A floating notepad for YouTube. Watch and write on one screen.
Floti floats a real note over your video — draggable, dimmable, and it works even in fullscreen. Capture a timestamp with one click and jump back anytime. Notes that float on your video, not beside it.
No account needed. Your notes stay on your device.
React hooks deep-dive
useEffect cleanup ⏱ 2:35
dependency array gotcha ⏱ 7:12
custom hook pattern ⏱ 11:48
Taking notes on YouTube means fighting the video.
Every tool forces a tradeoff: lose your place, shrink the video, or lose the moment.
Tab-switching breaks your flow
Pause the video, alt-tab to Notes, type, tab back, find your place again. By the third time you've lost the thread of what you were even learning.
Sidebars shrink the video
Sidebar extensions bolt a fixed panel to the edge of the screen. They squeeze the video, cover the playback controls, and vanish the moment you go fullscreen.
Your notes forget the moment
A note in Notion or Apple Notes has zero link back to the video. 'That great bit was around 12 minutes?' Good luck scrubbing to find it again.
Watch and write on one screen.
Three steps. No tab-switching, no sidebars, no setup.
Open any YouTube video — the note floats on top
Click the Floti button and a real floating note appears over the player. Drag it anywhere, dim it with the opacity slider so it never blocks the action. It even stays on top in fullscreen.
Write while you watch — all on one screen
Type rich-text notes (bold, headings, lists) right over the video. Keep multiple notes per video. Everything auto-saves locally — no account, no setup, nothing leaves your device.
Key takeaways
• cleanup runs before every re-render
• deps array controls when effects fire
Capture the moment — jump back anytime
One click stamps the video’s current time into your note. Later, click any timestamp and the video seeks right back to that exact second. Your notes become a map of the video.
Everything you need. Nothing in the way.
Simpler than the learning platforms. More elegant than the clones.
True floating overlay
A real floating note over the video — not a sidebar. Stays on top of everything, even in fullscreen. No competitor does this.
Drag & dim
Move the note anywhere on screen and adjust its opacity so it never blocks what matters. It reopens right where you left it.
Timestamp capture & seek
One click stamps the current time into your note. Click any timestamp later to jump the video straight back to that moment.
Rich-text notes
Bold, italics, headings, and lists. Keep multiple notes per video, each scoped to the video you were watching.
Local-first & private
Your notes save to your device automatically. No account required to start. Nothing leaves your browser on the free plan.
AI summaries
Turn a messy set of notes into a clean, shareable summary of the video — powered by Claude.
The only one that actually floats.
Every competitor is a fixed sidebar. Floti is a HUD for your video.
* Competitor pricing as of 2026. Subject to change.
Free to use. Pro when you want more.
The floating notepad is free forever. Pro adds sync, AI, and export.
Free
Everything you need to take notes on YouTube.
- Floating notepad (drag & opacity)
- Works in fullscreen
- Timestamp capture & click-to-seek
- Rich-text + multiple notes per video
- Auto-saved locally
- 2–3 AI summaries to try
Pro
For people who live on YouTube to learn.
- Everything in Free
- Web app sync across devices
- Unlimited AI summaries
- Export to Markdown & PDF
- Unlimited notes
Install the free extension now — Pro unlocks from inside the app.
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