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Give ChatGPT a YouTube video's method

You can paste a transcript into ChatGPT and it will help you with that video today. Next week, in a new chat, it is gone. Cat & Paste turns the video into a playbook that stays where ChatGPT can find it.

Try it with a video

First one is free. No card.

Why a transcript is not enough

A transcript is everything that was said, in the order it was said: the jokes, the sponsor, the detours. ChatGPT has to dig the method out of it every time, and a chat forgets it once it is over.

A playbook is only the method, written as instructions: when to use it, the steps, the numbers, the mistakes. It is short enough to keep in reach and clear enough to follow.

Route 1: the connector

Connect once and ChatGPT finds all your playbooks by itself, in any chat. A ChatGPT dot uses the same connection: once the plugin is on your account, your dot can use it too.

  1. 1In Cat & Paste, press “add to ChatGPT”: the address is copied and ChatGPT opens.
  2. 2Press the plus button, then “Add custom MCP server”. Name it Cat & Paste and paste the address under “Server URL”.
  3. 3Choose OAuth, accept the warning, press “Create as a plugin”, then sign in with your Cat & Paste email.

Route 2: upload the file

  1. 1On the playbook's page, under “Add this playbook to your AI”, press “add to ChatGPT”: the zip downloads in the layout ChatGPT asks for.
  2. 2In ChatGPT, press your profile icon, choose “Skills”, then “New Skill” and “Upload from your computer”.
  3. 3Choose the zip. In a work account, your admin may need to allow uploads.

Route 3: paste the text

Questions a playbook suggests you ask
  • How much should I charge to repaint a small bedroom?
  • Check this quote before I send it.
  • My jobs keep running over budget. What am I missing?

Press “copy as text” on any playbook and paste it into the instructions of a ChatGPT project, so every chat in that project follows it. This route needs nothing else.

Long videos

YouTube videos up to 3 hours with captions, 1 hour without. A two-hour course comes back as one playbook a few screens long, so ChatGPT can keep it in mind while it helps you, instead of a transcript of thousands of words.

What it does not do

It reads the spoken words of a YouTube video, not what appears on screen, and it does not watch along with you: the playbook is written once, from what was said.

Questions

Which ChatGPT plans can use it?

The text route works on any plan. If your account does not show the connector or file options yet, start with the text.

Will ChatGPT use it on its own?

With the connector, yes: when a question matches a playbook, ChatGPT can look it up. You can also ask for it by name.

Is my playbook private?

Yes. Only your account sees it, and an assistant sees it only after you connect that assistant.

Every way to give your assistant a playbook, step by step: connect your AI