Behind the scenes

The origins of CMDglows and ReplayGlows: the launch stories, the mistakes and the choices behind the products.

Timestamped bookmarks on a YouTube video
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Diane

Oct 21, 2026

Why I built ReplayGlows: YouTube notes with a saucepan in hand

I had a perfect video note-taking workflow in Obsidian, and I never used it. Here is why, and the YouTube extension I built to fix the problem.

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Diane

Oct 20, 2026

Desktop Enhanced on AppSumo: the launch that started CMDglows

Desktop Enhanced, a Notion template of 200+ Windows tools sold on AppSumo in 2021, became CMDglows. Origin, reviews, lessons and what it turned into.