shynkro_watchlog-obsidian-plugin/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to WatchLog are documented here.

[2.2.0] - 2026-07-05

Added

• Per-list tab color - each custom list tab can now be assigned a color, applied to its tab name. Set it via a color picker in Table settings (renamed from "Edit columns").
• Per-option colors for select columns - each option of a select-type column can be given its own color, defined per table; the colored badge reflects the option's color in both the cell and the selection dropdown.
• Custom colors everywhere - the color picker now offers the 8 presets plus a full-spectrum custom color, with a built-in reset-to-default. Available for Custom Lists tab/option colors and Reading field colors alike.
• Column resizing - Columns now can be resized
• TSV export - Export now offers a format chooser: copy as TSV (pastes cleanly into Google Sheets / Excel as columns) or as Markdown (for pasting into notes).
• Import rows - a new Import button lets you paste tab-separated data copied from a spreadsheet to append rows to the current list
• Select-all tick - a tick in the table header checks or unchecks all visible rows at once.
• Now you can select default content type for adding titles - pick a fixed type or * Last type used (remembers your last choice) in Settings → Watchlist.
• Richer note frontmatter — Watchlist notes now carry review, dates, episode duration, IDs, community rating, a single resolved poster, and more; Reading notes add cover, external link, and modified date. Makes notes portable and .base-friendly.
• "Rewrite frontmatter on all notes" button (Settings → General) to apply the enriched frontmatter to existing notes - chunked, cancelable, preserves note bodies.
• Cover thumbnails in search results when adding titles, books, and manga, so you can tell same-named entries apart.
• Director & cast fields on Watchlist titles (director, cast — both string[]). Cast is hardcoded-capped at 4 across every source, so a title looks identical regardless of which API supplied it.
• Lazy backfill on modal open: opening TitleDetailModal for an older title missing the fields triggers a one-time fetch keyed off the IMDb id in its external link (prefers active API, falls back to the other keyed one). Persists through a new DataManager.updateCredits() that writes both data.json and the note frontmatter in one operation — not the silent poster path.
• UI: shared renderCreditsRows renders Director/Cast in the modal (below the stats box) and in the List view expanded row (under the "Not started" line). Names render as clickable chips (theme-variable CSS).
• Click-to-filter: clicking a name routes it into the existing search bar — visible, clearable, and matching typed-search behaviour.
• YouTube trailers — auto-fetched at add-time (TMDB, Jikan, AniList; OMDb has none), stored per title, shown as a red YouTube icon on the detail row and saved to note frontmatter. Manual override field in Edit. Existing titles get a refresh button to fetch on demand.
• Added the cover image to the left of the title detail modal (Movie/Series), with the full header block (title + badges + stats) moved to its right, mirroring the Reading modal layout. Letter-placeholder fallback when no poster exists.

Improved

• Add-title form compacted (Episodes/Duration and Status/Priority paired onto single rows), giving the search results more room.
• Dashboard grid now adapts to panel width on mobile (3→2→1 columns); desktop unchanged.
• Mobile tab bar switched to icons so all tabs fit on one row without scrolling.

Changed

• Switching a column to select now populates its options from the distinct values already present in that column's cells (in order of first appearance), preserving existing cell values instead of resurrecting stale options.
• Dashboard — default card style is now rectangles for new installs.
• Edit modal — Status/Priority, Total episodes/Ep. duration, and Date started/Date finished now share rows; added the "Add to group / create new group" section.

Fixed

• Cover art accuracy - posters are now matched by media type (Movie vs TV Show), preferring the correct release year, and resolved directly via IMDb id when available, instead of blindly taking the first multi-search result. Fixes cases where the wrong image was pulled (e.g. a film getting its TV series' poster). Applies to both TMDB and OMDb.
• Watchlist notes no longer overwrite content you wrote by hand directly in the .md file.
• Title frontmatter now escapes special characters - titles or links containing : no longer break the YAML.
• Dashboard no longer overflows off-screen on mobile.
• Fixed the whole view dragging sideways like a loose sheet on mobile.
• Cards view — selection now works (click a card to select, 3px purple border on selected); fixed the flicker when entering/exiting selection mode (no more full tab rebuild).
• Fixed the progressively-climbing CLS on scroll in Cards View.

