Organize YouTube subscriptions

Have you ever subscribed to just keep the link?

Of course, in this case, you start receiving video from this channel. But what if you don't want to receive any videos. You can copy the link to the channel instead of subscribing to it, but then you need to save this link somewhere. In such cases, it would be better to simplify the addition of the link. Using this extension, you can group a YouTube channel without subscribing, as a result, you can find it by the link. The changes will be saved to Google Drive, so you can find this link from other devices.

As a rule, if you have at least one news subscription, then you have more than a dozen new videos every day. This can make it much more difficult for you to find a new video on a different topic. But it would be strange if a person liked to hear news from one channel. For more objective information, you should have several news sources.

What's stopping you from using YouTube subscriptions for all the news?

Obviously, the main problem is the inability to remove all news videos if the news is no longer needed. This extension allows you to group YouTube subscriptions using a hierarchy. For example, all news can be combined together, thereby separating them from other topics. If necessary, you can exclude this group of YouTube subscriptions in the filtering panel, as a result you will be able to see videos from other groups of YouTube subscriptions.

High-quality content is often very difficult to produce, which is why bloggers rarely release such content. For example, science videos may come out less than once a month. It's okay to use a large number of these sources if you like science videos. Sometimes there may be several hundreds of such sources, and the frequency of video output from them will often be several times less than that of one news source.

What is the problem if you want to receive high quality content?

The problem is that unlike the news example, in this case you are using a large number of video sources. This extension allows you to group YouTube channels and subscriptions, complementing the YouTube subscription manager to create the desired structure of all sources, which will be used to search by category, topic, content quality, etc.

Sometimes you see a video on the main page or among those suggested by a search engine, and you understand that you do not trust this source of information and you do not want to waste your time on any video from it.

What YouTube features allow you to stop wasting time on obviously bad content?

There is an opportunity to like the video on YouTube, after which you can find this video in a special playlist. If you put a dislike, then you will not see the playlist for the videos you disliked, but you can see the dislike for this video.

YouTube also has the ability to create playlists, so you can basically add bad videos to playlists.

In addition, YouTube has the ability to subscribe to a channel, and you will receive videos from this channel in subscriptions.

How can these YouTube features help us to avoid watching videos from bad channels?

We add only videos to playlists, if new videos from this channel come out, this will not help us much in determining that the channel is not suitable for us, since a new video has not been added to the playlist. But, of course, we can understand that there is no need to watch a video that has already been added to the playlist or which has been disliked.

Subscribing to a channel gives us the opportunity to create a label about the channel, but the label does not give us enough information. If we use the fact of subscription as information that we do not like the channel, then we will lose the opportunity to use subscriptions for their intended purpose and everything that we get in the subscriptions section will be from those channels that we do not like.

It can be concluded that it seems that it is simply impossible to mark channels as bad.

How do I mark channels as bad?

In order for this opportunity to appear, you need to use this extension. It allows you to group YouTube channels and subscriptions that you don't like. YouTube channel group information is visible on the video viewing page, so if you added a YouTube channel to the group, then you have the opportunity to understand in advance what quality this video is.

Since this feature is so necessary, why didn't YouTube implement it?

In the past decade, YouTube has made a similar feature and now you can even find some mentions of it. But this feature has been removed from YouTube.

How can you save time watching videos?

While watching videos, you often get enough information to save you time. You should not lose the information you receive. Typically, you need data to predict something. And data is the experience you get as a result of your viewing. At first glance, it may seem that by liking the clip you are doing something useful for yourself because you keep your impressions. But it will not help you much if you want to decide whether to watch a new clip from this channel or not.

In order to find a solution, you need to link your impressions to your YouTube subscription, grouping with other channels. This will allow you to quickly find suitable clips, and will save you time if you figure out which broadcasts are unnecessary for you. This extension allows you to achieve this goal by ranking and grouping YouTube subscriptions and channels.

Let me show you an example. Let's say you are already subscribed to a channel that releases many new clips every day, but most of the clips do not interest you. You know that the program you want comes out once a week. You have to get a lot of extra videos six days a week for one show.

This extension gives you the ability to hide unnecessary items with one click. All you need is to link the group to the YouTube channel and include it in the filter when you need it.

What do you do when you have a lot of elements?

If we are talking about a file, then you usually put it in a folder. Let's pretend we have a lot of YouTube subscriptions. Have you seen a folder for them somewhere? In such cases, you need to group YouTube subscriptions to create a hierarchical structure by organizing channels into categories.

This application extends the capabilities of the YouTube subscription manager, which is available on the subscription management page. It allows you to organize your subscriptions using categories like folders. This feature is very similar to the YouTube collections removed in the last decade. But unlike collections, the data you create is stored on Google Drive, so you manage it. You can make a backup or sync with your computer just like a regular file on a Google drive. If you want, you can even see what's inside the file or delete it completely.

You can find the extension here - Channel groups and rating