https://simkl.com/lists/

Custom Lists

🎉 Introducing Custom Lists, Auto Lists, and Tags: A New Era of Personalization on Simkl! 🎉

Dear Simkl Community,

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Custom Lists, a brand-new feature designed to enhance your experience with Movies, TV shows, and Anime on Simkl! Building upon our beloved Simkl V2 Beta, Custom Lists provide an even more personalized way to organize, share, and discover content.

Simkl now has Watchlists and Custom lists https://simkl.com/lists/.

Watchlists and Custom lists are both essential features of Simkl that help members organize their TV shows, movies, and anime. Although they serve similar purposes, there are some key differences between the two:

What are Watchlists on Simkl?

Watchlists are a core feature of Simkl that allows members to categorize and manage their TV shows, movies, and anime. By adding content to a watchlist, members can easily keep track of what they’re watching, plan to watch, or have already completed. Watchlists also help members stay organized and make it easy to pick up where they left off when they return to a show or movie and have specific rules on how notifications are handled.

Default Watchlist Lists on Simkl

• Watching
• Plan to watch
• On hold
• Completed
• Dropped

You can find full documentation of how Watchlists work on Simkl at https://docs.simkl.org/how-to-use-simkl/basic-features/watchlists-and-custom-lists

What are the new Custom Lists on Simkl?

• Create Your Own Custom Lists: Whether it’s your favorite romantic comedies, must-watch TV series, or an anime marathon list, Custom Lists allow you to categorize content exactly how you want it.

• Unlimited Customization: Simkl’s Custom Lists provide you with unparalleled control and flexibility to organize your media library. This feature has been designed with member preferences in mind, and it offers various customization options:

1. Naming and Describing: You can assign specific names and descriptions to your lists, allowing you to identify and categorize them effortlessly.
2. Tagging and Note-taking: Add relevant tags and personal notes to your lists, ensuring that you can quickly recall specific details or thoughts about your media.
3. Reordering: Arrange the items in your list in the order that suits you best, whether it’s by preference, genre, or any other criteria.
4. Background Selection: Choose from a selection of attractive backgrounds for your list, or upload your own to add a personal touch.
5. Complete Control: Your media library is governed by your rules. Customize it in a way that resonates with your tastes and interests.

• Regular or Auto lists based on multiple filters.

• Explore Different Sharing Options: With the ability to set your custom lists as Public, Private, or Unlisted, you have complete control over who sees your content. Share your lists with the entire Simkl community or keep them confidential for your personal use.

• List Discovery: When custom lists are shared publicly, other members can explore them. This allows people to connect over common interests and helps them find new content they might enjoy, building a better community.

• Follow other Member’s lists or Official lists: By following a list, you can easily see updates and stay connected with what others are adding to their lists or recommending when browsing the “My Lists” section. Recently updated lists will move up so you won’t miss anything new added to the lists you’re following.

• Pin lists to the top in “My Lists”: You can focus on specific lists without losing where they are by pinning them to the top. All pins are private and only you can see them.

• Create with Friends: Collaborative Custom Lists enable you to work with friends, family, or anyone in the Simkl community to craft lists together. Perfect for joint viewing parties or shared interests!

• Integration with Watchlists: Seamlessly blend your Custom Lists with your existing Watchlists, for a streamlined and cohesive browsing experience. See the count and percentage of movies you watched in any custom list.

• Suggestions: This tool lets other members give you ideas for what to add to your lists. Whether you’re making a list of favorite movies or planning an anime-watching marathon, Suggestions can help you find things you might like but didn’t know about. It’s like getting tips from friends who know what you enjoy. With Suggestions, making lists becomes more fun and personal, and it might even lead you to discover something new and exciting. Try it out, and see how it changes the way you explore media on Simkl!

• See who suggested which item and quickly approve to add to the main list.

• Easy to Use: Simkl’s Custom Lists have a simple design that everyone can use. You can make, manage, and find lists without any trouble. It’s fun and easy, whether you’re new or have been using Simkl for a while. You can quickly organize your favorite shows, work on lists with friends, or find new things to watch with Movies, TV shows, and Anime on Simkl.
• 3 ways to add a show or a movie to the custom lists:
  - Using list edit, search to add a movie
  - From any show or movie page using the “Add to Custom List” button.
  - From any list of movies (in V2) using the “Add to Custom List” in the item menu.

Within these lists, you can even arrange your selections, moving your most-loved movies or shows to the top. It’s a personalized way to keep track of what you love most!

• Import lists from many different sources: You can bring in lists from different places into Simkl. If you have favorite shows or movies saved somewhere else, you can quickly move them to Simkl. This makes it easy to keep all your favorite things in one spot, and it’s simple to do. This feature underscores Simkl’s commitment to providing an efficient and customized experience, tailored to meet the diverse needs of its community.

