Navigating the App
Find your way around the Vid Receipts interface.
Navigating the App
Here's a quick tour of the Vid Receipts interface so you can find everything you need.
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.
Video Player
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.
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 personalised 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
Guided Tour
First time using the app? Vid Receipts may offer a quick interactive tour when you first sign in. It walks you through the main features step by step, so you can feel right at home.
You now know your way around! Head back to Getting Started if you need a refresher, or dive into the rest of the Help Center to learn about advanced features.