Here’s everything to set your watchlist up and how to use it.

The watchlist is managed as a table (database) where the each table property holds information for the media.

Automatic updates are managed for each title in your watchlist by the integration.

Step 1: Grab the template

Duplicate the template into your Notion

• Click the link 🔽

Watchlist

• When on the page, click on ‘Duplicate’ located on the top right

• More information on the template 🔽

  Template Info

  ℹ️ Media Info

If you wish to use an existing/your own DB for the integration 👇

DB Info

Step 2: Authorize the Notion Watchlist server

Grant the server access to your watchlist

• Click here
• On the install integration page, make sure you agree to the listed details.
• Click on ‘Select pages’
• At the page picker, make sure to select ‘Watchlist DB’ only (you can search for the DB in the search box if you do not see it at first) OR the appropriate compatible DB you wish to use
  • Since you will be giving access to the exact database, you can move it around in your Notion. You can also design your own template using the database.
  • If the ‘Watchlist DB’ doesn’t show upon searching:
• Click on ‘Allow access’
• Upon clicking ‘Allow access’, the page may take a couple of seconds so do not close the window until you receive a message.
• You will receive a message saying it was successful as well as an email. Save for future reference Make sure you to check your spam/junk if you don’t see it in your mailbox.
  • If you do receive an error message instead, follow the steps in the message.

If you wish to import an existing CSV file containing all the IMDb IDs 👇

Import

Step 3: How to use

Refer 🔽 page on types of information auto maintained and what to keep in mind about them.

Media Data / Properties Info

The ‘Name’ property is used to trigger and fetch the details

• Enter the title of the media you wish to get details for in the ‘Name’ property.

• Add ; at the end of the title. Example → The Batman;

• The details should be fetched in a moment or two. Please note that this depends on the notion’s server so if the server is down or slow, the updates will take more than the expected time to be reflected.

• The title can also be provided in the original language. Example → ナルト; This will fetch the tv series ‘Naruto’

• Searching by IMDb ID is supported too. Example → tt5180504;

• Once the details have been fetched, you can fetch again by simply overwriting the name if you wish to do so.

• Ability to filter your search for title is possible by giving the year and the type of media (tv series or movie) to look for and can be used when the fetched info is not the one you were looking for (this happens when the title is too generic or short):

  t → TV Series

  m → Movie

  [ → For filtering: the title should be before, and the year & type should be after the bracket.

  • The Batman[t; This will fetch the tv series ‘The Batman'.
  • The Batman[m; This will fetch the movie ‘The Batman’.
  • Home Alone[m1990; This will fetch the movie ‘Home Alone’ released in 1990.
  • Home Alone[m1992; This will fetch the movie ‘Home Alone 2’ released in 1992.
  • Sherlock[m2009; This will fetch the movie ‘Sherlock Holmes’ released in 2009.
  • Sherlock; OR Sherlock[t; This will fetch the tv series ‘Sherlock’.
  • Ragnarok[t2020; This will fetch the Norwegian tv series ‘Ragnarok’

• The year works only when the type of the media is provided as well. Example → name[t2019; OR name[m2017;

• The order in which the year and type are provided doesn’t matter. Example → name[2013m; OR name[m2013;

Here’s a demo 👇

Watchlist usage demo compressed.mp4

Errors

While fetching info, you may get error messages:

• title | No Title Found! → This means the server was not able to find any titles matching the one provided. Try again by fine tuning or make sure you are providing the correct title.
• title | Error! → This is an internal server error. Try again in a few moments and if you still get the same message, contact support: [email protected]
• title | Invalid ID! → This error can show up when the TMDB ID stored in the property ‘ID’ is invalid (happens when the ID is changed), simply fetch the media again and it should then store the new ID.

If the records don’t update at all, check if the server is up by going on here. If the server is up but not working for you, try re-authorizing. If still it doesn’t work out, try the following steps:

• Go to Settings & Members in the left menu bar of your Notion