Definitely do a call on the Open thread as more beanies will see it than on a fan wall. I only noticed the updates here because someone liked my comment above nearly a year later I don’t even know how they found this post.

Yes! Your spreadsheet is actually what inspired me to start my own — before that, I was just tracking it on a simple document. Mine is still incredibly incomplete — I was hoping to create sheets to pull the data and compile a list of my most watches actors etc., but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. I’ve had it in the back of my mind, though, that I need to re-reference yours for ideas about how to do that — using Filter, if I remember correctly. 🙂

I fully understand the problem of lots of motivation and very little time. I love the idea of recruiting on the open thread! Before we do that, though, it might be helpful to think through what this process would look like. What would we be asking other Beanies to do? It might be easier to figure out some details via email (or whatever easy communication platform you’re comfortable with!) before we ask for others’ help — unless we would need others’ help to figure out what the task is? @Healer‘s and I were recently talking about some data compiling, which is how I originally found this missed comment. Healer’s, are you interested in being a part of this endeavor? (In short, the goal would be to clean up the genres list on the Top 10 spreadsheet so they are more usable in data analysis.)

🫘Beansprout🌱 for inspiring others to step up their game which will ultimately benefit the Beanie community.

@kmromrell sorry, I saw your comment just now, because you actually tagged someone else whose username is the same as my display handle. My tag name is claire2009.

Yes, count me in. Sometimes my reply may be delayed due to real-life responsibilities, but I’m committed to finishing what is started.

I had to do an absurd amount of history tracking in order to find a lot of my start dates.😅 Luckily, I always added a drama with a brief review to a Google doc when I finished, so I had a decent list of those dates. The rest were compiled with reference to my Netflix history, browser history (thank goodness I search the cast so often when starting a new drama!), texts with friends, calendar events, memories of surrounding activities… It was an endeavor, and a few of the dates are more approximate than I would have liked. Now, though, I love to look back and see what I was watching at specific times! (And thank you for the Beansprout!)

Oops, and just realized I missed your questions when replying before. Yes, “Watches” is both rewatches and dropped watches — ish. It isn’t really accurate to dropped watches, but I have the data count a dropped watch as “.5” of a watch (since I only consider it dropped if I make it a significant portion of the way through the drama). I add comments to the “Status” column to tell myself exactly which episode I dropped on, but I don’t think other viewers can see comments when shared in view-only mode.

No worries! I started this chat and then promptly worked a 20-hour day, so this might not have been the best timing for me either. We can check in later. 🙂

I’m also ok with whatsapp or email or other tools that you guys think are best. I’m not goot at planning but pretty good at leg work, so just give your command and I’ll follow 🙂 Another thing is that I basically watch less than other active beanies here, so there’re quite a few weecaps, recaps and hangouts I’m not actively participating in. But it’s good that that doesn’t hinder the tracking down of data on DB.