Ask HN: What are folks using to track what shows/movies they’ve watched?

Notes app (backed up in cloud)

I watch shows from 10 different sites, so I note it down which show/movie I watched and till which episode.

Same here, but I also backup to the cloud (my partner) and they remind me if I have watched it.

I made a private web app — a glorified list really — that allows you to type in a movie to add to a watchlist, and then later you can mark an item as watched.

It just keeps track of the movies in your list, counts of watched and unwatched movies, the day you added a movie, marked a movie as watched etc.

Nothing sophisticated or smart. No pictures. Just a dumb boring list. Something I coded up on a boring Sunday.

Only me and a handful of friends use it.

Although it's out there on the internet (hosted on a cheap DigitalOcean droplet) and is open-source, I'm deliberately not sharing it here because it's not quite ready yet for the potential hug of hacker news:

- there's no email validation

- there's no captcha or anything

- I'm too lazy to fix the above problems

"I prefer my own memory to paper. It works hands-free while driving, works without light late at night, and it’s waterproof in the shower. I especially like the way it improves everything I put into it. I have missed an occasional appointment. Perhaps that’s an improvement too."

- Ward Cunningham

I wish I could remember but some movies just don’t come to me until I’m half way through again haha