Watch Later Tidy by Dominic Lam

Watch Later Tidy is a Firefox add-on for YouTube that searches and manages your Watch Later, your Liked videos, and
every playlist in your YouTube library, including ones you saved from other people. Search thousands of saved videos by title, channel or the uploader's own tags, bulk
delete, remove likes in bulk, filter by channel or topic, group the grid by channel, sort by duration, views or
upload date, reorder, sync every playlist at once, download transcripts in bulk, and escape the 5,000-video limit.
Everything in the feature list below is free; an optional paid tier, TidyWL Pro, adds clean-up rules, undo and a
watch-list builder on top of it. Your playlist is fetched with your own YouTube session and cached on your device —
the add-on reports back only a random install ID and usage counts, never which videos, plus your licence key if you
buy Pro. No account, no sign-in.

📋 Your YouTube Watch Later playlist is a graveyard.

Videos saved months or years ago. Channels you forgot you followed. A queue so long you stopped trusting it.

🔍 You know you saved that video. You just can't find it again.

Scrolling is the only tool you have — thousands of thumbnails, loading a screen at a time, hunting for one title you
half-remember. Give up often enough and the list stops being worth keeping.

Then one day you hit the 5,000-video limit. YouTube freezes you out — nothing new until you dig through the pile and
start deleting. One. Video. At. A. Time.

Your Liked videos list is worse — years long, no limit, and no way through it at all. The playlists you made
yourself get exactly the tools YouTube gives Watch Later: none.

Watch Later Tidy fixes all of it.

Open a dashboard over your YouTube page, type a few letters to find any video instantly, see your whole playlist
broken down by channel or topic (like a storage manager for your queue), filter, sort, reorder and bulk-delete.
Minutes instead of hours.

🚀 HOW IT WORKS

1. Install the add-on.
2. Go to youtube.com/playlist?list=WL (your Watch Later page) — or your Liked videos, or any playlist you own.
3. Click the Watch Later Tidy icon in Firefox's toolbar (pin it from the extensions menu if you don't see it).
4. Click "Open Dashboard".
5. Hit Sync and wait for the progress counter to finish.
6. Search by title, channel or tag to find one video, or browse by channel or topic, filter, sort, select,
   bulk-delete, reorder, or export.
7. Switch between Watch Later, Liked videos and your own playlists from the header at any time — each keeps its own
   cache. Tick several and you see them merged.

No account. No sign-in. No setup. No permissions beyond your current YouTube session.

🛠 FULL FEATURE LIST (free)

🔍 Search your whole playlist by title, channel or tag, as you type. Works across thousands of videos without
scrolling.
🏷 The uploader's own tags on every card, clickable as filters — stack several to narrow, hover +N for the rest.
🗑 Bulk delete selected videos, sent to YouTube in groups, with live progress, a stop button and Retry for any that fail.
❤ Watch Later, Liked videos and every playlist in your library in one dashboard — pick one, or tick several and see
them merged: one card per video, a chip for each playlist it's in, and Copy, Move and Delete across them. Playlists
saved from other people can be searched and copied from, but only their owner can delete from them or reorder them.
🔄 Sync every ticked playlist in one run, or one at a time.
🗑 Delete a playlist you own, by name, from the menu.
💔 Remove likes in bulk, through the same flow as deletion.
📊 A sidebar with channel breakdown bars, sorted by count, that collapses out of the way.
🏷 By Topic view: local keyword clustering, no API calls. Filter to a topic, or hide ones you don't want to see.
🔎 Search the sidebar's channel and topic lists as you type.
📋 Grid of cards or a compact list (List view), in the middle of the page or filling the whole window (Full page).
🎚 Filter by watched status (with an adjustable progress threshold), availability, or duration (presets or a custom
min/max).
🔃 Sort by playlist order, duration, published date, views or title A–Z, or group the grid by channel with a heading
you can fold for each one.
📝 Download transcripts for one video or hundreds, as timestamped text files named after the video.
📓 Send selected videos to Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) as sources.
📁 Move or copy videos to another playlist. Create new playlists inline (Private / Unlisted / Public).
↕ Reorder via Move to Top, Move to Bottom, or drag-and-drop (single or multi-select).
🔖 Per-video 3-dot menu: Move to Top, Move to Bottom, Open in new tab, Copy URL, Download transcript, Remove.
💾 Export to JSON or CSV (UTF-8 BOM, handles non-Latin titles correctly).
👤 Multi-account aware: auto-detects your logged-in Google account. Brand channels supported.
⌨ Keyboard shortcuts: Cmd/Ctrl+A (select all), Delete/Backspace (delete selected), Esc (close or deselect).
🌗 Light and dark theme following your browser's setting. WCAG-AA contrast in dark mode.
♿ Accessibility: keyboard navigation on dropdowns and menus, ARIA labels, prefers-reduced-motion respected.

