Get your whole film history into Late Feature

Most people’s film history is scattered: a tracking app, a streaming service or two, a cinema account, a media server and their own memory. Late Feature reads the common ones directly, and an AI assistant handles the rest. Nothing here costs anything, and running any of it twice doesn’t double your diary.

Where it is, and the way in

• Letterboxd. Export from Letterboxd’s Settings → Data and drop the zip on Sources → Letterboxd. Dates, stars, rewatches, reviews, likes, the watchlist and your top four all come across. Letterboxd guide →
• Netflix. Download your watch history from netflix.com and drop the file on Sources → Netflix. You choose how far back; films go in your diary, episodes to TV by Late Feature, and older years wait to be checked five at a time. Netflix guide →
• IMDb. Export Your Ratings, your Watchlist or any list from IMDb and drop the CSV on Sources → IMDb. Each film is matched by its IMDb id and ratings out of ten become half stars. IMDb records when you rated a film, not when you watched it, so entries come in undated unless you say those dates are your viewings.
• AMC Stubs. Save your order history pages from amctheatres.com and drop them on Sources → AMC. Each ticket lands on the night of the showing. AMC guide →
• Plex. Sources → Plex brings in every film you’ve already played, once, and then logs new ones as you finish them. Plex guide →
• Anywhere else. Prime Video’s watch history, booking emails from your cinema, a spreadsheet, a list in your notes: Late Feature has no importer for these, but Claude or ChatGPT can read any of them and bring the films in for you. Claude and ChatGPT guide →
• Nowhere at all. For the films you saw but never wrote down, Catch up is a quick quiz of films you’ve probably seen, picked from what’s already in your diary. Tap Seen it, Want to see or Skip.

An order that works

1. Start with the richest record. If you’ve used Letterboxd, import it first: it’s the only source with your reviews and rewatches.
2. Add the others. Netflix and AMC treat a film watched within a day of an entry already in your diary as that same viewing, so a night you logged in Letterboxd and also bought an AMC ticket for stays one entry. Plex’s library import skips any film the diary already has.
3. Hand the leftovers to an assistant. Whatever’s left over goes in through Claude or ChatGPT, which asks you about anything it can’t settle on its own.
4. Catch up on the rest. Once the diary has some films in it, the Catch up quiz knows what to ask about.
5. Tidy up. If an older import ever posted something twice, Clean up duplicates merges them.

Films without a date

Plenty of history has no date: a film you rated on Letterboxd without logging it, an IMDb rating, a film you just remember seeing. Those go in as seen, with no date, rather than on a made-up day. They count towards how many films you’ve seen and how far through each director you are, but stay out of anything about when you watched, such as a year’s stats or On This Day.

Then let it fill itself

With the history in, the new films can arrive on their own: Plex logs what you finish, a Siri Shortcut logs an AMC ticket from the app, and Claude or ChatGPT logs a film when you mention it. And if you ever want to leave, your Account page downloads the whole diary in Letterboxd’s import format.