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Reader for social posts and videos

Read YouTube transcripts and full X, Threads, Substack, and LinkedIn posts as clean, highlightable documents inside Eden, no tab-switching required.

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Reader view isn't just for articles. Save a YouTube video or a social post and Eden can render it as a clean, readable document you can sit with and highlight.

Videos and social threads carry some of the best material a creator can study, but they're built for scrolling, not reading. Eden's reader surfaces turn them into text you can actually work through.

The YouTube transcript reader

Save a YouTube video and you can open its transcript as a clean, formatted document. Instead of scrubbing the timeline, you read the whole talk as prose: paragraphs, comfortable spacing, and the same editorial type as the rest of Reader.

This is the transcript as reading text, so you can move at your own pace and highlight the lines worth keeping. It's reading, not playback: tap-to-seek by timestamp isn't part of this view.

The social reader

The social reader renders the full text of a post or thread in the same clean surface, with select-to-highlight built in. It works for:

  • X articles and long-form X posts
  • Twitter and Threads threads, stitched into one continuous read
  • Substack posts
  • Long LinkedIn posts

Everything lands as one readable document, so a ten-tweet thread reads top to bottom without the reply chrome getting in the way.

Open the reader

  1. 01

    Open a saved video or post

    Click the saved YouTube video or social item to open it.

  2. 02

    Click the book icon, or the Reader button

    In the top-right of the item, click the book icon. For social posts you can also click the Reader button in the post details view. Eden loads the transcript or post text into the reading surface.

  3. 03

    Read and highlight

    Select any passage to highlight it. Click the book icon again to exit back to the standard view.

Turning what you read into material

Everything you highlight here behaves like any other Eden highlight: it becomes an item you can place on boards, connect to related items, search, and pull into chat. So studying a competitor's thread or a long talk directly stocks your swipe file.

For how highlighting works in detail, read highlighting while reading.

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