YouTube to Anki, with the timestamp still attached.
ClipMark doesn't compete with your deck — it feeds it. Save moments while you watch, then export them as an Anki-importable file where every card's back links straight to the second it came from.
Anki can't hold a moment. That's the gap.
Anki is excellent at scheduling text, images, and audio you have already prepared. What it cannot do is bookmark the 41st minute of a lecture and replay it when you get the card wrong. So people either retype the point by hand and lose the source, or paste a bare URL and lose the timestamp. Both are worse than the explanation they came from.
ClipMark handles the capture end — the part that has to happen while the video is playing — and hands the result to Anki in the format Anki already imports. You keep your deck, your scheduler, your add-ons, and whatever review habits you have built up. Nothing has to move.
How to get your clips into Anki
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Save moments as you watch
Alt+B captures the timestamp silently. Add a note in the side panel, or let the on-device AI draft one from the transcript around that second.
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Export from the dashboard or side panel
Choose the clips you want and export. ClipMark writes a tab-separated file with three columns — Front, Back, and Tags — that Anki reads natively.
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In Anki: File → Import
Pick the file, choose the deck and note type you already use, and import. The file declares its own separator, HTML handling, and tags column, so there is nothing to configure by hand.
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Review, and replay when you miss
Each card back carries the video title, the timestamp, and a “Replay the moment” link that opens YouTube at that exact second.
What ends up on the card
Front
Your note for that moment. If you never wrote one, ClipMark falls back to the video title and timestamp so the card is still usable.
Back
The video title, the moment’s time, a deep link that replays it, and any longer note you added underneath.
Tags
The tags you typed as #words, carried across as real Anki tags — spaces become underscores so Anki reads them correctly.
The extension and the webapp produce byte-identical files for the same clips — that's covered by a test in the repository — so it makes no difference whether you export from the side panel or from your dashboard.
Limits, honestly
Anki export runs once a month on the free tier and unlimited on Pro. That is a real constraint, not a hidden one: it's printed on the pricing page next to every other cap. One export a month is enough to move a term's worth of clips into a deck in a single batch; if you export weekly, you want Pro.
Other destinations
Pro also exports a Notion-ready CSV that works for Obsidian and anything else that reads CSV. It's a file export, not a live two-way Notion integration — you drop it into a database rather than syncing continuously.
Do you still need ClipMark once cards are in Anki?
Only for the parts Anki doesn't do: capturing new moments while you watch, and reviewing against the footage itself. Plenty of people run ClipMark's own recall queue for recent lectures and export to Anki for long-term retention. Both work; they aren't exclusive.
Four things we refuse to get wrong.
The player stays clear, the free tier stays honest, the permissions stay narrow, and the thing that makes it stick is built in.
Lives in the side panel, not on top of your video
ClipMark opens in Chrome’s own side panel beside the player. Nothing floats over the video, nothing covers the controls, and YouTube’s keyboard shortcuts keep working — ClipMark only claims Alt+B to save, and [ / ] to step between clips while you’re actively revisiting.
A free tier with the numbers printed on it
Free means unlimited bookmarks stored locally, on-device AI notes, 25 Active Recall cards, 30 reviews a month, and 10 Anki exports a month — no card, no trial clock. Those are the real limits, listed on the pricing page rather than discovered after you install.
Two hosts. That’s the whole permission list
ClipMark asks for youtube.com and clipmark.mithahara.com — its own sync domain — and nothing more. It cannot read your banking tab, your email, or any other site, because it was never granted them. AI notes run on Chrome’s on-device model, so transcripts aren’t shipped anywhere for that.
Your note is the question. The clip is the answer.
Tools that quiz you on a video generate the questions themselves, from the transcript. ClipMark does the opposite: it hides the note you wrote and replays the exact second, so you check your own recall against the source. Every saved moment goes on a schedule — 1, 3, then 7 days, doubling up to 60. That retrieval loop is the product, not a bullet point.
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Keep reading
Keep the deck. Fix the capture.
Install ClipMark, save moments with Alt+B, and export them into Anki with the timestamp intact.
Add ClipMark to Chrome — FreeFree tier needs no card. Works in Chrome, Edge, and Brave.