What does DistillNote do?

DistillNote turns YouTube videos, podcasts, and articles into structured notes with summaries, chapters, highlights, and action items — in about 60 seconds.

What content formats does DistillNote support?

DistillNote supports YouTube URLs, uploaded audio/video files, podcast RSS feeds, and web articles.

Is DistillNote free to use?

Yes, DistillNote offers a free tier with weekly credits. Paid plans (Plus at €7.99/mo and Pro at €19.99/mo) provide more credits and additional features.

How does the AI Q&A feature work?

You can ask questions about any note in your vault. The AI answers using the actual transcript content and provides timestamped citations so you can verify the source.

DistillNote workspace

AI knowledge workspace for everything you read, watch, and hear.

Turn videos, podcasts, articles, files, and manual notes into structured sources you can read, search, ask, and build from.

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Designing for sustained attention

A workspace built for reading keeps the source, the question, and the answer in the same glance.

What does the author mean by tools coming to the reader?

The workspace brings chat, highlights, and citations to the source instead of sending you away from it.cited

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From source to note

Drop in a source. Get a note you can actually use.

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distillnote.app/vault/huberman-morning-routine

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YouTube · Research talk · 42 min

The perfect morning routine, according to neuroscience.

TL;DRChaptersKey takeawaysAction itemsTranscriptHighlights

TL;DR

Get bright light in your eyes within 30 minutes of waking, delay caffeine by ~90 minutes, schedule hard work for the cortisol peak, and finish the morning with a short cold exposure. Simple inputs, compounding effect on sleep and focus.

Key takeaways

Morning sunlight exposure (2–10 min) anchors circadian rhythm and improves sleep onset that evening.
Cortisol peaks within an hour of waking — align hard cognitive work with this window.
Caffeine delayed 90–120 minutes after waking avoids an afternoon adenosine rebound.
Cold exposure (60–90 s) after morning sun reinforces alertness via noradrenaline.

Chapters

00:00Intro — why morning routines matter
04:12Circadian biology in 5 minutes
11:38Light exposure protocol
19:05Cortisol & cognitive peak window
27:41Caffeine timing rationale
34:22Cold exposure dose response

Action items

The workspace

One workspace. Three surfaces. No losing your place.

DistillNote keeps the source list, the reader, the chat, and the work you generate close enough to move between them without rebuilding context.

Vault1

Every source stays close.

Videos, podcasts, articles, uploads, and manual notes sit in one organized source list.

Read + Ask2

Ask without leaving the source.

The reading surface and chat stay in the same workspace, so follow-up questions do not cost you your place.

Studio3

Generated work has one home.

Summaries, highlights, notes, and generated artifacts live beside the source instead of scattered across tabs.

Studio Focus

When you need to really read, the workspace adapts.

Focus mode gives long summaries and transcripts room to breathe. Highlight a line, tap Ask bot, and keep the chat beside the source instead of losing your place.

Try Studio FocusBuilt for long sources, careful reading, and answers that stay in context.

Cited Q&A

Ask questions. Get answers tied to the source.

DistillNote keeps the chat in the same workspace as the thing you are reading, then attaches citations to the answer so the source is always one glance away.

Ask beside the source

Designing for sustained attention

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How does context switching actually hurt deep reading?

The source says the cost is not only the interruption. A trace of the previous task stays active, so the next reading block starts with less available attention.cited 01

Your note adds the practical rule: protect one longer morning block before opening the inbox.cited 03

Ask a follow-up about this source...Try cited Q&A

cited 01Podcast transcript

Context switching creates attention residue

The answer points back to the exact moment the source explains why the next block feels harder.

cited 02Article highlight

Tools should come to the reader

Saved highlights become evidence, so follow-up questions stay grounded in the original passage.

cited 03Manual note

Protect the morning reading block

Your own notes sit beside generated structure and can be cited alongside imported sources.

Search, canvas, graph

Find it later. Connect it when it matters.

DistillNote is not only where sources land. It is where saved ideas stay retrievable, usable, and connected after the first read.

Search01

Find any line again.

Hybrid search helps you recover exact phrases and related ideas across the vault.

Canvas02

Pin what you want to think with.

Notes, answers, and sources can become a working board instead of a dead archive.

Graph03

See how sources relate.

The graph keeps connections grounded in actual saved sources and notes.

Pricing

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€7.99/month

500 credits / month
Semantic AI search
Q&A with citations
Clean exports — no watermark
Up to 50 collections
20 visual canvases

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€19.99/month

1,500 credits / month
Everything in Plus
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Priority processing
Early access to new AI models

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