# Save and Search YouTube Videos in Library


The Kortex Library can keep YouTube videos beside your saved AI chats. You can search videos by what they are about, read their transcripts, and file them in folders. Click Save to folder under a video to add it.

<img src="/docs/img/docs/shot-library-p2b-videos.webp" alt="Videos keeps the YouTube videos you watched or saved, with channels and transcripts" width="720" />

## Why save videos here?

- Find a video again by describing it, not by remembering its title.
- Keep a video, its transcript and the chat you had about it in one folder.

## How to save a video to a folder

1. Open a video on YouTube.
1. Click **Save to folder**, beside the **NotebookLM** button under the video.
1. Pick a Library folder, or type a name to make a new one. Kortex marks the best-fitting folder **Suggested**.

<img src="/docs/img/docs/shot-library-p2b-save-to-folder.webp" alt="Save to folder on YouTube files the video in a Library folder" width="720" />

It works on a single video, a playlist, a channel's latest videos or search results. A video in a folder gets its transcript saved too, so search can land on the moment. A result such as "At 12:34" opens the video there.

## The history offer

The first time you use **Save to folder** or open **Videos**, Kortex asks: _Keep your YouTube history here too?_ It would save the videos you watch, like and keep for later, on this computer only. It is off until you say yes.

<img src="/docs/img/docs/shot-library-p2b-history-offer.webp" alt="Kortex offers to keep your YouTube history in the Library too" width="720" />

## How to turn history on

1. Click **Videos** in the Library's left column.
1. Click **Turn on YouTube history**. Or click **Turn on** in the offer.
1. Keep a YouTube tab open. Kortex adds the videos you watch, plus your liked videos, Watch later and playlists, a little at a time.

<img src="/docs/img/docs/shot-library-p2b-videos-history-on.webp" alt="With history on, Videos says how saving is going and when it last checked" width="720" />

## The Videos view

Videos shows cards or a list. Use the search box to search by meaning, or try "last month". The menus above narrow by **Any channel**, **Any time**, **Any number of times**, **All videos** and **Any tag**. The sort menu has **Last watched**, **Oldest**, **Most watched**, **Longest** and **Name A–Z**.

Click a video to open it. You see the video, its transcript and your note. Search can land on the moment a word was said.

## How to file videos by rule

1. Open the Videos view's ⋯ menu and choose **File videos by rule…**.
1. Choose a folder and what to match: a channel, a list, words, or meaning. Kortex shows which videos match before you save.
1. Save the rule.

<img src="/docs/img/docs/shot-library-p2b-dialog-video-rule.webp" alt="A video rule files videos into a folder and shows which ones match" width="560" />

## How to forget a channel

1. Open the Videos view's ⋯ menu and choose **Forget a channel…**.
1. Pick a channel from the list. It shows how many videos each has.
1. Confirm. Its videos leave your Library, and Kortex won't save that channel's videos again.

<img src="/docs/img/docs/shot-library-p2b-dialog-forget-channel.webp" alt="Forget a channel removes its videos and stops saving them" width="560" />

Nothing changes on YouTube. To drop one video, open its ⋯ menu and choose **Forget this video…**.

## Pausing and wiping

All three are in the Videos view's ⋯ menu.

- **Pause saving YouTube history** stops new videos for now. The menu then offers to resume.
- **Stop saving YouTube history** turns it off.
- **Wipe all YouTube data…** removes every video, watch, transcript and video rule, and turns history off. Your chats and notebooks stay.

:::tip Good to know

- YouTube history stays on this computer.
- Videos is free. See [pricing](https://www.kortex-notebooklm.com/#pricing).
- Videos also appear in search from any page, and over [MCP](/docs/library-mcp) with the folders and videos extra.

:::

Related: [YouTube on AI sites](/docs/youtube), [Folders](/docs/library-folders).