Large library import management plus physical copy location management

Some of you, like me, have over a thousand titles to bring into Plex. At least it looks that way to me from the little I’ve seen in the forums and elsewhere. Mine is going to take me a year (or three) to fully copy to hard disk from its original optical storage. I simply don’t have the time to do it all in one go.
Because of this, I would like very much to have a single interface to manage the entire library.
Call me crazy, but it seems to make sense to me that Plex could do this better than another solution.
My suggested features are:

  1. Make it possible to create a list of movies that are yet to be imported and have a location field for the pending movies. This list of pending library additions would show up just like any other movie. But the location field would identify that it had a physical location outside of the Plex media folders.
  2. If the above is implemented, I think it would be awesome to also have a location field for backup copies of media that has been imported.

Is there a compliance issue that either of the above might trigger?
Does anyone else think this would be an awesome pair of features?
A pair of features, I might add, that only requires adding a location field or two to the schema (though, having worked with more than a few dev teams, I suspect that at least one location field already exists - but I’m completely willing to be wrong). And maybe a “location” button on the movie info screen. Though it could just be shown on the info screen as well. I think it would be cleanest if, instead of having a full navigation screen that activating the location button would just raise a small pop-up with the contents of the location field. Then there’d be no need to add any screen navigation for it.

And, yes, I know about apps like My Movies. But it doesn’t make sense to me to have a separate app for managing my content other than Plex.

I’m agree with that, entire library in a single app would be awesome <3

I too agree with this. I tried using the Label field and after adding location numbers to hundreds of movies, I reorganized my folders - moving animations into their own folder. Regrettably, it seems to have lost the Label info I had entered so that was a waste of time entering the location

I would like a way to have a persistent field I can use to identify where to find the movie media.