💎 WHAT TIDYWL PRO ADDS

Pro is an optional subscription, available from https://tidywl.com/pro/

🧹 Three clean-up rules — remove dead entries, archive finished videos, and a monthly rule that holds your list at a
size.
📌 Pin a video and nothing removes it, rules included.
👁 See and deselect the exact list before any bulk delete or unlike.
↩ Undo deletions, with 90 days of history on the device that made them — 10,000 records by default, and you can
raise the limit.
🔖 Saved views — name a filter set, reapply it in one click.
🕒 Lineup — a ranked watch list from your own saves, fitted to the time you have.
💬 Feature requests and support answered first.

One key works on up to three devices — the About panel shows which devices are using it and lets you free one up.
There is no free trial: the free tier is how you try Watch Later Tidy, and any Pro charge can be refunded in full
within 14 days. Cancel any time from the same panel; it opens your own billing portal.

❓ FAQ

Does it need a YouTube API key or OAuth login?
No. It uses the same internal endpoints your browser already calls. No API key, no OAuth, no account setup. Pro is
unlocked by a licence key you paste in, not by signing in.

Do I have to pay for anything?
No. Every feature in the list above is free. Pro is an optional subscription that adds clean-up rules, Pin,
operations preview, undo, saved views and the Lineup on top of it.

What happens if my Pro subscription ends?
The paid features stop and the free add-on carries on exactly as before. Your playlists, caches, saved views and
delete history stay on your device and are not deleted, but saved views and the delete history can't be opened again
until you resubscribe. Pinned videos stay protected, and you can still unpin them. If your browser can't reach our
server for a while, Pro keeps working for 14 days before it drops back to free.

Is my data sent anywhere?
Your playlist is fetched from YouTube with your own session and cached on your device. It is not uploaded to us and
we do not hold a copy of it. Everything that does leave your browser is listed under Privacy below.

Does it work on my own playlists?
Yes. Open the Playlists menu in the dashboard header and click any playlist you created, or tick several to see them
merged. Favorites and playlists you saved but don't own can be searched and cleaned up, but not reordered.

Why can I only add 5,000 videos to Watch Later?
YouTube caps every playlist, including Watch Later, at 5,000 items. Past that, adding more fails silently and the
only fix is deleting older ones — which this add-on makes possible without losing your afternoon.

Can I open a playlist I saved from someone else?
Yes. Open the Playlists menu in the dashboard header and pick any playlist in your library, or tick several to see
them merged. You can search it, sort it and copy videos out of it, but not change it: only its owner can delete
videos or reorder them. The add-on greys out what it cannot do and says who owns the playlist.

How long does clearing out thousands of videos take?
Videos go to YouTube in groups rather than one at a time. On a real account, 126 videos were deleted in 31 seconds
and copied to another playlist in 16.

Can I undo a deletion?
On the free tier, no — deletions are permanent on YouTube's side, so export first if you want a snapshot. Pro
remembers what you deleted for 90 days on the device that deleted it and can put it back, at the top of the
playlist. It cannot undo a removed like: YouTube treats that as un-liking, not as a playlist edit.

