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Who are you, that can skim a video faster than skimming text? That's, like, the complete opposite of my lived experience ๐. What a rich melange of folks make up this world, eh.
Step 1 start video
Step 2 skip all introductory bullshit, usually about 5 mins
Step 3 - if pointless stuff is still playing jump further 5 to 10 Mins until worthy stuff starts playing.
Step 4 - repeat step 3 as needed till end of video
P.S. - Install Sponsorblock extension for YouTube. Which auto skips useless Ads and pointless section of any video that was voted for by the community of users
I'm glad that you have a workflow that works for you! I like to open up articles, instantly hit the 'reader mode' button, cmd+f for keywords, and hit 'next' until I find the relevant section. This usually takes just a few seconds to get to get meat (if there's anything worth skipping). One advantage is my internet connection isn't always great, so I only have to wait for a few kb of text to download (even on a shit connection that's not generally a lag I'm capable of noticing), whereas with videos I often have some loading issues. Also I hate the style of most presenters and can scroll back to the right point more easily in text articles if I've gone 'too far', so that's an approach that works for me.
Thanks for sharing! I've never heard of sponsor block, I rely on ublock origin (for Firefox, not the handicapped chrome version) when watching videos, and usually only watch videos that I actually want to watch, but I appreciate having another tool in my box.