Navigating the app

A tour of the Vid Receipts interface, video player, receipt feed, feed tabs, working tray, and discovery shelves.

Here's a quick tour of the Vid Receipts interface.

Video URL bar

At the very top of the app, you'll find the video URL bar. Paste any YouTube video link here and press enter to load it. This is your starting point for adding receipts to any video.

Paste a YouTube link:

Paste a video or playlist link, the Watch button lights up once it's a valid YouTube URL.

Once a video is loaded, it appears in the video player area. You can play, pause, and scrub through the video just like you would on YouTube. As you scroll down the page, the player becomes sticky and stays visible so you can keep watching while browsing receipts.

Receipt feed

Below the video player, you'll see the receipt feed: a scrollable list of all the receipts (annotations) on the current video. Each receipt shows the author, timestamp, and content. Click on any receipt's timestamp to jump to that moment in the video.

Shared receipts visible to everyone watching this video.

Click a tab to switch - each feed type keeps your receipts organized

Alex Rivera

just now

At this timestamp, the speaker makes a key point about data privacy that contradicts their earlier statement at 1:15. Worth comparing both moments.

Interactive demo, try the reaction and vote controls above

Feed tabs

Use the feed tabs to switch between different views:

Public: Receipts shared by the community. Visible to everyone.
Private: Your personal receipts. Only you can see these.
Drafts: Finished receipts you've saved for later publishing.
Custom Feeds: Curated feeds created by you or others. Great for organizing receipts around specific topics or groups.

Discovery shelves

The dashboard surfaces several shelves of videos so you always have something to receipt:

Recent: videos you've recently watched on Vid Receipts.
Featured: a hand-picked rotating spotlight.
For You: a personalized shelf, much richer once you connect YouTube.
Subscriptions / Playlists / Liked: three more tabs that light up after you connect.

Each shelf scrolls horizontally. On desktop you can:

Mouse wheel: hover the shelf and scroll, the shelf advances one tile at a time.
Trackpad: two-finger swipe sideways (or up/down), the shelf snaps in the direction of the swipe.
Drag: click-and-drag works as well, with momentum.

The Surprise me button (shuffle icon ⇄ next to the URL bar) picks a random featured video for you when you can't decide.

Working tray

The Working Tray is your active workspace for receipts you're currently writing. It's different from the Drafts feed:

Working Tray: Receipts you're actively editing right now. They live in the tray until you save them to a feed.
Drafts feed: Finished receipts that you've explicitly saved as drafts for later publishing.

On mobile, the Working Tray appears as a swipeable panel alongside the Queue and Feed. It only appears when you have in-progress receipts, tap "Add Receipt" to open it.

On desktop, the Working Tray appears as a column between the video player and the receipt feed.

Add Receipt button

The Add Receipt button is your go-to for creating new annotations. Click it to open the editor, write your receipt, and save it to the feed of your choice.

Your stack

Your Stack is your personal collection, a place where all your receipts live. Think of it as your profile's library. You can review, edit, or manage all the receipts you've created from here.

Settings

Click the gear icon to access your settings. From here, you can:

Manage your account details
Create and switch between personas
Connect your YouTube account
Adjust your preferences

Navigating the app