| If this thread already exists let me know, and I'll close this. I'm new and have not got into this community much. So, before you found MAL, how did you keep track of the shows you watched? I still use my old method even though most of my stuff is on this site. Just an old habit I guess. :P http://imgur.com/i6DT4T0 |
| I used my handy dandy notepad. |
| I only watched one series at a time |
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| I wrote them on my hand. and now I have cancer. FUCK |
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| Created a memo no my mobile and updated it everyday with my progress in each anime/manga |
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| I used notepad, my anime list was okay but my manga list was too much. A friend recommended mal and here I am. |
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JD2411 said: This. In fact, I actually enjoyed anime as a whole more before I started keeping track of it on MAL.I didn't keep track of anime prior to using mal |
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| I didn't. I wrote down the manga series I liked in a notebook at some point though, and this list has been very useful to me since then. Once I tried to create a list on baka-updates, but I was too lazy for it. |
| Microsoft excel |
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| Just through my mind. I didn't really have what I was watching written down anywhere. |
| Used aniDB list. Haven't updated it once after I switched to mal. |
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| I didn't. I actually never thought about keeping track of the Anime's I watched until I came across this site. That Is why some Animes on my list don't have a specific date for when I started/finished. I had to guess the year for the Anime when I added the series to my list. |
| Used a notepad, with PTW - And completed anime |
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| Memory. u.u And now I pay my dues. |
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TheNaturalPerm said: I wrote them on my hand. and now I have cancer. FUCK Omg, this is serious? |
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| I just used my memory. I only stop on even numbers so its not too hard. I was ecstatic when i found MAL :D |
| Animenewsnetwork.com, Anime-Planet.com, and AniDB.net. Also .txt files and a spreadsheet before I found those sites, though I no longer update the spreadsheet. Prior to mid-2005 or so, my anime-watching was pretty much limited to what I bought on DVD or borrowed from friends, so it wasn't hard to keep track of without specialized databases. |
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| Like others said, I would only watch one series at a time when I was younger, haha. Remembering where I was when it came to longer 30+ episode anime was always a pain and I would either write it down on a piece of paper or just try to remember. I started really watching more anime again (after like 6-7 years of just watching a series every few months) and I had no idea how to keep track and a lot of people on twitter suggested this site~ I *think* there was a site similar to this when I was younger? I tried using that but never remembered |
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| I used anime-planet, but MAL is much better because you can kep track of your hentai too. |
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| I didn't, and now i'm having problems figuring out what I watched and what episode I was on. That's why I'm glad I found this place, but problem is I don't enjoy anime like I used to when I first got into it. Haruhi Suzumiya and Naruto is what sparked my interest in anime, but I've watched so many boring shows compared to them that I can't find a good anime anymore. |
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| Are you kidding me? I've watched probably about 50% more anime than the ones I have on MAL - and I keep adding them because over time I've... forgotten the titles. |
DarkEsper said: I didn't, and now i'm having problems figuring out what I watched and what episode I was on. That's why I'm glad I found this place, but problem is I don't enjoy anime like I used to when I first got into it. Haruhi Suzumiya and Naruto is what sparked my interest in anime, but I've watched so many boring shows compared to them that I can't find a good anime anymore. Very off topic: You should watch Darker Than Black. :P |
| i used the note app on my ipod to keep track. still have that old note |
| Just because you know how to use a torrent does not give you the god given right to pirate. My actual list: https://kitsu.io/users/mattbenz99/library check out my youtube channel for my review: https://www.youtube.com/user/mattbenz99 |
| Off topic. is there a site where I can track the video games I have played without it being connected to my Stam/Xbox Live/ PSN account? |
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sullynathan said: Off topic. is there a site where I can track the video games I have played without it being connected to my Stam/Xbox Live/ PSN account? Not to my knowledge. |
| Before I knew MAL existed, I never recorded the shows I'd already watched, I just wrote down a list of shows I wanted to watch on a blank piece of paper. I had around 20 shows on that paper before making a MAL. |
| before finding this site, i didn't even know what anime was. I only watched Naruto and then a friend of mine showed me this list of cartoons called "anime" on MAL. So i only was watching Naruto thanks to cartoon network. |
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| i don't if it pops in my head that i watched a anime i put it in my panel |
| Used to keep a notebook now that I'm on MAL I'm inputting all the stuff on my notebook onto here. |
| Wrote them on a paper, just like the old days. However I don't remember the exact date I started and finished them though. |
| Browser history :) |
| Just Monika. |
| With a piece of paper i would hide in my car and when i went to work i would update it |
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| By memorizing them |
sullynathan said: Off topic. is there a site where I can track the video games I have played without it being connected to my Stam/Xbox Live/ PSN account? http://myvideogamelist.com/ |
JD2411 said: I didn't keep track of anime prior to using mal That and the only anime I watched were anime series that was on the front page of anime streaming sites like anilinkz, its how I ended up watching a lot of ecchi stuff before I found MAL. |
| Manga --> Microsoft Excel.. I had three spreadsheets, one for Plan to Read, one for Completed and one for Reading. :P For anime, I wrote it notepad LOL I didn't watch that much so thats why |
Shadow55 said: Thanks for the link, didn't know such a site exist. :>sullynathan said: Off topic. is there a site where I can track the video games I have played without it being connected to my Stam/Xbox Live/ PSN account? http://myvideogamelist.com/ |
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| Before joining this site, the only anime I watched was Death Note and Elfen Lied so I didn't really need to keep track. I was a very undisciplined anime watcher. I took like four months to finish Elfen Lied, mostly because I watched one episode in one day and I would remember about it just in the next week. Now I watch anime way more often -- like everyday -- and I don't know if I should be happy about this. |
| Well, back then when I started to watch anime on a seasonal basis, I never felt the urge to sign up on MAL since I could just use a Word document or a Excel sheet to catalog everything I watched. It was pretty handy as you could tailor it fairly easy to your own needs. The lists here are a bit difficult to customize, unless you know how to use the CSS editor (which I don't :P). |
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| I don't really think I did besides just going "oh yeah I've seen that" if I came across something I'd already seen. The total number of series I'd probably seen back then was maybe a hundred if that so it wasn't really hard. |
| I wrote it in my phone's notes |
| I didn't and it was chaos, but in retrospect I was a much freer person... |
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| I used Access, then ANN, and when it started to not have titles I'd seen I looked for other places to supplement it, like here and Anime Planet. |
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
SanaeSnake said: I used my handy dandy notepad. What this guy, and many other said. I still do, it's a habbit I guess. I don't like using the internet or XML sheets because my computer takes long to load a damn XML sheet. |
| Memory. |
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| Wrote them in a book. |
| "Let Justice Be Done!" My Theme Fight again, fight again for justice! |
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