Hope everyone’s having a great Friday! I’m curious about how you all use Trakt lists. Do you treat them more like wish lists, adding shows or movies you want to watch when you have more time? Do you create personal lists for specific themes or genres? Have you ever had the same item on both your watchlist and a personal list?
Also, how often do you check out other people’s lists? Do you frequently add items from someone else’s list to your own watchlist or personal lists?
Lastly, have any of you used the collaborative list feature? What are your thoughts on it? Share your experiences and let’s discuss!
Feel free to share any tips or tricks you have for managing your Trakt lists!
“Add to watchlist” to me means adding shows or movies i want to watch later/following. i hope there’s no limit to it
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I never really used lists, only watchlists and collection. Both of which I used for their intended purpose. I now have to use my additional lists to add to my collection because of the recent changes.
Announced (date of first episode of new season announced)
Returning
Ended
Canceled
I have created a script using the Trakt API (which runs once every day, on a Raspberry Pi) to move shows between these lists and which mails me those changes (I’m particular interested in shows moving from “Returning” to “Announced”).
I mainly use lists to avoid polluting my watched history with junk data.
For example, I want to track all series that I watched in the past, but I don’t always know which specific episodes I did or didn’t see. If I try marking a series as watched via its , Trakt automatically sets every single episode as having been watched, even forcing me to set a fake date and time for them. Filling my history with misleading data devalues the real data. Using a list is a much cleaner solution.
This idea also goes for movies I’ve only partially watched, or ones I’m not sure if I’ve watched. Each of these gets its own list.
Occasionally I might want to rewatch or finish a series/movie from one of these lists, in which case they do end up on my watchlist as well (or they did, before the new limits were introduced).
I use the Watch List for items I already have in my Collection but want to prioritize to watch next.
Personal Lists are all genre based and all 3 of them are made using mdblist. Two are dynamic while one is static. I use them more as a better source for me to get suggestions and to learn of upcoming new shows in a genre I watch. Rarely look at the lists created by others.
I mainly use lists to track the context I’ve watched something in.
I have many lists for the film festivals I attended containing all films I’ve seen there. Or a list for a repertory cinema I’m a regular at, or one for when I’m traveling with friends to go to the cinema.
I use notes as a complement to this but since they don’t group well, I use lists for when I want to keep the films together.
For things I want to watch, I only used the main Watchlist.
I browse other people’s list mostly through the lists shown on the movie/series pages. Many of those lists are too generic (like the many yearly lists) but there are sometimes some interesting lists there.
Unfortunately, I don’t have many friends to use collaborative lists with. If there was an option to let others edit a list using a private URL, preferably even without a Trakt account, I could be using that feature more. E.g. right now, we have a Google Keep list with things for a group watch and using a Trakt list would be much more natural – but having everyone register with Trakt won’t work.
I do the same but using one list. This list is then sent to kometa which generates overlays with the status and also collection based on next airing date. I also receive discord notifications when a status changes.
I also use MANY lists for Anime episode types. Like if episodes are Fillers they go into a list, Manga episodes go in another, etc. This works by scraping the Anime Filler List site, mapping to plex and trakt, generating the lists, sending to kometa which applies the overlays. Discord notification on list errors/updates/deletions/etc and episode mapping errors (there are times where Anime Filler List and Trakt names differ, and also where trakt does not have any absolute episode numbers).
Since the limit was placed on lists to 100 items I use 2 different services. I have Trakt on my Kodi so keep a few things in them lists for stuff I’m currently watching but keep my main longer lists in Simkl as they are unlimited.
I used to separate things in a specific way using the lists just to make things a bit more simple for my OCD mind. I’d separate the things I’d want to watch by Live-Action, Animated and Anime.
I use lists to keep track of catching up on franchises with multiple series. The lists makes it so much easier and enjoyable.
My feedback:
Please make Public actually mean Public. Even if my profile is private my lists should still appear in searches and recommendations.
List categories - I strongly dislike how my lists are all just one page. I should be able to categorize them. Lists within lists essentially. And make the indexing unlimited. Lists within lists within lists…
Make it easy to bulk add to a list. I understand this may be taxing server side so I’ll take a cooldown or something. Like you can click through to add individual episodes all you want but if you want to add all the episodes in a season or show to a list there’s a cooldown. Or even a limit to a thousand episodes a day.
Being able to select specific items to copy from another list instead of only being able to copy all.
Why does a discussion like this have to be pinned?
Why do these messages get a much longer summary than messages from customers or free users?
Right now, these posts from @raluca/Trakt leave hardly any room for posts from customers or free users (on my iPad, in landscape mode), because of the above two “issues”, every time I visit this forum.
Its my understanding that if you add to watch list then it keeps track so you can leave off where you stopped it before just like on any streaming app you can continue where you left off
I need the lists for my stremio app. For example I want scifi series, but filtering by categories you get anything remotely scifi, including kids soap drama. So I am in need of a curated scifi list made by someone. Currently I’m having difficulty finding a good list, as the search sorting/filter is behind a paywall and there are 10k search results. Since the scope of my list is quite broad, i want to only search vip users, as they wont hit the 100 show limit.
, Trakt automatically sets every single episode as having been watched, even forcing me to set a fake date and time for them. Filling my history with misleading data devalues the real data. Using a list is a much cleaner solution.