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OfflineU

Help

Getting Started

  • Prepare your course files in a directory structure
  • Browse your library from the main page, or enter a path manually in Settings
  • Click a course to load it - folders drill down, courses open directly
  • Start learning! Progress, notes, and completion are all saved automatically
  • Not sure what to watch? The dice icon {{ icons.icon('dice', 14) }} in the top-right of the dashboard header picks a random course you haven't finished

Watching a Lesson

  • Space - play/pause
  • ← / → - seek back/forward 10 seconds
  • ↑ / ↓ - volume up/down
  • N - jump into the quick-capture note box (pauses the video)
  • Drag the video's bottom-right corner to resize it, and pick a default playback speed in Settings - both are remembered
  • Reopening a lesson resumes from where you left off, and the ▶ Resume button at the top of a loaded course jumps straight back to the last lesson you had open
  • The Lessons in this section list under the player jumps between other lessons in the same folder without leaving the page

Notes

  • Every note is stamped with the video's timestamp when you save it - click a timestamp to jump straight to that moment
  • Press N anywhere on a lesson page to capture one without reaching for the mouse
  • Edit or delete any note from the floating panel at the bottom of the lesson page
  • Notes (in the bottom bar) collects every note across your whole library in one searchable list
  • Download Study Guide on a loaded course exports every note as one markdown file, organized by section
  • If you use Outline, pick a topic on a lesson's notes to push them there automatically when you navigate away

Finding Things

  • Search courses by name from the Library browser on the main page
  • Check Also search transcripts to search inside subtitle files (.srt/.vtt) too, if your courses have them
  • Switch between list and grid (poster) view with the toggle next to the search box - handy for browsing a folder with lots of courses by thumbnail
  • Hide a course or whole folder from Settings → Manage Library without touching anything on disk
  • The {{ icons.icon('checkbox', 14) }} button in the Library browser turns on select mode - pick several courses or folders at once to hide or add to Next Up together
  • Bulk Rename (Settings) finds and replaces text across every course/folder name at once - useful for stripping a release-group suffix off a batch of downloads

Settings

  • Pick a built-in theme or set a custom accent color, corner style, and card style
  • Adjust font, text size, page width, and spacing density
  • Set the default library folder, and use Refresh Library if you've just added or removed files directly on disk and don't want to wait for it to notice
  • Download Backup exports your settings, hidden-path choices, recently-viewed history, and every course's progress/notes as a zip - not the course files themselves

Supported File Types

  • Videos: .mp4, .mkv, .avi, .mov, .webm, .m4v, .flv, .wmv
  • Audio: .mp3, .wav, .m4a, .aac, .ogg, .flac
  • Documents: .txt, .md, .html, .htm, .pdf, .docx, .doc, .rtf
  • Subtitles: .srt, .vtt, .ass, .sub, .sbv