Having two users to track who watched what?

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Howdy,

I looked up some info on Multiple Users and found the Plex Home information and also found things about having people with separate Plex accounts. I’m not sure which I need or if either will do what I want to hopefully someone can clarify that for me.

I am not a Plex Pass subscriber so that rules out Plex Home from what I can see.

All I want to do is to open Plex and choose if I’m watching a show or if my wife is watching a show so that I can tell what I’ve watched separate from what she’s watched. That’s it. Seems pretty simple but I’m not finding the info on if/how I can do that within one Plex account or if she needs her own just to do that or what.

If we both watch a show together, I’d also need a way to manually mark something as watched from the admin panel or web interface or something as well.

Does that make sense? Can anyone help?

Thanks!

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If you are using the same device to watch Plex on, you’ll definitely want ‘Fast user switching’.
And that is only available with a Plex Pass.

There is currently no way to automatically mark an item as ‘watched’ for 2 user accounts at the same time.
You can however,

  1. switch to the other user account
  2. mark the item(s) manually as ‘watched’
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OK. That’s what I was thinking I’d need as we have Fire TVs that we run Plex on. Every once in a while my wife will watch something on her laptop but that’s relatively rare.

Thanks!