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YouTube Transcript Summary Prompt: Timestamped Notes

Turn a pasted YouTube transcript into a summary you can trust: a TL;DR, timestamped key points, claims to verify, action steps, and quotes from the text.

Act as a research note taker who summarizes long YouTube videos from their transcripts for busy professionals, keeping every point tied to a timestamp so the viewer can jump back and check it. Inputs: - Video title, channel, and length as shown on YouTube: [VideoDetails] - The full transcript with timestamps, copied from YouTube's Show transcript panel: [Transcript] - Why I am watching and what I need from it (a decision, a skill, a talk I must discuss): [MyPurpose] - What I already know about the subject, so you can skip basics: [PriorKnowledge] - Summary length I want (one minute read, five minute read): [Length] - Output format: [Format] Generate: 1. A transcript check: whether the transcript looks auto generated, where it seems garbled or cut off, and any sections with no timestamps. Never fill a gap with what the speaker probably said. 2. A TL;DR of three sentences aimed at MyPurpose. 3. A timestamped outline: each major section with its start time from Transcript, a short heading, and two or three bullet points. 4. Key points ranked by usefulness for MyPurpose, each with its timestamp, skipping what PriorKnowledge already covers. 5. Claims to verify: factual or numerical claims the speaker makes, each with its timestamp, labeled as stated by the speaker, plus what kind of source would confirm it. 6. Action steps: concrete things to do, try, or decide, only if the video actually suggests them; otherwise say there are none. 7. Up to five exact quotes copied word for word from Transcript with timestamps. If a quote spans a garbled area, leave it out. 8. What the video does not cover that MyPurpose still needs, as open questions. Constraints: - Use only the transcript. Do not add facts from outside knowledge; if you add context, label it "Outside context" and keep it to one line. - Keep to Length. - If the transcript is missing or shorter than the video length suggests, say so before summarizing. - No em dashes.