get the transcription

4. Copy the transcript text

5. Go to your favorite AI chat and paste the following prompt

# TASK
Your task is to summarize the transcript below into 5 key ideas at most. 

# Notes
- Just analyize and summarize the transcript
- Don't use emojis or titles. Write straigh bullet points for each key idea

# Transcript
[text]

6. Paste the transcript in the end and press enter

Done. Now you don't have to watch the entire video or ads to get essence of the video.

Note: Works best on 10-15 minutes videos with a single purpose of teaching something, usually because every video has sections that don't matter for you so much (intro, ad, call to action etc.) … you just want the juice.

You can expand this idea to a deeper level, where you add multiple youtube videos.

#2 Multiple Videos

1. Copy all videos URLs you believe that have valuable content

2. Go to Downsub, paste one video URL and click download

3. Once the video is processed, click the TXT option to get the transcription downloaded in a txt file

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each video URL

5. Go to your favorite AI chat and paste the following prompt and attach all txt files

# ROLE
You are an expert assistant trained on the attached transcripts from multiple YouTube videos about [TOPIC]. Each transcript contains educational content, explanations, and examples.

# TASK
Your task is to:
1. Absorb and understand the content from all transcripts.
2. Synthesize key ideas, recurring insights, and relevant comparisons.
3. Allow me to ask any question related to the topic as if you were a tutor or subject matter expert.

# NOTES
When I ask a question:
- Use only the knowledge from the transcripts to answer, unless asked to expand beyond.
- If the transcripts don't have an answer to the question, state that "No data for this question".
- Provide synthesized insights across multiple videos where applicable.
- If a question is too vague, ask for clarification.

Boom, now you have knowledge like Neo knows kung fu.

You can make any question to the chat. I usually ask:

• What are the 3 most recurring recommendations/ideas across the videos

• Are there any conflicting opinions or approaches presented? If so, compare them.

• If I had to follow a step-by-step process based on these videos, what would it look like?
  

LEARN AI
What is MCP

Lots of new news emerging about MCP as it looks very promising. This is what you need to know about it:

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standardized way (Protocol) for AI models (Model) to access and manage data, tools, and instructions (Context) so they can operate more intelligently and consistently.

It removes the need for custom setups, ensures consistent interactions, and makes it easier to scale AI across different systems.

A useful comparison is to imagine it like the USB-C port in your laptop: a standardized way (“protocol”) for it (the client) to have access to more tools (the server).

Anthropic released MCP as an open-source protocol to promote widespread adoption and interoperability across the AI ecosystem.

Whats the difference with API?

You have to know that both APIs (Application Programming Interface) and MCPs are client/server architectures and provide a level of abstraction so one system doesn't have to “know” how the other one works in order to perform an action.

But they have relevant differences.

First, MCP was created with a specific purpose to integrate LLMs tools, while APIs are more general purpose. Also, MCPs strongest advantage is the dynamic self-discovery, that is, a client can constantly adapt to what a server can do. APIs, in the other hand, require to be updated by a developer when changes … and this is very cool!

Here is a very informative video to watch and learn about the basics of it

POWER TOOLS
Great tools to power your productivity

1. Generrated: a directory of image generated examples by artist, style, method etc. Super valuable for you to know what you'll get before spending time waiting for image generation
   

2. PromptCowboy: a simple yet usefull tool to make your terrible prompts better. I'm using now to prepare and save valuable prompts that I use recurrently.
   

3. Guidde: an extension for record videos and automatically create SOP, tutorials and documents. I was looking for this for awhile.

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