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🎯 30 Days of AI — Day 5

Have a Long Video? Let AI Turn It Into Useful Notes

One Job. One Day. Useful AI.

Have you ever saved a 45-minute YouTube video because it looked useful… and then never watched it?

Or watched a long tutorial and later realized you can't remember the important points?

We all have limited time. Sometimes the information is useful, but spending an hour watching a video just to find the 5 minutes that actually matter can be frustrating.

This is where AI can help.

What Can AI Do With a Long Video?

Depending on the tool and the video, AI can help you:

  • Summarize the main points
  • Create short notes
  • Find specific information
  • Explain complicated topics in simple language
  • Create a checklist from a tutorial
  • Turn information into questions for learning

Imagine you find a one-hour video about starting a YouTube channel.

Instead of immediately watching the whole thing, you could ask AI to help you understand the important sections first.

You might get something like:

Main points

  1. Choosing a topic
  2. Creating a channel
  3. Making your first video
  4. Basic editing
  5. Creating thumbnails
  6. Growing your audience

Now you can decide whether the full video is worth your time.

🧠 The Simple AI Prompt

You don't need a complicated prompt.

Try something like:

“Summarize this video into 10 important points. Explain the main ideas in simple language and give me a short action checklist at the end.”

Want to learn from the video?

Try:

“Turn this video into study notes. Highlight the important concepts and create 5 questions I can use to test myself.”

The better you explain what you want, the more useful the result can be.

Which AI Tool Should You Try?

There isn't one tool that is best for everyone.

What you want to do

Tool to consider

Summarize and work with information

ChatGPT

Research and summarize information

Gemini

Work with your own sources and documents

NotebookLM

Quick information and web-based research

Perplexity

The important thing is not to collect four different subscriptions.

Start with the AI tool you already use.

A Real-Life Example

Let's say you're planning to buy a new laptop.

You find a 30-minute video reviewing five laptops.

Instead of watching the entire video immediately, you could use AI to help extract the useful information:

“Compare the five laptops mentioned in this video. Focus on price, processor, RAM, storage, battery life and who each laptop is best suited for.”

Now you have a starting point for your research.

But there's an important catch.

Don't treat an AI summary as the final answer.

Prices can change. Product specifications can be updated. And AI can sometimes misunderstand what was said in a video.

For an important purchase, always check the original source and current information.

⏱️ The Real Benefit: Saving Time

For me, this is where AI becomes genuinely useful.

The goal isn't always to avoid watching videos.

Sometimes it's simply about deciding which videos deserve your time.

A 60-minute video might contain 50 minutes of useful information.

Or it might contain only 10 minutes that you actually need.

AI can help you find that out faster.

⚠️ One Thing to Remember

AI summaries are helpful, but they aren't perfect.

Be especially careful when the video is about:

Money, health, legal matters, news, or important technical information.

For these topics, use AI as a starting point, and verify important information from reliable original sources.

💰 FaydaFirst Tip

Before paying for another AI subscription, check what tools you already have access to.

You may already have an AI tool that can do most of what you need.

The smartest AI choice isn't always the most expensive one.

💡 FaydaFirst Verdict

AI can be a great time-saving research assistant when you're dealing with long videos.

Use it to find the important points, create notes and decide where to spend your time.

But remember:

AI can help you understand information faster. You still need to decide whether that information is correct.

🔜 Tomorrow on FaydaFirst

Day 6: Have a Lot to Write? Let AI Help You Get Started.

Because sometimes the hardest part of writing isn't writing…

It's figuring out how to start. 🙂

 

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