[2.1.0] - 2026-06-17

Added

• Open note button — a new file-text icon in the title detail modal opens the title's .md note directly in Obsidian. Available in both the Watchlist and Reading (Books + Manga) modals.
• Mobile toolbar toggle — on mobile, a chevron button collapses the action buttons behind a toggle so the search bar stays usable by default. Search ↔ actions swap with a crossfade. Added to both the Watchlist and Reading tabs.
• "Season watched" log event — ticking an entire season now records a single summary "Season X watched" entry in the Log, but only when that action completes the season.
• Add chooser modal — the "+ add" button now opens a small chooser offering "Add from URL" and "Add manually / via API", consolidating the two add paths into one entry point (desktop and mobile).

Fixed

• Reading titles not appearing on mobile.

[2.0.0] - 2026-06-07

Added

• Added Cards sub-tab in Watchlist with a responsive poster card grid

  • Poster images auto-fetched from Jikan, TMDB, Google Books or OMDb and cached locally

• Added: AniList API as alternative anime source; toggle between Jikan and AniList in Settings

• Added: Community Ratings; IMDb, MAL, AniList, or TMDB scores displayed alongside personal star rating with manual refresh and 30-day auto-refresh

• Added: API routing by type; configurable API mapping per custom type in Settings; locked defaults for Anime, Movie, TV Show

• Added: manual Poster URL override field in Edit modal

• Added: "Groups only" filter in Watchlist; show only group headers, hide standalone titles

• Added: "All" toggle per filter section; quick select/deselect all within Type, Status, Rating, Priority, Group

• Added: status dropdown directly on expanded title row (no need to open Edit modal)

• Added: "Today" button on Date Watched field (auto-fills only when empty)

• Added: Skip Episodes; mark episodes as skippable (filler, recaps, etc.) per season

  • Define skip episodes in season syntax: "Season 1: 48 (33-37,42)"
  • Skipped episodes shown with purple border (#6b2972) and dash (—) marker
  • 3-state click cycle for skip-defined episodes: skipped → watched → empty
  • Skip stats displayed in Edit modal: "X to skip · Y to watch" next to Total Episodes and below Seasons
  • Season headers show skip count (e.g. "East Blue Saga 48 eps (5 to skip)")
  • Progress calculations exclude skipped episodes from totals

• Added: status badge moved to the top of the Watchlist detail modal, inline next to the title type, with a colored click-to-change dropdown (matching Reading)

• Added: Upcoming due count in the status bar; shows "N due" with the plugin icon, hidden when zero, click opens the Upcoming tab

• Added: Settings toggle "Show Upcoming count in status bar" (General, on by default)

• Added: Reading section in Quick Info with help entries; updated API & Search entry to reflect current APIs (AniList, Google Books)

• Added new "Watchlist" settings tab (renamed from Folders)

• Added Reading integration into Dashboard; new Books and Manga cards at the end of the grid • "left" counts Reading + Plan to read; To be released excluded from the calculation • Progress bar shows pages/chapters read of total, with an inline pages / chapters · vol line below • Reflected in both Rectangles and Circles dashboard styles

• Added unified Total/Time card; Total, Time watched, and Time remaining merged into one card with three equal segments

• Added Reading in Upcoming; titles already in Reading can be added via the "+ add" finder (now searches Reading), shown with Book/Manga badges

• Added Reading schedule modal; derived from the Anime scheduler; no Time field, Current/Total chapters + volumes, recurrence and auto-increment, 0/1 total treated as a single release date

• Added Reading in Custom Lists; name-cell autocomplete now searches Reading alongside Watchlist

• Added Drafts add gate; the Add button opens a choice modal (Add in Watchlist / Add book / Add manga), each opening the correct modal with the draft text prefilled

• Added Release date field to the Reading modal, inline next to Added; manually editable with optional API import (Google Books / Jikan)

• Added Reading colors section in Settings → Customize (below Season colors); color pickers for Manga and Book

• Added: Show hint banners toggle in Settings > General; hide/show informational banners in Upcoming, Custom Lists, and Drafts

• Added: Auto-populate Time column in Custom Lists; number columns can pull remaining watch time (in minutes) from Watchlist titles with exact name match

  • Enable via ⏱ toggle in Edit Columns for any number-type column
  • Values are persisted and only re-fetched on demand via ↻ refresh icon in column header
  • Titles not found in Watchlist show "Not found"

