1/19/24 - Natively Lists!
Browseable, shareable, customizable lists are now live on Natively! You can now create lists of books, movies and tv shows and share them with your friends.
Finding Lists
You can find the lists via the 'Lists' link in the main site navigation. There you can browse lists, filter lists by difficulty and search lists by title, tag and user!
The lists contain your own custom created tags, ordered items and you can include notes.
Lists are also showcased on your profile page. You can find your liked lists here as well.
Creating a list
Creating a list is pretty darn easy! You can specify your privacy level, create custom tags, order your items as you want and write notes on everything.
All text fields support the standard markdown syntax if you'd like to richly style
You can tag items however you want. We do have autocomplete while you type if you're looking to use more popular tags
If you're targeting a specific level range, use the standardized level tags. The list search is configured to look for these tags when a user filters by difficulty.
While we may also look at the item difficulty ratings in the future, right now we are simply looking at level tags. It is not required.
Add items from your books & videos library by a simple text search. If you'd like to add items that are not in your library, see the other addition process below.
You can order your items however you want, quickly and easily.
You can also write notes on everything. If you have a review and/or rating of the item, it will be auto included.
Adding to a list from general search & item pages
Click the 'add to custom lists' option on the status widget and you will be able to add & remove that item from your lists
These items do *not* need to be in your library!
If you choose to create a list, that item will be auto included during the creation process.
Custom Tags (formerly Custom Lists)
What formerly used to be known as 'Custom Lists' in your library are now called 'Custom Tags'
These tags can be selected multiple at a time now and you'll notice they are simply filters... they do not appear as lists on their own.
In case you forgot how to add a custom tag to an item, simply go to the 'additional options' popup, and you can add tags there.
I'm really hopeful that these lists become an awesome source of recommendations, especially in beta languages where the user content is more sparse.
Next, I will probably be focused on four things:
- A few list tweaks (allowing series as a list item, csv backups).
- Adding French.. maybe English
- Improving Book & Series Page display
- Adding Swimlanes (rows of bucketed content) to search pages as the default view. See Anilist browse/search as an example.
I must admit that my product roadmap is currently a bit in flux right now, so take these 'Next Up' proclamations as a bit uncertain. Growth has become a larger priority this year due to (a tiny bit) of competitive pressure, so the roadmap is liable to change faster than normal.
As always, if you have any feedback, please let us know in the Product Updates thread or, if it's about a language beta, in one of the beta threads - Korean, Spanish, German
Happy reading (and watching)!
Brandon