My YouTube “Watch Later” playlist keeps growing, and I rarely have time to watch long informational videos end-to-end. Most of the time, I just want the key ideas in a format I can skim, search, and save.
reko is a local-first tool that converts YouTube videos into clean Markdown summaries using transcripts + LLMs (Ollama by default, cloud optional). The Python app is the engine; the CLI is the main interface for automation, and I added a tiny localhost web UI to make “summarization sessions” fast (paste a link, tweak settings, get rendered Markdown; settings are cached in the browser).
Feedback is very welcome.