• Added Log as standalone top-level tab (extracted from Watchlist); unified timeline for both Watchlist and Reading events • Vertical timeline with colored dots and connector lines • Day-grouped entries with date headers • Action color coding: green (Completed/Watched), blue (Added), red (Deleted), amber (Status/Rating changed) • Source filter toolbar: All / Watchlist / Reading

• Added Reading tab with two sub-tabs: Books and Manga; fully independent from the existing Watchlist

• Added separate reading.json storage with dedicated ReadingDataManager for CRUD operations, change listeners, and schema migrations

• Added Book tracking with fields: title, author, status, rating, pages read/total, chapters read/total, cover URL, Open Library ID, vault page link, dates, custom fields

• Added Manga tracking with fields: title, author, status, rating, chapters read/total, volumes read/total, cover URL, MAL ID, vault page link, dates, custom fields

• Added Card grid view for both Books and Manga with responsive layout, cover images, status dots, progress bars, and author display

• Added Detail modal with cover, title, author, status badge, rating, Open note button, vault page controls (Change/Open with filename display and full path tooltip)

• Added Custom fields system per sub-tab: user-defined columns (text / number / select) with per-column color picker (8 preset colors)

  • Two display styles with toggle: Fill (key cell background) and Border (key cell border with rounded corners)
  • Inline editing in Detail modal (text input, number input, or select dropdown)

• Added Manage Columns modal with horizontal row layout: drag handle, name input, type dropdown, color dot picker, options input (for select type), delete button — all aligned inline

• Added Favorite Quotes section in Detail modal: parsed from ## Quotes in the auto-generated .md file, displayed as styled callout blocks with page/chapter reference; Add quote inline form

• Added Auto-generated .md files per title at WatchLog/Reading/Books/<Title>.md or WatchLog/Reading/Manga/<Title>.md with YAML frontmatter, ## Notes, and ## Quotes sections; frontmatter syncs on edit

• Added Jikan manga lookup in Add Manga modal: search by title or MAL ID, auto-fill title/author/chapters/volumes/cover/MAL ID

• Added default reading folder path setting (default WatchLog/Reading)

Improved

• Improved: Custom Lists; Edit Columns modal redesigned as horizontal cards
• Improved: # and Name columns shown as grayed-out/non-editable in Edit Columns modal
• Improved: Edit Columns modal wider to fit card layout
• Improved: Cards sub-tab is now the default Watchlist view
• Improved: "History" sub-tabs renamed to "Log" in Watchlist and Upcoming
• Improved: API settings tab restructured into three faded callout sections — Movies & TV Shows, Anime, Books — with consistent key/test/status layout
• Improved: shared danger/success button colors consolidated into reusable utility classes (red borders for delete/remove, green for add), with softened resting borders
• Improved: Backup/Restore now covers all three data files (watch, reading, history) via a versioned format, with legacy backups still restorable
• Improved: removed the Custom Lists mobile input modal; tapping a cell now uses inline editing directly on both mobile and desktop (the modal was a workaround for the now-fixed keyboard bug)

Fixed

• Fixed: titles inside groups now appear correctly when filtering by status
• Fixed: priority is automatically cleared when a title is marked as Completed
• Fixed: mobile keyboard layout bug; when the keyboard opened on iOS and Android, the scrollable content area collapsed and a blank/dark region covered most of the view above the keyboard. Content was present but hidden behind it.
• Fixed: Custom Lists — adding a new column no longer resets row checkboxes
• Fixed: custom field fill mode text color now black for readability

Performance

• Performance: optimized episode click handling; direct DOM updates with debounced save, eliminated redundant re-renders
• Performance: centralized save pipeline, batch CSV imports, debounced inputs, Map-based lookups, dead code removal, listener leak fixes
• Performance: the keyboard layout fix is debounced via requestAnimationFrame (one write per frame), with redundant-write skipping, no duplicate observers, and full teardown on view close

Removed

• Removed the "Default view" setting; the panel now always opens on Dashboard
• Removed the standalone "Folders" settings tab (its contents moved into the new "Watchlist" tab)

[1.1.0] - 2026-05-12

Changed

• Minimum Obsidian version bumped to 1.7.2

Fixed

• Performance improvements for the Drafts tab; smoother rendering and reduced UI lag during list operations.
• Simplified CsvModal.ts CSV export to use document.createElement directly
• File names with forbidden characters are now sanitized in the title property, fixing broken notes for titles containing characters such as :

[1.0.9] - 2026-04-26

Initial public release