While navigating YouTube, I often find myself saving videos to a playlist in order to watch them at a later time. Saving all of the videos, I intend to revisit, to a single playlist will cause the list to become cluttered and overwhelming to browse over time. Therefore, I often categorize videos I save by topics of interests, such as product design, architecture, lifestyle, comedy, and news.
Although, it would be nice to have the ease of scanning through fewer than ten categories, the hard (not so hard) truth is that I have over 50 categorized playlists 🥴.
I’ve been watching YouTube for over 10 years, so its only fitting that I’ve amassed hundreds of videos by now. Due to being a YouTube binge watcher and a stickler for clarity, I’ve resorted to subcategorizing my videos to keep my playlists simple and clean.
Unfortunately, having numerous playlists makes the process of archiving a video more cumbersome, because YouTube lacks a search field element within their “save to playlist” feature. This process is even more complicated by the fact that the playlists are not sorted alphabetically within the save component. I take at least 3 laps from top to bottom of the “save to” list before I finally spot the playlist I’m seeking to store a new video.
This arduous game of finding a needle in the haystack often leads to me abandoning the video all together. However, it has also inspired my quest to explore a better solution for accessing playlists within the “save to” feature