YouTube description and chapters generator

1. Paste your outline or script notes. Section headings with a line on each are plenty. The description only covers what the outline covers, so a thin outline gets a thin description.
2. Include timestamps if you have them. Once your edit is done, note where each section starts. With timestamps, the chapters use your times exactly.
3. Otherwise, give the length. Without timestamps, the length lets the generator estimate start times you can adjust later.
4. Copy all, then add your own links. The copied text has the description, chapters and hashtags in the order YouTube expects.

Chapters appear on the progress bar and in search, and they let viewers jump to the part they came for. YouTube only turns a timestamp list into chapters when it follows a few rules:

• The first timestamp is 0:00.
• There are at least three timestamps, in ascending order.
• Each chapter is at least ten seconds long.

The generator checks every list against these rules before showing it, and drops any chapter that would break them. Chapter titles should say what happens in that part. “Intro” and “Outro” tell the viewer nothing.

Only the first couple of lines of a description show before “more”, and they are often what appears under your video in search. So they are written to earn the click: what the viewer gets, in the words they would search for. The summary underneath is for the viewers who expand it.

Need a title to go with it? Try the title generator.