Built for your second brain

One video in — knowledge everywhere. TLDW feeds your second brain: clean notes in the apps you think in, and skills your AI agent can actually use.

YOUR NOTES

Obsidian

Notion

Markdown

YOUR AGENT

Claude

Codex

Cursor

Turn tutorials into agent skills

Watching a tutorial to teach your agent a workflow? TLDW extracts the reusable procedure and writes it as a real, valid agent file — then installs it for you.

Claude Skill

SKILL.md

One-click install to ~/.claude/skills — ready for Claude to use.

Codex Skill

SKILL.md

Installs to ~/.agents/skills — plus AGENTS.md for any agent.

Cursor rule

.mdc

A .cursor/rules file generated straight into your project.

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System prompt

prompt.md

A clean, reusable prompt for any AI assistant.

Everything happens on your Mac

On-device transcription

whisper.cpp runs on your Mac with Metal acceleration — your audio never leaves your machine.

Goes where you work

One-click into Obsidian, Notion & Markdown — or installed straight to Claude, Codex & Cursor.

~1,800 sites — or any file

Paste a YouTube, X, or TikTok link, or drop in your own video or audio file.

Bring any AI

Local Ollama with no key, or your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or OpenRouter key — tested in-app.

Pro

Notes + skill in one run

Turn one video into a note for your brain and a skill for your agent, together.

Free

Auto-tagged library

AI tags every note and skill from your own vocabulary, so your library stays searchable.

Pro

Batch processing

Queue a whole list of links or files and transcribe them unattended.

A searchable library

Every note and skill is saved and browsable — reopen, re-export, or re-install anytime.

Mac app — or one command in your terminal

paste this in terminal, or download the Mac app

zsh — tldw

$tldw "https://youtu.be/…"→ a Markdown note

$tldw lecture.mp4 --skill claude→ a Claude SKILL.md

$tldw "…" --notes --skill claude→ both, in one run

$tldw talk.mp3 --provider ollama→ fully offline

The same 100% local engine as the app. Progress streams to stderr, file paths to stdout — so it pipes and scripts cleanly. macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon.

How it works

1 · Drop in a video

Paste a link or drop a file — transcribed locally on your Mac.

2 · Pick what you need

Notes for your second brain, a skill for your AI agent — or both at once.

3 · Send it where it lives

Obsidian, Notion, Markdown — or installed to Claude, Codex & Cursor.

Free to start. Pro to go further.

Free

$0

Everything you need for one-off notes — forever.

check_circleUnlimited single transcriptions
check_circle100% local — Whisper runs on your Mac
check_circleAny AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, or local Ollama
check_circleCreate agent skills — Claude, Codex, Cursor & more
check_circleOne-click export to Obsidian & Notion
check_circleAI-tagged, searchable library
check_circleMac app or the tldw CLI

Download for Mac

Pro

$4.99one-time

For power users who do this at scale. Yours forever.

check_circleEverything in Free
check_circleNotes + skill from one video, in a single run
check_circleBatch processing — queue whole lists of links & files
check_circleCustom & editable summary styles
check_circleLicense works on up to 5 Macs
check_circleAll future updates

Get TLDW Pro — $4.99

Start feeding your second brain.

Free for everyday use. Pro is a one-time $4.99.

Download Free for Mac