[Implemented] Feature Request - Watchlist

Feature Suggestions
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Hello dev,

I have a feature in mind that I would like to see implemented in Plex for the non deciders, the forgetters, and the relaxers. Watchlist - This feature would allow users to create a new section similarly to 'on deck' dedicated to content that the user plans on watching at some point of time. User can select any video content from any libraries and add it to their watchlist.

This feature would make browsing your 1000+ movie library a thing of the past. Let's not also mentioned it would be the ideal feature for those old devices that have a hard time loading huge libraries. You would never come home and be indecisive about what to watch today. A complete list of tv shows and movies that you are interested in watching all in one section.

Feature option: Automatically remove content after status set to watched (On/off)
Auto adding selected series (on/off)

 

Don't forget to like this post to vote for this feature!  :)

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Great idea.

I opted this as well, and one of the devs replied with “sounds interesting”, so i still have hope that this will be implemented.

It is like the Favourites option in xbmc, but also like the Playlist option where you can set rules like “only unwatched” items, so that the movie/epsiode will be removed automatically from the watchlist as soon it is watched.

I used this all the time when i was still using xbmc.

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@Arjan1105 See the only thing I don't like is the word favorites for such feature. A favorite is something that you favor. You can not favor something that you don't know anything about. Similarly to movies and tv shows. I can't set a movie that I have never seen before as afavorite. However it is a great idea for Plex to have a favorites option for the movies lovers who wants to share their experience with others. 

"Have you ever seen this one? Top Gun. It's a great movies. Great story, great casts, great plot. It's a classic. One of my all time favorites." - You can't say the same about something in your "watchlist" because you haven't seen it yet. 

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@Arjan1105 See the only thing I don't like is the word favorites for such feature. A favorite is something that you favor. You can not favor something that you don't know anything about. Similarly to movies and tv shows. I can't set a movie that I have never seen before as afavorite. However it is a great idea for Plex to have a favorites option for the movies lovers who wants to share their experience with others. 

"Have you ever seen this one? Top Gun. It's a great movies. Great story, great casts, great plot. It's a classic. One of my all time favorites." - You can't say the same about something in your "watchlist" because you haven't seen it yet. 

I totally agree, it was just a example of an implementation that was in past versions if i am correct, but isn't anymore.

Therefore it shouldn't be too difficult to create the Watchlist feature, which shows some similarity, although not exactly the same.

However, i think that when the playlist support is implemented in PHT, we can use this as a watch list feature.

This is exactly what i did in xbmc.

I created a playlist called Watchlist, which was a so called "smart playlist".

Which actually means that i could set a rule like "times watched=0".

Then when i browsed through my library and saw a movie i wanted to have in my Watchlist, i opened the context menu and chose the option "add to playlist, and chose Watchlist.

It then would appear in my Watchlist, and when it was actually watched, it dissapeared.

This would also be possible with the playlist feature in Plex, unless we cannot set specific rule. Then we would have to manually delete the item from the playlist, which is not that bad, as long as this will be possible from within the client, in this case PHT, and not from within the web client, because it would be tedious to start the web client every time you want to delete something from your playlist.

I think we can expect the new release of PHT any time now, so let's keep our fingers crossed that it features a proper playlist functionality!

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@Arjan1105 I will ask for favorites once watchlist is implemented. If it gets implemented. But yeah I totally understood where you were coming from. Just wanted to share my opinion. 

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bump

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Surprised there's not more support for this? It's a basic feature on Netflix, Amazon Instant Video etc and really useful to just browse through now and again and just mark stuff to watch later!

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I know right. Very surprising. 

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the favourites implementation needs to work from the play menu while watching things... like a star toggle maybe... cause at the moment when i find old friends episodes or two and a half men or whatever, to favourite them in a playlist, i need to get my phone out and use use it to add the currently playing episode in "On Deck" to a playlist... would be far easier and user friendly to be able add them to favourites or playlists even from the play menu :)

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the favourites implementation needs to work from the play menu while watching things... like a star toggle maybe... cause at the moment when i find old friends episodes or two and a half men or whatever, to favourite them in a playlist, i need to get my phone out and use use it to add the currently playing episode in "On Deck" to a playlist... would be far easier and user friendly to be able add them to favourites or playlists even from the play menu :)

I agree. I actually came up with the idea while watching and early episodes of two and half men. There are so many of them and sometimes I would like to show my friends and I could not remember which one. 

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ahah, omg same... lately friends, but before that two and a half man... is there a feature request for an easier way to add to playlists mid view do you know?

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ahah, omg same... lately friends, but before that two and a half man... is there a feature request for an easier way to add to playlists mid view do you know?

If I understand what you are referring to by "mid view" correctly, you are talking of a feature they had in PHT called bookmark. In bookmark you can save a particular position (s) within a video during playback like you would with pages of a book you are reading. 

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I totally agree, it was just a example of an implementation that was in past versions if i am correct, but isn't anymore.

Therefore it shouldn't be too difficult to create the Watchlist feature, which shows some similarity, although not exactly the same.

However, i think that when the playlist support is implemented in PHT, we can use this as a watch list feature.

