I’m mainly talking about anime shows but you can talk about overall all shows if you want to and this will be valid too. I’m looking for answers to the following questions:
•What do you use for tracking progress of shows you watch?
•What are the pros and cons of how you’re tracking your shows, and is it worth it to be tracking shows this way? (If you’re using a site for tracking, then mention the pros and cons of it with the name of the site)
Note: You can include more of your opinion and experience besides the questions’ answers if you want to
Not at all.
Jellyfin watch status and sonarr. I do use mal but really only for looking up the list of shows airing this season and adding some that I want to watch to sonarr.
It’s all in one place and directly relates to the availability on my server. Just a couple clicks and it’s tracked and downloaded.
I self host RYOT. It is a great addition of to my homelab and helps to keep data off of cloud services that sell my data.
I only use my head + the clues some streaming services provide marking shit as viewed.
You know, I’ve never really felt the need to do so.
https://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/
It’s a calendar so its purpose is mainly for you to see when an upcoming episodes air.
When you create an account (which is simple and doesn’t require any personal information or even an e-mail confirmation, if I recall correctly) you can subscribe to shows and mark episodes as watched.
I’ve been using it for years, it’s great.
Trakt + SeriesGuide.
I try not to context-switch between shows. However much of a show drops at a time is how much I watch before switching to a different show. Then I can just use the relevant platform’s “new episodes” alert to know when there’s something to slot into my viewing time.
•What do you use for tracking progress of shows you watch?
Nothing, I just delete whatever I already watched from my hard drive and I know what I haven’t watched just by being there.
•What are the pros and cons of how you’re tracking your shows, and is it worth it to be tracking shows this way?
The pro is that I don’t have any hard data that could be harvested on an website. The con is I can only rely on my own memory to remember what I have watched.
I used to track my music/tv/movies/games but I don’t really care anymore, it was that obsession with tracking that made it easier for me to trust platforms with my data (back in 2008 until like 2016 I tracked all that shit on last.fm, facebook, etc). I know there are self-hosted options now but as I said I don’t care enough anymore.
Thanks for taking your time to answer the questions I provided there. You’re the first one to do it and I’m glad you did… + Yeah, honestly, I’m losing interest in tracking too, not that I ever had THAT much of an interest either in it… I’m starting to care way less now… I mainly use AniList and I have only been recently using it to find out more great anime and talk to people about different anime and learn their opinions. I’m using it more for these reasons rather than for tracking stuff honestly
No problem, I imagined you wanted reasons behind our choices.
I used to track my anime on MAL, it’s still a great place to discuss anime just like before social media but I’m not active there anymore.
I guess my ‘great anime’ backlog is so huge that I don’t bother anymore and just try to keep myself up to date each anime season.
I also follow a Youtube channel called “Mother’s Basement”, I’m not really a fan of the guy but he makes a commitment to check out even the shittiest anime of each season and I discover some there.
I unfortunately use Trackt but through a client called Showly, which is great.
Also using Kitsu for anime and stuff (idk got used to keeping track on both. It’s just that I can log re-watches on Kitsu) through Kitsune
I’m a MAL user but I love how quirky Kitsu is, like their broad definition of anime including My Little Pony and the top ranking being like 90% Demon Slayer recap movies (it’s an exaggeration now but a few years ago it would not be)
Shera is in my top shows on Kitsu lmao
Manually via letterboxed and serializd
Paper & pen (or journaling).
Great way to track!
I usually don’t binge watch stuff tbh
So, do you use anything to track your shows?
If the platform I’m watching it on tracks it some way for me then yea but otherwise no
I’m very casual about what I watch
I used Trakt in the past, but nothing recently.
If I started tracking again, the main use case would be looking up a person and getting a quick list of where I’ve seen or heard the person before. I don’t know what sites do that.
Otherwise it can also be useful if a friend asks if I’ve seen anything good recently.
i know it lacks shows, and is owned by a holding company, but i use Letterboxd. My 🚬 cinephile friends are there, so its cool to see what we log. I read that the platform is trying to cover shows as well as movies, but it is still noticeably lacking shows.
