Project
VidSavant - local-first video knowledge workspace
Personal local-first desktop app that turns video URLs into searchable, summarizable, chat-enabled knowledge items.
- Role
- Sole author
- Python
- NiceGUI
- SQLite
- yt-dlp
- OpenRouter
- FTS5
- FastEmbed
VidSavant is the successor to the earlier VideoLearningTool prototype: a local-first desktop app that turns a video URL into a searchable, transcript-grounded knowledge item with template summaries, timestamp-cited chat, optional downloads, and durable background jobs. By 2026-07-21, the implementation had completed Phase 32 of the upgrade roadmap: scoped chat now supports immutable video/tag/selection/library snapshots, bounded cross-video FTS evidence, validated [V