Lists: Badge for titles in one of your lists

When we add a title to watchlist we will see a check badge in the movie poster in top left, but when add a title to a created list we dont have any indication to tell you that this title is already in your lists.

Can we add this option to have more organized collection and we have all time the indication that a title is on your list ( maybe a badge with other color not yellow like of the watchlist)

Thank you.

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Col_Needham

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2 years ago

@Charradi This would be quite computationally expensive, but we will leave the idea open for voting.

Just checking you are aware that you can already check on which lists a title appears directly from the title page (via the down-arrow to the right of “+ Add to Watchlist”)

Charradi

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Hi Needham,

Yes, I know that we can check if the title can be verified via the down-arrow to the right of “+ Add to Watchlist” but it's not practical at all !!

Technically it's not very complex to do it, just it's need to modify the SQL query that make appear the yellow check mark.

I think it's an idea very helpful, if not we need to put all titles in the watchlist without organization.

Regards,

2 years ago

argman

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We can make it optional which will save a lot of those expenses. Not ideal, but viable.

25 days ago

ioakim_ioakimidis

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2 months ago

That will enable people to know weather a title is in their watchlist or checkins easier. The most basic function I think off is knowing weather you watched, want to watch, got, want to get a film just by landing on its page.
It feels like a natural expansion of the green watchlist checkmark itself

The idea can expand to custom lists too, maybe with people choosing the colour of their list. And 2 lists having the same colour is still an improvement over all but one

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Lists: You could have different colour checkmarks for different lists

Stormcatcher

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I have a theoretical question: is the IMDb development team considering adding one more check mark on each poster, this time for the Check-ins? The Watchlist has such feature, so is there a remote possibility that also the Check-ins will have one?

I mean something similar to this:

Of course it could be made exclusive, so a title would need to be either in one or the other list, not both.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Check-in idea

1 year ago

pauliewaulie

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2 months ago

Would be helpful if you can see if the movie is on any of your lists, without going to its page. For example if do a search and are going through the results, or if your looking at someone else's list, if would be handy to see if its on any of your lists. This could be added text saying this is on list "name of list", or just hovering the cursor over an area and having your lists pop up, and it showing if its in any of them.

I have lists for movies that I own in various collectiongs of foreing,docu,english, and when I come across a movie it would be great to be able to tell that I have it, without having to click on the movie, go to its page, then go into the add to lists menu to see if its in there already.

maybe others feel similar!

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Ability to see if a movie is on any of your lists without going to its page

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12Aug2024 Edit to say: To my knowledge, the script no longer works.

I have a user script (works via Tampermonkey) that does what you describe, and colorizes titles according to the settings I specify (modifying the code of the script.) I didn't write the script, just found it online a few years ago. Search for "IMDb 'My Movies' enhancer". IMDb would be much LESS fun/useful without it.

5 years ago

pauliewaulie

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so I just installed greasemonky addon in firefox, and installed that script. Restarted browser. But I don't see anything different on the imdb website. Not sure how it is supposed to work, but I did a advanced search to create a list of popular movies, and I wasn't able to see any different colors for ones that were in some of my lists?

5 years ago

pauliewaulie

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I also saw someone comment this

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the author is hosting it at https://openuserjs.org/scripts/AltoRetrato/IMDb_My_Movies_enhancer
however it doesnt work anyway

so maybe it doesn' work anymore ?

5 years ago

bderoes

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12Aug2024 Edit to say: To my knowledge, the script no longer works.

It works for Chrome under Tampermonkey.
Don't know if the author still supports Firefox/Greasemonkey.
Here's a sample:

But you have to modify the color specifics.
On version 2020.02.28 [1.48], color specifications start around line 255. The next paragraph for controlling which list(s) get the color when a title/name is on multiple lists (var listOrder). Those are the only places I customize.
And you have to load the highlighting data into memory using the button on the Your Lists page:

5 years ago

bderoes

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12Aug2024 Edit to say: To my knowledge, the script no longer works.

I can't resist. Here's a cast list, complete with colorized people. The brown (actually DarkGoldenrod) are people on my newly minted list of actors with 100+ sound credits.

5 years ago

pauliewaulie

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After I did highlight refresh it works. I also have V1.48, I actually just left chrome because srolling wasn't as smooth as on firefox, so I wouldn't of went back. Ok so green = it is on my lists, which includes having it rated, which I guess means its on my "ratings list". And it is in gold when its on my watch list. Both of these can be redundant at times though, because there is the watchlist button on most pages, which would be green, and there is also the rating , so I can already see if it has been rated. But It shows what lists it is in when holding it over the green, so that works for what I needed.

Any tips/ideas on how to get any more functionality by changing color schemes?

Else I will leave it as is, since I can now see if a movie is on my lists, so not sure what more I want, or can do with it.

thx ;)

5 years ago

bderoes

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12Aug2024 Edit to say: To my knowledge, the script no longer works.

