Need program to track progress in multiple TV series

May 6, 2008 12:02 PM

Is there a good program to monitor progress in various TV shows? I.e. what episode I'm on in shows if watching multiple shows in different seasons irregularly.

Optimally this would integrate somehow with hulu/abc/WMP, but I wouldn't expect that. Anyone have a good app like this? It gets confusing with series starting and ending different times, and picking up or taking breaks from different shows.

posted by lrodman to computers & internet (11 comments total)

Sounds like a job for a text file.
posted by trevyn at 12:14 PM on May 6, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]

Or a pencil.
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:21 PM on May 6, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

You could make a little table, with one axis being show names, and the other being episode numbers. One table per season, check off the ones you've watched.

It's not automated, though.
posted by owtytrof at 12:44 PM on May 6, 2008

Tried bookmarking the wiki episode lists? Unless you want to actively journal your watching habits, it's probably easier to just quickly skim those as you forget.
posted by cowbellemoo at 12:46 PM on May 6, 2008

I'd do this with Excel, but I admit that's a whole lot of overkill.
posted by SlyBevel at 1:13 PM on May 6, 2008

I just use a Word file for this. I use the "strike-through" formatting to indicate what I've already watched, and I only list out episode titles for the season I'm currently in the middle of. (I added a strike-through button to the formatting toolbar so I could easily apply it.) But even the strike-through is unnecessary if you want to go with a straight text file. For example, part of my file might look something like this:

Arrested Development
   Season 1
   Season 2
      The One Where Michael Leaves
      The One Where They Build a House
      ¡Amigos!
      Good Grief
      Sad Sack
      Afternoon Delight
      Switch Hitter
      Queen for a Day
      Burning Love
      Ready, Aim, Marry Me
      Out on a Limb
      Hand to God
      Motherboy XXX
      The Immaculate Election
      Sword of Destiny
      Spring Breakout
      Righteous Brothers
   Season 3

Northern Exposure
   Season 1
   Season 2
   Season 3
      The Bumpy Road to Love
      Only You
      Oy, Wilderness
      Animals 'R' Us
      Jules et Joel
      The Body in Question
      Roots
      A-Hunting We Will Go
      Get Real
      Seoul Mates
      Dateline: Cicely
      Our Tribe
      Things Become Extinct
      Burning Down the House
      Democracy in America
      Three Amigos
      Lost and Found
      My Mother, My Sister
      Wake Up Call
      The Final Frontier
      It Happened in Juneau
      Our Wedding
      Cicely
   Season 4
   Season 5
   Season 6

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
   Season 1
   Season 2
   Season 3
   Season 4
   Season 5
   Season 6
   Season 7

You can cut and paste episode lists from the 'net so you don't have to type them in by hand. I tend to watch shows on DVD in order within each show (but skipping around from show to show), but this is easily adapted to watching shows out of order.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 1:17 PM on May 6, 2008

http://myepisodes.com
posted by snownoid at 3:00 PM on May 6, 2008

Personally, I prefer a binary search when returning to a set of episodes that I haven't seen in awhile.
posted by odinsdream at 5:57 PM on May 6, 2008

Maybe you need to look up TED in Google (it's on the front page)
posted by charlie7691 at 11:15 PM on May 6, 2008

this might work too: http://www.mytvrss.com/
posted by nitsuj at 3:49 PM on May 11, 2008

http://www.ted.com/? Don't see much.
Thanks to the real answers - obviously, I can do this in a text file (Currently in my google notebook)
posted by lrodman at 5:46 AM on May 15, 2008