PanNote reads a recorded Panopto lecture's own captions and writes the notes you meant to take — then links every section back to the second it was said.
Free, in beta · 10 lectures a week · unlimited with your own API key
PanNote runs only on Panopto pages. It cannot see any other site you visit.
Chrome will show you exactly which permissions it asks for before installing.
Click the puzzle-piece icon in Chrome's toolbar, find PanNote, and click the pin. The panel is then one click away from any lecture.
Four steps, about a minute, most of it waiting.
Any recording you can already watch, signed in to your university's Panopto as normal. Click the PanNote icon and the panel opens beside the video.
Nothing there? If you installed PanNote while the lecture was already open, reload the page once (⌘R / Ctrl R). Chrome only grants access to tabs opened after an extension is installed.
One click. Sign-in exists to keep the free beta from being drained by bots — it records how many lectures you have generated, and nothing else.
A progress bar counts sections as they are written; a typical lecture takes 15 to 60 seconds. You can keep watching while it works.
If someone in your class generated this lecture already, you get their notes instantly, and it does not count against your weekly limit.
Click any section heading to send the video to that moment. Export as PDF, HTML or Markdown. Everything saves automatically to Library, where lectures group into folders per course and a whole course exports as one document.
A lecture opened, notes generated, a heading clicked to jump the video back to the moment it came from.
Recorded in real use; the waiting is sped up.
Generating notes costs money, so the free tier has a weekly limit. If you would rather have none, plug in your own OpenAI key — PanNote then runs entirely in your browser and never touches our server.
| Hosted | Your own key | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly limit | 10 lectures | None |
| Who pays | We do | You — about 2¢ a lecture |
| Sign-in | Not needed | |
| Where it runs | Our server | Your browser only |
| Setup | None | One paste |
Create an account at platform.openai.com and add a little credit — $5 covers roughly 250 lectures. Create a key under API keys and copy it; it is shown once. Then open the PanNote panel, click Use my own key, paste it, and save.
Set a monthly spend limit on the key while you are there. A key with a cap is bounded and revocable, which is what makes it safe to paste anywhere.
Into your browser, and to OpenAI. It never reaches PanNote's server, so there is nothing on our side to leak, and Remove key takes it back out.
Chrome's extension storage is not encrypted, so anyone with access to your computer could read it — which is exactly why a key with a spend limit is the right kind to use. Choosing “don't remember” keeps it in memory only, cleared when Chrome closes.
PanNote reads the captions Panopto already has. Most recordings have them; if yours does not, it can transcribe the audio instead, which takes longer.
They are good enough to revise from and wrong often enough that you should not trust them blindly. That is the reason every section links back to the moment in the lecture — verifying a claim is one click.
Features and limits may change. Notes already saved in your browser stay yours regardless, and can be exported at any time.
Install PanNote, open a lecture, and have notes before the kettle boils.
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