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TLDW — Send to app puts a one-click “Send to TLDW” button on YouTube, X, and Vimeo, so you can push a video into the Mac app without copying links. Send one now, or queue a batch and send them all at once.

Install

Add it from the Chrome Web Store: TLDW — Send to app. It works in Chrome and any other Chromium browser (Brave, Arc, and Edge).

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Requires the free TLDW Mac app. The extension hands videos to the app on your computer — it doesn’t transcribe anything itself. Get the app first (macOS 14+, Apple Silicon).

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On Edge, the first time you install from the Chrome Web Store you’ll see a one-time “Allow extensions from other stores” banner — click Allow.

Using it

On any supported video page you get two ways to send:

Send now — click the “▶ Send to TLDW” pill that appears on the page. The app comes forward with the video loaded, ready to turn into a note or a skill.
Queue for later — click the ＋ on the pill to add the video to a queue as you browse. The toolbar icon shows the count.

Open the toolbar popup any time to review the queue, add the current tab, and hit “Send all” — every queued video drops into the app at once. Batch processing is a Pro feature in the app.

How it works

The extension talks to the app through a local tldw:// link — the same mechanism a bookmarklet would use. Nothing is uploaded by the extension and there’s no account: it simply reads the URL of the page you’re on (only when you click) and hands it to the app, which then runs its usual 100% local pipeline. Your “send later” queue is stored only in your browser.

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Supported sites today: YouTube, X, and Vimeo. Anywhere else, you can still paste the link directly into the app.

Privacy

No account, no servers, no analytics, nothing uploaded by the extension. Full details are in the privacy policy.

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