This is exactly what i did in xbmc.

I created a playlist called Watchlist, which was a so called "smart playlist".

Which actually means that i could set a rule like "times watched=0".

Then when i browsed through my library and saw a movie i wanted to have in my Watchlist, i opened the context menu and chose the option "add to playlist, and chose Watchlist.

It then would appear in my Watchlist, and when it was actually watched, it dissapeared.

This would also be possible with the playlist feature in Plex, unless we cannot set specific rule. Then we would have to manually delete the item from the playlist, which is not that bad, as long as this will be possible from within the client, in this case PHT, and not from within the web client, because it would be tedious to start the web client every time you want to delete something from your playlist.

I think we can expect the new release of PHT any time now, so let's keep our fingers crossed that it features a proper playlist functionality!

That actually works quite well, I've just set up a smart playlist for my documentaries... with the shuffle feature in playlists as well it's even greater. Thanks for the tip! The only thing is, it's not sat in OnDeck, which would be the perfect place to sit this as mentioned by breezytm. I was thinking then, wouldn't it be far easier to implement playlists into OnDeck? 

This would still provide us a watchlist and also make it easier (would have thought anyway) on the devs. We'd then just set up the playlist to unwatched as mentioned by ArJan1105 save it, and then maybe have an option that would allow the showing in OnDeck? What do you two think? Is this the functionality you were mentioning with watchedlists? 

Also couldn't the playlist feature be used for favourites as well? You could just set a playlist up to show your highest rated watched movies? 

Then the only thing left to do really is to add these both to OnDeck, or maybe some kind of quick link to them. 

I like this idea though, certainly want a watch list and what I've implemented already with the playlists does about 90% of the job so I'm happy. Still given a like because it could do with an official way mind. 

 

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by on deck, do you mean allowing to add on deck episodes to playlists?

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by on deck, do you mean allowing to add on deck episodes to playlists?

No the other way around, allow playlists to show on OnDeck. So it would be similar to now, but you create the playlist that OnDeck will sort through, maybe adding options to order the movies by download date or what ever date you wanted. Then we'd just create the playlist and anytime we wanted to catch up with say our massive amount of unwatched additions click the playlist from OnDeck as we would with TV shows or movies part way through.

I just feel this will give you similar to what you want but allow it to work nicely with 2 features already added. I would think it would make it easier on the devs, but without there knowledge on how it's coded I have no idea. 

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No the other way around, allow playlists to show on OnDeck. So it would be similar to now, but you create the playlist that OnDeck will sort through, maybe adding options to order the movies by download date or what ever date you wanted. Then we'd just create the playlist and anytime we wanted to catch up with say our massive amount of unwatched additions click the playlist from OnDeck as we would with TV shows or movies part way through.

I just feel this will give you similar to what you want but allow it to work nicely with 2 features already added. I would think it would make it easier on the devs, but without there knowledge on how it's coded I have no idea. 

I see what you are saying. For me, I would rather they implement it the way I described. I know it may be some additional work on their end but It would be more user friendly. Did you see how hard it was for you to explain your thoughts. Imagine your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, brother, niece and nephew who aren't computer savvy using that feature. It just isn't ideal for them. Where as just browsing through the library and just click on add to watchlist seems so much simpler. Similarly to right click on an item and add to playlist. It's quite simple and all you have to do is explain its purpose and they would understand. Netflix, Hulu, etc...they all have it and that is something they are already familiar with. Nothing new to learn. When asking for a feature, it is always good to keep the family in mind you know what i mean. 

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Playlists doesn't sound like the answer to me.

Even the option to manually add something to On Deck would be a step forward, and should be easy for them to implement?

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Playlists doesn't sound like the answer to me.

Even the option to manually add something to On Deck would be a step forward, and should be easy for them to implement?

On deck is a different feature though. I don't want this to be implemented with On Deck at all. On Deck is for next episode an movies in progress.

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No the other way around, allow playlists to show on OnDeck. So it would be similar to now, but you create the playlist that OnDeck will sort through, maybe adding options to order the movies by download date or what ever date you wanted. Then we'd just create the playlist and anytime we wanted to catch up with say our massive amount of unwatched additions click the playlist from OnDeck as we would with TV shows or movies part way through.

I just feel this will give you similar to what you want but allow it to work nicely with 2 features already added. I would think it would make it easier on the devs, but without there knowledge on how it's coded I have no idea. 

i see now... so the playlist itself, as at where you're at sits in the on deck, not the episode your up to likely it does currently... that's one of the most annoying things i find at the moment in regards to shuffling tv shows or playlist... the episode you were last up to sits in the on deck... i find i'm constantly having to mark episodes as viewed to "clean up" my on deck to reflect what i'm actually up to... having the playlist itself sit there would be a better solution... but I'd like to see the on deck modified to ignore shuffled content... i.e. if i shuffle play a playlist or selection in my library, resulting files don't go to On Deck, and if i play (sequentially) a playlist or selection it'll display in the On Deck...

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On deck is a different feature though. I don't want this to be implemented with On Deck at all. On Deck is for next episode an movies in progress.

Not saying it's the answer, just better than nothing.