I have over 100 title lists, and use a few colors. Here's an idea of how I use them (without the 3 people colors), and I prioritize "own":
customColors["Your Watchlist"] = "DarkOrchid";
customColors["Your check-ins"] = "DarkGreen";
customColors["DefaultColor"] = "DarkOrange";
customColors["Your ratings"] = "LimeGreen";
customColors["Netflix Ratings"] = "LimeGreen";
customColors["online free"] = "Black";
customColors["own"] = "MediumVioletRed";
customColors["WISHLIST dancing"] = "Turquoise";
customColors["WISHLIST non dancing"] = "Turquoise";
customColors["WISHLIST opera"] = "Turquoise";
customColors["Watchlist, already released"] = "Turquoise";

5 years ago

pauliewaulie

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Wow, my system is for once more simple! I think the default works fine, as long as I can see I have it on a list and which list that is, by hovering, that's great. Thanks for sharing this great extension. Had no idea, someone would have created this for imdb.

5 years ago

jaythird

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@bderoes Is this still working to this day ?Cannot figure out how to make it work

8 months ago

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Unfortunately, it no longer works.

8 months ago

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@jaythird

I've edited my posts above to add this:

12Aug2024 Edit to say: To my knowledge, the script no longer works.

8 months ago

jimthing

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2 months ago

Can we please(!) once and for all have some visual cue on pages as to when a title appears on one or several of our (personal) lists?

Without writing out a massive explanation here, I just knocked up a super-quick mockup of screen-shots to illustrate the idea as they'd appear on each different page. Obviously this is very crude, but it gives one an idea of how these could be accomplished.

Notice the three coloured dots

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on each IMDB page...

The idea is that these are chosen by the user for each list they have, with enough screen realty to display say up to 10 distinctively different coloured dots on each screen, and the user only being able to use one colour of dot per list, to avoid having the same colour used for multiple lists (making them pointless, obviously).
These dots should be available to all users, regardless of them using the standard view or the reference view.

So you could have your "Watchlist" or "Want To See" list in RED dot, "Seen" in BLUE dot, "Favourites" in WHITE dot. Or whatever your heart desires, as a user!

Thus for the example below, I'd know this title appeared in my:
RED dot = "Want To See" [presumably again!]
BLUE dot = "Seen"
WHITE dot = "Favourites"

They would appear on each page view, as follows...

- Search results (desktop browser):

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- REFERENCE view title page (desktop browser):

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- STANDARD view title page (desktop browser):

- Search results (iOS app):

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- Title page (iOS app):

You'd obviously have some other views I haven't bothered to do for this mockup, and you'd likely want to do something similar for actors lists (maybe use coloured squares, instead or something).

Anyway, thoughts?

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Lists idea: Coloured dots on title/search pages, per list.

jimthing

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Deep answer that. But given your rude "Hmmm!" responses, why would anyone expect anything more. Childish much.

6 years ago

jimthing

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Like I said; childish.

6 years ago

ljdoncel

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Hi, Jim:

On the desktop version you might want to try this userscript.

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6 years ago

jimthing

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Sure that's a localised solution to the problem per user per access point (i.e. in browser only).

But really, users should have a native built-in viewing solution for this issue.

Thanks.

6 years ago

bderoes

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@ ljdoncel, I too am a long-time user of the script you cite. (Thanks many times to its author Ric!)

@ jimthing, Your idea might be good for the app, but I have 89 title lists at the moment, and it's not uncommon for a title to belong to more than 3 lists. So I'm very dependent on Ric's mouseover popup box that shows all the lists to which the title (or person) belongs.
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Ric's script also gives the ability to prioritize lists, so when the title/person belongs to multiple lists, the color assigned will be the prioritized one. I currently use 11 different colors. And because it works on Chrome, the script works on Windows and on Chromebook.

The only thing not ideal about Ric's script is that he needs to update it when IMDb makes a change. But so far he's been very responsive to that, and has been able to improve the script's performance a lot in recent releases.

6 years ago

jimthing

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@bderoes (<= how do you markup to link names again?)
Yes, I'm sure that script is useful; especially for users in your situation with loads of lists.

Just to be clear, while the example I gave showed 3 dots, I actually did say the maximum should be maybe up to 10 dots per item (title/name), as any more than that:
(a) Wouldn't be able to fit on search/title/name pages (especially on smaller mobile devices app screens); and
(b) 10 primary colours is doable as differentiated from one another enough to be able to tell them apart, but if we started having more than 10, we'd then end-up with colours too similar to tell apart (eg. "light orange" vs. "mid orange", or similar).

The idea being that most users would only have a handful of lists, so 10 would be plenty for the majority without issue (most users likely only have a handful of lists, I'd bet).

And for those who have many more, the idea would be you assign a coloured dot to your important everyday lists – the lists you want to see easily as you trawl through the database. And not the one-off did once, and don't need to refer to constantly lists.

So heavy lists users would be able to see different colours for up to 10 of their "favourite" lists they use daily, e.g. Seen, Want To See, Musical To Watch, On The Channelmaster, Opera Owned, Own, Bootleg, etc.

While other lists they make as a one-off 'grouping of items' (e.g. "Films Mark Kermode's mentioned on his best 20 films of 2002", or something) that aren't important to see all the time, wouldn't get a dot.

