01 / CONTEXT → CLARITY
Stay with the idea.
Ask about a video moment, lesson, or saved note. Flia uses that context to help you understand.
EARLY ACCESS
Add a link to a YouTube video or playlist and learn at your own pace, away from the recommendation feed. Take notes, create practice tasks, review with flashcards, and ask AI questions about your lesson — all in one workspace.
Free during beta · By invitation · Desktop or laptop
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Follow along with the video at your own pace.
Take timestamped notes you can easily find later.
Get instant, contextual help from an AI assistant, right in your workspace.
Pick up where you left off with your progress saved.
Focustack is built for people who use YouTube to develop skills and explore new subjects. Bring the material that interests you and organise your learning around a topic, a skill, or a course you want to complete.
Timestamped notes and bookmarks help you find a specific moment in a lesson and revisit it in context.
Save tasks you want to complete and flashcards to review. Mark lessons as complete to see your progress.
Turn a link into something you keep.
Start with a video or playlist.
YouTube link
Spanish basics9:40Spanish for beginners
Ordering coffee
Ask questions and capture what matters.
Quisiera un café, por favor.
I’d like a coffee, please.

“Quisiera” is a polite way to say “I’d like.”
Review flashcards. Try a task. Keep going.
Get help with your lessons, try what you’ve learned, and work through questions along the way.
01 / CONTEXT → CLARITY
Ask about a video moment, lesson, or saved note. Flia uses that context to help you understand.
02 / IDEAS → PRACTICE
Try a short exercise from your lesson. Get hints as you go and discuss your answer with Flia.
03 / LIBRARY → NEXT STEPS
Get help choosing what to study or revisit next from the materials in your library.
Watch lessons, capture timestamped notes, ask AI questions, and track your progress in one place.
| When learning directly on YouTube | With Focustack |
|---|---|
| Save videos and links to specific moments | Keep timestamped notes and bookmarks beside the lesson |
| Find videos through search and watch history | Search your saved notes, bookmarks, tasks, and flashcards |
| Use course quizzes, where available | Create your own lesson tasks and flashcards |
| Manage practice tasks in a separate tool | See open learning tasks across your playlists |
| Rewatch lessons or take available course quizzes | Review your own flashcards across lessons in one session |
| Ask about the video, where AI is available | Ask Flia about a lesson moment, saved note, or bookmark |
| Follow your viewing progress in Courses | Keep lessons, notes, practice, and progress together |
| Watch in the standard YouTube interface | Expand the lesson, with study tools one click away |
A few things to know
about learning with Focustack.
Request an invitation with your email and a short description of what you’d like to learn. The beta is for adults 18+, with initial invitations focused on the US. We invite people gradually by email and can’t promise an invitation date. Newsletter subscriptions don’t request beta access.
Focustack is free throughout the beta. Limits apply to playlists and AI usage. Pricing after the beta hasn’t been announced.
Start with a YouTube video or playlist link. Private videos and playlists aren’t supported, and videos need to allow embedded playback.
Focustack is designed for desktop and laptop browsers. Mobile support isn’t available. Before you start, we recommend putting your phone aside, turning off notifications, and clearing away anything that distracts you. Stay focused!
Flia AI works with the context you select, such as a video moment, a full lesson, or saved notes, bookmarks, tasks and flashcards. For playlists, it uses prepared lesson summaries, which may not cover every lesson yet.
You create and save your notes, tasks and flashcards. Flia AI helps explain ideas, suggests exercises and discusses your answers. It doesn’t automatically create or save items in your workspace.
No. The videos still come from YouTube. Focustack adds a learning workspace around them, with your notes, bookmarks, practice materials and Flia AI alongside the lesson.
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