Workflows

Cromoteca workflows

Practical, step-by-step workflows for downloading reference media, transcribing it locally, and organizing a private archive on your Mac.

• Build a YouTube reference archive for creative research — Save YouTube videos you're authorized to keep, organize them locally, and build a searchable creative-research archive on macOS.
• Build a Vimeo reference archive for filmmakers and editors — Download Vimeo references you're authorized to keep and organize them into a local, high-quality archive for filmmakers and editors.
• Transcribe YouTube videos locally on Mac — Download a YouTube video and transcribe its audio locally on macOS, turning spoken content into searchable text without uploading to the cloud.
• Download and transcribe podcasts for research — Download podcast episodes you're authorized to keep and transcribe them locally on macOS into searchable research text.
• Batch video downloader workflow on Mac — Paste many links at once, expand playlists, and download everything into one organized local archive on macOS.
• Organize creative references into a local searchable library — Consolidate scattered links into a single organized, searchable creative reference library on macOS.
• Local transcription on Mac — Convert audio and video into searchable text entirely on-device on macOS, with no cloud upload.
• Offline media archive for research and creative reference — Build a durable, private, offline archive of research and reference media on macOS that doesn't depend on links staying live.
• Extract a color palette from a screenshot on Mac — Use Color Index to pull the dominant hex codes from a screenshot or image and save them as a .txt palette on macOS.