You get up to 10 coloured dots for 10 of your lists (you can use less if wanted or none at all, of course), then the rest don't get any. Or perhaps a black clear ("o") dot could be used to signify you have the item in any other lists you have.

6 years ago

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jimthing, I'm warming to the idea of 10 dots, especially if they appear on lists and search results (which is what we get from Ric's script). However, I would need a mouseover to tell me which list that color represents, because right now I couldn't tell you what which color means what (and I use only 11 colors now). And I don't like the dots being off to the side. Having the title bold in color makes it stand out more in a list (user made or search results). So I'm still partial to the implementation of Ric's script over your idea. But that's partly because I'm not using an app to access IMDb on a regular basis. (Is there an equivalent to "mouseover" on a phone or tablet?)

BTW, Ric's script does let you specify the Default color for Lists and for People (separately). Being able to choose which color to use from the entire pallet of colors is very nice. And the mouseover gives each exact list name, not just "default".

6 years ago

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@ bderoes,

because right now I couldn't tell you what which color means what (and I use only 11 colors now).

Haha, only 11 colours. That's already way beyond the average user, I'd suspect.

And I don't like the dots being off to the side. Having the title bold in color makes it stand out more in a list (user made or search results).

The problem with having the title coloured, is just that: it's only in one colour per title. You cannot have multicoloured titles.

By having separate coloured dots, you can identify many lists simply by seeing the dots next to the title/name, and it works without masses of colour design work in both dark and light modes.

Additionally, with many interfaces across platforms, I highly doubt mgmt would want to have multiple text colours per the script you currently use does, as it'd be inconsistent across interfaces. Platforms like Apple and Android have design elements they encourage that work to make a consistent user experience, and various web technologies also make implementing similar uniform cross-platform browser design features possible.

Yes, a mouse-over on desktop would help some users, if it's possible to implement.

Remember most users likely have only 1-3 lists. So remembering that red=want-to-see, blue=seen, and green=favourites, is not going to be very difficult for the majority of users.

AFAIK, there is no such thing as mouseover on touch interfaces (like smartphones/iPads/etc.), so while most users would be fine, edge cases such as yourself would have to either 'learn your colours' or flick onto the lists page as per you already do, if using apps.

6 years ago

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I think I would want the title/person to be colored/displayed differently even with the multi-dots. Unless the dots would lead the title. In other words, I feel the title needs to stand out as being different, and dots off to the side wouldn't be different enough for me.

Regarding mouseover: just because something's not possible on mobile devices doesn't mean it shouldn't be implemented on desktop. I love the mouseover in search results that IMDb already does (showing dir, stars).

I have no idea (nor any notion of how to form an idea) of how many lists users have, at least among those who create lists. If you averaged the total among all users, I'd bet it's less than 1 that they custom-created (beyond system-created Watchlist, Check-in, Rating [which isn't actually a list]). But the change to lists in Dec '17 caused a bit of traffic on this site.

BTW, 2 of my 11 colors are for people lists.

I wish us both luck on trying to get titles/people color-coded in officially supported IMDb s/w. Because I'm happy with Ric's script, I'm much more eager for IMDb to implement an add button on Name pages as we have for titles. This post is approaching its 6th anniversary.

6 years ago

jimthing

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I think I would want the title/person to be colored/displayed differently even with the multi-dots. Unless the dots would lead the title. In other words, I feel the title needs to stand out as being different, and dots off to the side wouldn't be different enough for me.

See what I already said about this. There are serious flaws in doing it that way, per what I previously said. You have to consider how users in the generality would use things, and their ability to actually be technically implemented.

Regarding mouseover: just because something's not possible on mobile devices doesn't mean it shouldn't be implemented on desktop. I love the mouseover in search results that IMDb already does (showing dir, stars).

I didn't say it shouldn't be done on desktop, if possible.

BTW, 2 of my 11 colors are for people lists.

Hence why I said you could have coloured squares for names with coloured dots for titles.

I wish us both luck on trying to get titles/people color-coded in officially supported IMDb s/w. Because I'm happy with Ric's script, I'm much more eager for IMDb to implement an add button on Name pages as we have for titles. This post is approaching its 6th anniversary.

Yeah, nothing happens on database sites this size for YEARS it seems. The same thing I've found across various database websites. :-/

Anyway, this thread can stay as a reference point for the moment. And I don't think it's worth discussing further right now, given the likelihood of anything happening for the next X years.

Thanks, bye.

6 years ago

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A watchlist is a great idea to add films quickly to a list. This list says: movies I want to watch one day. However, another equally important list is "My Collection". This list says: I have this film in my collection. We know that all film enthusiasts have their own film collection and they're proud of it, this will hit beautifully. It is also useful because when someone doesn't remember if he have a specific film or not, they'll find this tool a time saver. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation Link : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-to-my-collection/67ddd8fae7cf820830cabb70 Title : Add to My Collection

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This is already supported; you can create a list with any name you like and add to it from any title page. Are we missing something here in your suggestion? Please see the Lists FAQ at https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/lists-faq/GNQMN47VZSE7KW38

28 days ago

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[We have merged this thread into an older Idea for the same concept]

27 days ago

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