My YouTube process must be very corner case. I usually keep an eye on subscriptions during the day and add the videos I want to watch to watch later and then order them a special way. House and trailers first, entertainment, fitness and then music. I have a separate watch later for the gym that I curate in a similar order for long treadmill runs. And that gets downloaded to the phone.
I do this every day. YouTube’s changing interface designs usually make this harder and harder.
Being able to order by channel groups would actually help this but I usually watch via AppleTV app in the evening.
Apparently very few people use watch later and order intentionally. Just two actions to corner case myself.
I do the exact same thing and couldn't imagine using YouTube another way.
YouTube sometimes hides the watch later option, which is getting annoying (it only shows up at certain screen widths now on non-app), but I can usually find a way (even if I have to resort to emailing the URL, then later dropping it in a wider browser window on my desktop.
(Only difference is I actually drag longer videos towards the top of the list since they can sit there a while until I get a few minutes to actually watch them).
The problem I've always had is making it habit. I've created different play lists and added videos to them and watch later, but forget about them and then notice weeks later I have stuff in my watch later list I never watched.
Put another way, I find adding to watch later easy, but I find remembering there's stuff there to watch very hard. I'm sure YouTube could make this much easier, but I doubt they view intentional watching as better than stumbling through random stuff for hours.
How many minutes/hours a day do you spend curating your subscriptions? This sounds fairly exhausting looking at it throughout the day, every day. Surely you'd be able to achieve the same effect curating your subscriptions at the end of the day, or even end of the week.
It's literally minutes, not a big deal, but I also curate content for my child around shared interests. Youtube has channels and playlists and barely wants you to use them.
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My YouTube process must be very corner case. I usually keep an eye on subscriptions during the day and add the videos I want to watch to watch later and then order them a special way. House and trailers first, entertainment, fitness and then music. I have a separate watch later for the gym that I curate in a similar order for long treadmill runs. And that gets downloaded to the phone.
I do this every day. YouTube’s changing interface designs usually make this harder and harder.
Being able to order by channel groups would actually help this but I usually watch via AppleTV app in the evening.
Apparently very few people use watch later and order intentionally. Just two actions to corner case myself.
Check out NewPipe. It sorts all your subs by date, lets you make your own play lists, and can also download.
I do the exact same thing and couldn't imagine using YouTube another way.
YouTube sometimes hides the watch later option, which is getting annoying (it only shows up at certain screen widths now on non-app), but I can usually find a way (even if I have to resort to emailing the URL, then later dropping it in a wider browser window on my desktop.
(Only difference is I actually drag longer videos towards the top of the list since they can sit there a while until I get a few minutes to actually watch them).
The problem I've always had is making it habit. I've created different play lists and added videos to them and watch later, but forget about them and then notice weeks later I have stuff in my watch later list I never watched.
Put another way, I find adding to watch later easy, but I find remembering there's stuff there to watch very hard. I'm sure YouTube could make this much easier, but I doubt they view intentional watching as better than stumbling through random stuff for hours.
How many minutes/hours a day do you spend curating your subscriptions? This sounds fairly exhausting looking at it throughout the day, every day. Surely you'd be able to achieve the same effect curating your subscriptions at the end of the day, or even end of the week.
It's literally minutes, not a big deal, but I also curate content for my child around shared interests. Youtube has channels and playlists and barely wants you to use them.