Does it sync across devices?
No. The cached playlist lives in your browser's local storage. A Pro licence does roam — it is stored in the
browser's synced settings — but your playlists, saved views and delete history do not.

🔒 PRIVACY

Your playlist stays on your device. No login, no account, no servers holding your videos. There is no analytics SDK,
no advertising, and nothing is sold or shared.

What does go to tidywl.com:
- A request for a public config file and a notices file, with no identifiers and no payload, so the add-on survives
YouTube changing its page layout and can show you a notice. Notices are words and links only.
- A random install identifier (not linked to you or your Google account) and your lifetime counts — videos deleted,
likes removed, videos moved, bulk operations run, Lineups built and saved, days you opened the dashboard, the size
of your Watch Later, how often a free install opened the Pro plans and from where, how many notices you were shown
and clicked, and your browser — sent whenever one of them changes, and on Firefox only if you allow it. Never a title, a video ID, a channel or
a timestamp. On Firefox this is sent only if you allow technical and interaction data; Firefox's own add-on
settings control it. Records not updated for 12 months are deleted. Policy: https://tidywl.com/privacy/
- Only if you buy Pro: your licence key (or the Transaction ID from your receipt, to recover a lost key) and the
device name you type when you activate it, so we can check the key is valid and show you which devices are using
it. Nothing about your playlists or your Google account goes with it. Payment is handled by Paddle, our merchant
of record, in their checkout on the tidywl.com pricing page — the add-on never sees your card details.

The Lineup reads your YouTube watch history and your subscriptions to rank your saved videos. That reading happens
on your device with your own YouTube session, and none of it is sent to us or to anyone else.

"Send to Gemini Notebook" is the one flow that sends video links somewhere else: to Google's Gemini Notebook, using
your own Google session, when you press it.

Two optional permissions are requested only at the moment you first use the feature that needs them, never at
install:
- Gemini Notebook access, so the videos you pick can be added as sources.
- Saving downloads, so transcripts can be written to your Downloads folder.
Decline either one and the rest of the add-on carries on working normally.

⚠ HONEST LIMITATIONS

• Requires being signed in to YouTube in this browser.
• The free tier has no undo: deletions and removed likes are permanent. Pro's undo covers deletions only, for 90
  days, and only on the device that made them — it is not a cloud backup and it cannot restore a removed like.
• Removing a like is not a playlist edit — YouTube treats it as un-liking, which can affect your recommendations.
• Reorder is hidden on Liked videos — YouTube orders that list by when you liked things. Move works there: it adds
  the video to your chosen playlist and removes your like.
• Favorites and playlists you don't own can be cleaned up but not reordered — YouTube serves them without the
  per-item handle reordering needs.
• A merged view of several playlists can't be reordered, and deleting there removes the video from every ticked
  playlist — untick to one playlist to delete from just that one.
• Deleting a playlist is permanent. The videos stay on YouTube; the playlist does not.
• Pro's monthly clean-up rule only runs when your YouTube playlist is sorted by date added. If it isn't, the rule
  says so and does nothing rather than guessing.
• The Lineup needs YouTube to be recording your watch history to rank by taste. With history paused it picks by
  length and age only.
• Restoring a deleted video, or one from the archive, puts it at the top of the playlist. YouTube offers no way to
  put it back where it was.
• Transcript download opens a small visible window and works through videos one at a time, around three seconds
  each, in whichever language YouTube shows by default.
• "Playlist order" sort reflects current position, not the date you added the video. YouTube doesn't expose
  added-date on web.
• Uses YouTube's internal, undocumented API. It could break if YouTube changes their internals; a remote config lets
  many breakages be patched without an add-on update.

💬 COMMUNITY

Join the Discord to report bugs, request features, or just say hi: https://discord.gg/sTvjfp4sCk

Built by an indie developer who hit the 5,000-video limit and had enough. Independent and not affiliated with
YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. 🚀