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Embedding external videos (YouTube / Vimeo)
Describes monthlet 1.0.1.
You can embed YouTube and Vimeo videos in a note. For privacy, a video is shown by default as a link card (no external connection); it switches to a playable embed (which does connect externally) only when you expand it.
How to add:
- In edit mode, paste a video URL into the note (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..., https://youtu.be/..., or a Vimeo https://vimeo.com/... link) and it automatically becomes a video embed card.
- You can also ask Chat: "embed this video <URL>".
Playing:
- Click the play button (▶) on the card to expand it into the player (an iframe) in place. Expanding loads the player, which connects to YouTube / Vimeo.
- Click the card title to open the original page in your external browser.
Privacy and limits: nothing is requested from external sites until you expand (thumbnails are not fetched either). Only YouTube and Vimeo are allowed as embeds; URLs from other sites are kept as plain links, not embeds.
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