I’ve just started to use the watchlist feature to make sense of the growing number of streaming services that I’m subscribed to, and it it working reasonably well, but there are a few very large gaps as far as I can tell. If anyone knows how to make any of these work, please post, otherwise, it would be nice to add these features:
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Watchlist Filtering and reordering: There are lots of places in the plex interface where it is possible to filter and reorder the list, but it doesn’t seem possible for the watchlist. Eventually, this list gets quite large, and it would be good to filter by genre, filter by release date, etc…or order by “last episode date added”, which would show the list with the most recently added new episodes first (or last).
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Option to remove watched items and/or remove show from watchlist after it is already completely watched (and then add it back again automatically when another episode airs). It seems like some of this is implemented, but it just needs some tweaking. If I mark an entire show as watched, it disappears from the list, but I don’t think it gets added back again when another episode that isn’t watched is broadcast (or added to streaming) the next week. Plex knows about upcoming episodes for most of the streaming platforms, but it doesn’t do anything about them.
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Automatically mark an episode as watched if I decide to watch it through the plex interface. So, if I navigate to a show, and then an episode, and I choose a streaming platform to watch it on…then assume I just watched that episode and mark it as watched (just like when I play it from my library). It doesn’t have to be perfect, but if I start an episode, then assume I watched it all, 90% of the time, that assumption would be correct.
Ideally, here would be the perfect scenario: I put all the shows I watch on the watchlist. I then order the list by the most recently aired shows. I pick a show to watch, and it takes me directly to the most recently unwatched episode on whatever streaming platform I subscribe to, and immediately marks the episode watched. If I watched all the currently available episodes, the show will be removed from the watchlist, but if a new episode is added, the show goes back on the watchlist, probably right at the top (because it just aired).
with that scenario, Plex becomes my main watch platform; I watch and manage everything from both my library and my streaming services through Plex.
