@Rycaut I think I told you a long time ago that I would let you know if I found a solution that worked for me for maintaining my to-watch movie list ... (Not sure if it was really a long time ago or not, but it seems like it ...)

So just letting you know that I found one with Obsidian 😛 I know you already saw that post but in case you want details on how set things up or any help with setting things up yourself, lemme know ...

I recall you mentioning that you had a collection of Apple Notes and if it helps, Obsidian seems to import Apple Notes fairly easily. It imported in all of my Apple Notes with very little effort and the only thing I miss from Apple Notes is the ability to collaborate/share certain notes with my wife.

But even that might be solvable since I see some solutions out there which might work ... Or, there is the paid option from Obsidian itself — but I'm cheap/paranoid and would prefer a self-hosted option 🙂

@f very cool! I’m going to take a look. I do like shared notes with my wife and I also appreciate the ability to lock specific notes which I find useful. But yes I’ve wanted to check out Obsidian for a while now. Was going to take a look when I have some time tonight or later this week.

If I have any questions I’ll ping you - it’s good inspiration to experiment myself. Have a few projects ongoing at the moment which may be good excuses to try it for them as well

@Rycaut Yep, having things to experiment with is always a great motivator 🙂

I was using Obsidian for simple note-taking but while I knew it had plugins, I had not looked at the plugins or considered how it might enhance the functionality till I looked into storing my movies on Obsidian …

There are several posts online about storing a list of movies on Obsidian and so you should have no trouble setting it up, but the basic idea is to use a couple of plugins — QuickAdd and Dataview — to get things going.

In my case, with QuickAdd I can simply use a keyboard shortcut to bring up a search dialog where I type the name of a movie, have it show me a list of matches, pick the movie I want from the list and have it added as a new note in Obsidian automatically *and* have the gallery populated with a card for the new entry.

So I find it really, really helpful/easy 😀

@f that sounds like tech working now we want it to! I’ll take a look. Curious if I can use a similar technique for other lists of things I track (like importing my Goodreads reading history and then updating tracking my library of books and similar things like ttrpgs and comics (which when I start looking at digital and physical becomes challenging)

@Rycaut I believe you should be able to do exactly that 🙂 I saw some plugins which would fetch info for books, comics etc. as well.

Even if the plugin isn’t there, as long as an API exists, my impression is that you can use the QuickAdd plugin to fetch the data via the API, massage it to your liking and add it to a new file/document the same way the movie stuff works.

Again, if you run into any issues, would be glad to help out in any way since this kind of thing is what I live for 😛

@Rycaut I just saw this plugin while looking for something and remembered that you might like it since you were talking about importing your Goodreads history 🙂

https://github.com/MichaBrugger/booksidian_plugin

@f very cool. Thanks! Looks definitely of interest.