Focus Room reopens any YouTube video or playlist as a focused course
Focus Room
You open YouTube to learn something, and the comments, Shorts, and autoplay pull you off course. Focus Room takes that same video and reopens it as a clean course you can actually follow.
The video, minus the comments, Shorts, and recommendations
The video, minus the comments, Shorts, and recommendations.
Add Focus Room to the front of any YouTube link, and the video opens in a focused workspace: the same video, through YouTube's own player, but the comments, Shorts, and recommendation rail are gone.
From rabbit-hole to a single lesson
From rabbit-hole to a single lesson.
A normal watch page is packed with comments, a Shorts rail, and a grid of recommendations. Focus Room clears all of that and leaves one ordered lesson with a progress bar. The clutter goes; the video stays.
It turns YouTube's own data into a course
It turns YouTube’s own data into a course.
Here's the clever part. Focus Room builds almost none of this itself. It reads what YouTube already has and reshapes it. The videos in a playlist become ordered lessons. The chapter markers the creator added become a clickable outline. The captions become a transcript you can search. Then Focus Room adds its own layer: a progress bar for the whole course, notes you can pin to the exact second, and a to-do list. The video stays on YouTube. Only the course shell and your progress belong to Focus Room.
Everything sits on YouTube, including the ceiling
Everything sits on YouTube, including the ceiling.
Here's what makes Focus Room instant on any video: it hosts nothing itself. It's a light shell on top of YouTube's player and data. That's the magic, and the ceiling. Even looking a video up runs on a daily allowance YouTube gives the app, and on its first day, that allowance ran out. Opening a link you already have still works, because that asks far less than a search. It's real and useful, with a ceiling YouTube sets.
One small edit reopens any video
One small edit reopens any video.
Focus Room is free, runs in your browser, and shipped today, built by an independent maker. Sign in, and you can save any course and track your progress, or build and share your own. To try it, add Focus Room to the front of any YouTube link.
Any YouTube link, a focused course you can finish
Focus Room
So the next time YouTube is where you're really trying to learn something, Focus Room turns that video into a course you can follow and finish.
