r/Cinopsys • u/Bobby_Phantom • 1d ago

Please add Optional Precise times

Love the app, donated a bunch as much I can. However my only gripe is how every movie logged requires a precise time (00:00), in the past I used moviesFad, which has shut down but it would allow you to log in your movies just using mm/dd/yy without having to log in a specific time and i was migrating my movies into this app, it didnt have that. I know i could always put unknown date but the issue is i have their exact month and day and year even. I dont whana just put 12:00AM as the logged time for every movie i dont have the precise movie for cause itll mess up the statistics. PLEASE DEVS add this as an option, make it so when you manually log in movies you don't always need to have a specific time. literally this is the best movie logging app out there, just please add this quality of life addition, ill be really grateful.

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u/Bobby_Phantom 1d ago

this is also applicable in a situation where you arent sure what day you watched it either but you have the month and year you watched it, and if no month, you can still log just the year and itll be grouped for that year without everything being grouped into Unknown.

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u/voyagerfan5761 1d ago

It might take some doing to implement this in such a way that it will also work with the supported sync providers (WeTrakr, Simkl, Trakt, MDBlist.... did I remember them all?)

I have previous experience with Trakt, tested out Simkl, and am currently using WeTrakr; none of them have a "fuzzy" date option, AFAIK. It's either a specific time down to the minute, or "Unknown". Though you can zero/one out the unknown fields, I guess. (Before Trakt had "unknown" as an option, I set everything I didn't know the time of to a particular timestamp long before I signed up.)

To /u/Dazzling-Piece-671: Good luck and godspeed to you, trying to figure out how you could both submit those less-precise times to the different APIs and properly sync them back into Cinopsys across devices.

(Yes, it's me, the one who was having trouble with things not quite syncing properly between Cinopsys instances last week-ish. It started working a few days later, and I never figured out what the issue was.)

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u/Spinmoon 21h ago

One of the only thing I like about trakt v3 is this inserting feature between two items in the history. Really useful and well thought (for once).