Sync Server Played Status with Watchlist

The new watchlist feature is great, kudos to the Plex team on that one.

One small gripe though, if I want to hide something from my watchlist I either need to remove it or mark it as played. Both of which are manual actions.

It would be great if the “mark as played” action could be tied to the fact that I’ve watched the item on my Plex server.

I appreciate that this isn’t completely straight forward, as I may add things to my watchlist that are already marked as played on my server. Hence maybe it should ask if I want to hide from watchlist once something has been watched, or only remove from watchlist if it’s viewed after the date it was added to the watchlist - I’m open to suggestions here.

I know this can’t be done for Netflix or any other external streaming provider - but we have the data if it’s watched on Plex so why not use it?

This exactly

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This would really improve the user experience!

In my opinion, if you add an already watched movie then it should be removed on the next watched trigger/date. That is how it works on Trakt, and I think it is the most convenient way of dealing with this scenario.

I suppose you might want to check out this feature…

2022 clean-up: implemented