• Take Notes: Add Public and Private notes to list items or a private note for the list. Each note for the same item is unique to the list.
• PS: Our older Memo feature is displayed in all custom lists that you browse. So you can have a Movie note for the list as well as a Memo.

• Explore Our Official Curated Lists: Each one is carefully selected and handpicked by our experienced Editorial Team to provide you with the best recommendations and insights into various genres and themes.

https://simkl.com/lists/official/

• List Tags: Add tags to your lists and automatic tag cloud generation from your Watchlists right in your profile to find things faster. You can easily see and use the tags you use most often. It makes finding what you like quicker and simpler.

• List Cloning Feature: With the simple capability to duplicate any existing list in mere seconds, you can now effortlessly make it your very own. This functionality not only streamlines the personalization process but also allows you to harness pre-existing structures, adapting them to your unique needs and preferences. Experience the ease and efficiency of cloning lists, tailored exclusively for your convenience.

• Full markdown support: Utilize the full power of Markdown formatting in list descriptions. This incredible feature allows for the seamless incorporation of various text styles, links, images, and more, providing a rich and engaging experience for both creators and viewers. Whether crafting a simple list or a comprehensive guide, you can use this functionality to create visually appealing and informative content. The best part? You’re not confined to a small character limit. With support for up to 100,000 characters, your creativity knows no bounds. Explore, innovate, and engage with Simkl’s Markdown support in your lists, and take your content to new heights.

V2 BETA is now available to all PRO and VIP members. 🥳

Custom Lists are built on our newest V2 Beta engine. That means that to be able to create new custom lists right now, you’ll need access to V2 Beta as well, so we’re opening up V2 Beta to more members. PRO Members now have full access to V2 Beta! Don’t worry, you can still read and follow other members' custom lists if you’re on a free plan.

Auto Lists

Custom Auto Lists on Simkl

Simkl provides a feature called Auto Lists that automates the process of creating custom lists.

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With traditional list-making, you need to manually search for a show or movie and then add it one by one to your custom list. This can be a tedious process, especially when dealing with large quantities of media.

What are Auto Lists?

Auto Lists, on the other hand, are designed to simplify and automate this process. Rather than adding each item manually, you can create an Auto List using filters that can automatically curate and manage a list for you. This is ideal for members who want to create themed lists, genre-specific lists, or even lists based on certain ratings, actors, or directors (available in V2 later, when Actor’s data is added to Simkl).

Here’s how it works:

1. You define the criteria for your Auto List using filters. These filters could be based on a variety of parameters such as genre, release year, ratings, actors, directors, and more.
2. Once you set your filters, Simkl will scan all available shows and movies and add the ones that meet your criteria to your Auto List.
3. The Auto List is dynamic. This means it will automatically update whenever a new show or movie that fits your criteria is added to Simkl’s database. So you don’t have to worry about constantly updating your list with new additions.

In short, Auto Lists on Simkl can help you create and manage personalized lists with much greater ease and efficiency.

Few examples of how you can use Auto Lists:

• Filter by MCU tag to get a list of all Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies.
• Filter by Korean Language and Netflix Network to get a list of all Korean original shows on Netflix.
• Filter by the number of IMDB votes and minimum Movie budget that are released on DVD.

Collections

Lists can be grouped into collections using their Title.

How can you insert buttons in a list that link to other lists within a collection?

When you add 2 or more lists with the same title, you can organize them and automatically link to each other by adding (Button Name) at the end of the list with the same title.

Some examples:

• Star Wars Franchise (TV Shows)
• Star Wars Franchise (Movies)

Will create the following buttons inside each list that link to each other:

Some examples of how you can use titles as collections:

• Movies I watched this year (2021)
• Movies I watched this year (2022)
• Movies I watched this year (2023)
• My favorite TV shows (Horror)
• My favorite TV shows (Sci-fi)
• All of my 10 stars Ranked (TV Shows)
• All of my 10 stars Ranked (Anime)
• All of my 10 stars Ranked (Movies)
• Decade Ranked (2020s)
• Decade Ranked (2010s)
• Decade Ranked (2000s)
• Decade Ranked (1990s)
• Decade Ranked (1980s)
• Decade Ranked (1970s)
• Decade Ranked (1960s)
• Decade Ranked (1950s)
• Top 10 movies of (2023)
• Top 10 movies of (2022)
• Top 10 movies of (2021)
• Star Wars movies (Ranked)
• Star Wars movies (Watch order)

Get Started Today! Visit https://simkl.com/lists/

Ready to take control of your viewing experience? Head over to Simkl and start crafting your Custom Lists now. Whether you’re a seasoned cinephile or a casual viewer, Custom Lists offer a whole new way to engage with your favorite content.

We can’t wait to see the incredible lists you create!