I’d like to see a way of organising the watch list, for example, into folders or by being able to arrange items into a custom order.
Would you mind elaborating your suggestion a bit?
If you can share a specific use case this might help you get some more attention / votes for your suggestion. I’m e.g. not sure what you mean by organizing the watchlist into folders?!
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Not sure about the author of this suggestion had in mind, but I envision this behaving similarly to creating custom Playlists within the Watchlist:
- Use-case examples:
** Content to watch as a family
** Content just for movie night with friends
** Content just for date night with partner
** Etc…
These Playlists (or the Watchlist itself) can be ordered, or filtered, by:
- Custom (user decides priority)
- Started - Content started, but not finished
** Sub-filter - Sort by number of episodes left, or time remaining - Not Started
** Sub-filter - Sort by release date, ratings, etc…
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Another use case for me would be to create a folder of content I own, for quick clicking into it.
Wonder if he wants customized hubs for the watchlist? That might be cool.
My original thought was so that you could categorise films as there are certain films my wife likes, certain ones I like and some that we would both watch together - so some sort of Tag system would work also - maybe this is already there but I have been unable to find out how.
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I’d like to give a bump to both multiple watchlists and the ability to custom sort.
When I am caught up with a show, I want it to stay in my watchlist (for next season) but sort to the bottom of the list. Right now, the only way to do that is to remove and re-add the ~100 items I have on there so that the caught up show is “least recently added”.
I’ve thought about ways to do this, but honestly I’m happy to just sort it manually as I think it would be the most reliable way to do it.
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My biggest concern I am seeing with the current functionality is 50% of the items in my watchlist I am caught up on until a new episode or season is available. I would like to see the ability to hide those items or have them marked already watched. Then when new episodes are available they should be marked as such.
Has the ability to be a great feature. Keep on iterating!
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as well adding a way to filter by streaming service, and watched/unwatched indicators from the library would also be a benefit
One other illustrative use case:
I have an ~150 item watchlist. Mostly these are weirdy movies I want to watch myself. But about 10 of them are ideas for watching with the kiddo. When Friday movie-and-a-pizza night rolls around, I want to quickly see just the kiddo items, without having to eyeball the full list to find them.
This could be implemented as either:
- A “content rating” filter on the watchlist, so I could pick everything which is <= PG-13. This implementation is a “nice to have”, but:
a) it isn’t very granular nor flexible, so doesn’t fulfill the other similar user stories people are talking about in this thread (e.g. watching with one’s spouse.)
b) It might actually be a pain to use if users would have to select multiple values on two different filters (movie content ratings and show content ratings) in order to flip between full list vs filtered.
or
- Multiple watchlists. Then I could manually curate one list for me, one list for watching with the kiddo. This would be great.
or
- Tagging or categories within a watchlist.
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I use the Plex watchlist specifically as a “everything to watch or rewatch” list. It would be a godsend to be able to filter it down further or make child watch lists as custom made sub-selections of media would be incredibly helpful. .
• UNIVERSAL WATCHLIST
→ Background Movies
→ Kids Favorite Movies
→ Superhero Movies
etc…
Having only one list makes it harder to choose a movie for me personally.
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This is something I’d find useful too, with the main aim being to manage large watchlists. I currently use the watchlists of individual services as a way to save for later anything I come across on them that I think I might like to watch at some point, regardless of whether I believe I will ever actually get around to that particular title; this inevitably leads to quite large watchlists, so it would be good to be able to:
- mark certain items as “priority” or “shortlisted” within a larger watchlist
- filter by custom properties or tags as well as genre/category, etc.
Both of these could be achieved by something akin to IMDB’s multiple lists, where the default Watchlist is not the only list you can add things too.
Alternatively, or ideally in addition to this, lists including the main watchlist could be custom-sortable using drag & drop and one of the sorting options “custom order” (like Spotify playlists) so that you can position the titles you know you want to watch first near the top so you don’t forget about them as they drop further and further down the “recently added” order.
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Bumping this back up… but I would also love a way to organize my watch list. This comment by technomensch sums up the use cases I was thinking of pretty well. My watchlist is SO long, I want to be able to order things such that things I wanna watch soon, I can put at the top. In addition, I want to separate more easily by TV and movie, so be able to have separate watchlists. Perhaps even further divide like the other comment suggested, a watchlist for movies or tv shows I might watch with my whole family, vs ones that I personally want to watch that I know no one else in my family wants to watch.
