August 20, 2026 (1mo ago)

Flocus now builds you a real course, not just a chat window

The original version of Flocus was, underneath everything, a chat screen. You picked a topic, and a tutoring conversation started. That's a fine way to get unstuck on one problem, but it's a strange way to learn an entire subject — nobody wants their whole course to be a scrollback of messages, and "what should I study today" isn't a question a chat window answers well on its own.

So the app is now structured the other way around. Pick a course or an exam track and Flocus curates a syllabus for it — organized into units and lessons, each one covering a specific concept, in an order that actually builds on itself. Individual lessons pull in a real video explanation where one exists for that exact concept, not a generic playlist you have to sift through yourself. You move through it the way you'd move through an actual course: read or watch a lesson, work through it, move to the next one.

The tutor didn't go away — it moved. Every lesson has an "ask for help" button that drops you straight into a focused conversation about that specific concept, with the tutor already knowing exactly what you're looking at. That's a better job for a chat interface than being the whole app: a place to get unstuck, not the only way to make progress.

The mastery tracking underneath — what you've locked in, what's fading, what you've never quite gotten right — didn't change. It's the same model, just attached to a course structure instead of a bare topic list, which means "what should I study today" finally has an obvious answer: whatever the course says is next, weighted by what's actually fading from memory.