Watch, read, listen, go
Start with Watch, Read, Music, and Go. Play, Get, and Make stay off until you turn them on. Each item has a status and a rating.
Sample
Watch
Read
Music
Go
Play
Get
Make
Alpha
Where ListIt is
ListIt is in invite-only alpha. Cloud sync is optional. The mobile app works fully offline.
- ListsPersonal lists
Private lists for what you watch, read, listen to, and visit. The phone app keeps working with no account.
- CloudCloud, friends, and reviews
An optional account syncs lists to the web. Friends, an inbox, and reviews stay private until you share them.
- ShelvesShelves and tracking
Catalogue search fills in movies, books, music, and games. Shelves and progress follow the item down to an episode, track, or chapter.
- AlphaInvite-only alpha
This is where development is now. New accounts need an invite. Existing accounts can still sign in.
You are here
- FollowFollow-through
“Who recommended this” is a text field today. Next it is a record with a life, so two friends can see who actually did the thing the other asked. That count comes before any public social layer.
Design study
- ScrobbleScrobbling
A log of what you actually played, watched, or read as you go, so follow-through is not only a box you remember to tick.
Design study
- PublicPublic lists
Follow a critic, a channel, or a public list without becoming their friend. Their page looks like their shelf. Public posts need a moderation floor before they are something an app store can trust.
Design study
- RecsRecommender
Suggestions that already know whose asks you finish. Sam landing most of the time, and Alex landing rarely, is worth more than a pile of anonymous “people who watched this also watched.”
Design study
- LaterDesign studies
Other sketches of a later ListIt. These screens are not in the app, and they are not a release promise.
Design study
Lists
Personal lists
Private lists for what you watch, read, listen to, and visit. The phone app keeps working with no account.
Offline, with backups
The mobile app works fully offline. Backups stay on the device, so a list still exists if you never create a cloud account.
Filter what you have
Narrow items by status, rating, genre, or who recommended them. Completed items can stay on the shelf or tuck away.
Shelves
Shelves and tracking
Catalogue search fills in movies, books, music, and games. Shelves and progress follow the item down to an episode, track, or chapter.
Catalogue search
Look up movies and shows, books, albums, and games. Results come from TMDB, Open Library, MusicBrainz, and IGDB when those sources are configured.
Sample
Watch
Read
Music
Go
Play
Get
Make
Episodes, tracks, and chapters
Open a show, album, or book and track the parts inside it. Seasons group episodes. The parent item follows the parts you finish.
Sample
Northline
7 / 12
- ArrivalDone
- Harbor lightsDone
- Paper boatNext
Search across lists
Search and filter run on the web app, so a title is findable without opening every shelf.
Alpha
Invite-only alpha
This is where development is now. New accounts need an invite. Existing accounts can still sign in.
You are here
Signup gates are up
ListIt is in alpha. Signups are invite-only. Use the invite link you received. If you already have an account, sign in and your lists are there. The mobile app still works offline without one.
Follow
Follow-through
“Who recommended this” is a text field today. Next it is a record with a life, so two friends can see who actually did the thing the other asked. That count comes before any public social layer.
Design study · not a release promise
Preview
A recommendation with a life
The name in the box becomes an object: who asked, when they asked, and where it stands — asked, started, finished, or passed. The item still sits on your list. The recommendation is what moves.
Sample
Preview
Northline
- Asked
- Started
- Finished
Sam
8 / 10
14 months of exchange
Alex
2 / 10
3 months of exchange
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The number you would send a friend
Of the things Sam asked you to do, how many you finished. How often Sam’s picks land next to Alex’s. How long the two of you have kept the exchange going. Other apps record what you consumed. This records whether you did what your friend asked, and it only needs the two of you.
Scrobble
Scrobbling
A log of what you actually played, watched, or read as you go, so follow-through is not only a box you remember to tick.
Design study · not a release promise
Preview
What you did, as you did it
A session — a track, an episode, a chapter — can write itself onto the item while you are in it. The shelf still shows status. The scrobble is the trail underneath.
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Now
Late Gold
Listening · writing onto the item
- Late GoldTrack 4 · just now
- NorthlineEpisode 7 · Sam asked
- Paper SaintsChapter 12 · yesterday
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Closing a friend’s ask
When the thing you scrobble is one a friend asked for, the recommendation can move from asked to started to finished without a separate errand. The pair’s landing rate uses that trail.
Public
Public lists
Follow a critic, a channel, or a public list without becoming their friend. Their page looks like their shelf. Public posts need a moderation floor before they are something an app store can trust.
Design study · not a release promise
Preview
Follow without a friendship
A YouTuber, a critic, or any public list can be followed on its own. Friendship stays for people you actually trade with. A follow is how you keep their shelf in view.
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Public page
Mina
Critic · not a friend
Follow
Their shelf, their order. Report sits on the page.
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A page that is theirs
The public page uses their lists, their order, and their voice. It does not restyle their shelf into your private home.
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A floor for public content
Reports, a hard line between private lists and public posts, and a way to pull a public page down. That floor has to exist before user-generated pages are something an app store will review.
Recs
Recommender
Suggestions that already know whose asks you finish. Sam landing most of the time, and Alex landing rarely, is worth more than a pile of anonymous “people who watched this also watched.”
Design study · not a release promise
Preview
Weighted by who lands for you
The recommender reads the follow-through record: which friend’s picks you finish, which you pass, and how long that exchange has been real. A scrobble can confirm the finish. A public critic can sit in the same weighting once you follow them.
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Preview
Harbor lights
Sam lands 8 / 10 for you
Paper boat
You finish Sam’s shows
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Not a generic similarity score
Co-occurrence — strangers who finished the same title — is a guess anyone can build. The ListIt signal is whether you did the thing a specific person asked you to do. That is the part this recommender is for.
Later
Design studies
Other sketches of a later ListIt. These screens are not in the app, and they are not a release promise.
Design study · not a release promise
Preview
A map for places
A study for Go lists: pins for places you want to visit, with a lookup for the address. Today the place is still entered by hand.
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Harbor market
Old quay
Ridge trail
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Progress that follows you
A study for the same episode or chapter staying in sync on the phone and the web, so finishing a part on one updates the other.
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Preview
Northline
7 / 12
- ArrivalDone
- Harbor lightsDone
- Paper boatNext
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Now watching, now reading
A study for a home that opens on what you are in the middle of — one show, one book, one album — instead of an empty shelf.
Sample
Preview
Watching
Episode 7
Northline
Reading
Chapter 12
Paper Saints
Listening
Track 4
Late Gold
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