MinimalTube

MinimalTube is an application created for those individuals wanting to create watch lists for later use without having to visually sift through content and most likely get caught up by the procrastination wave of aimlessly sitting in front of your PC watching cat videos. Joking aside this basic application will allow you to search YouTube content from a CMD-looking window, fast and easy without having to know too much about how it actually works.

After launching it, the application basically keeps interacting with you, telling you what the next step is in creating an HTML file filled with your selected content. It does seem a bit over the top to create watch lists in this way, but it's fun and it does look pretty geekishly cool when you do it. As far as avoiding contact with YouTube content is concerned, you really don't have to use this app for you to escape addiction. It could help in the process of controlling your addiction, but in the long run, nothing will stop you from actually browsing YouTube. The cool factor around it is enough to have you try this at least once.

As strange as it may sound, the application will ask you a couple of times if you're done editing your list, to which you have to answer "yes" or "no". Be careful because any change to these particular words/commands, even writing them in capital letters, will result in a crash. The application will not save any of your preferences so if you've worked long and hard on creating your list, it's bound to be wasted time on your hands. Once again, the only aspect tied to this app remains the fun factor. It looks cool and it's fun to operate. There's not much functionality attached to this app.

MinimalTube is an interesting application at first, yet it loses its fame and fortune once you discover that there really isn't much behind its command line, YouTube downloading approach. Keep it close for when you've got friends over and show them what an innovative way you've found to work with YouTube video. Create watch lists, if you manage to avoid crashing the application, and save your HTML file for later viewing.