butler

Tell it what is played, read or watched. It files the rest.

A personal catalogue for games, books and film as markdown files, maintained via ordinary sentences.

Just say it

No forms, no fields, and no properties tables. Write the sentence and let the butler figure out what it meant.

Inherent Vice tag audiobook #bookclub-iykyk
Watched Whiplash directed by Damien Chazelle yesterday, released 2014

Live preview

Shows a live preview of the result as the sentence(s) is typed.

Started playing Resident Evil Requiem made by Capcom on Sept 22

Shortcuts

# for a tag, ! for a genre, @ for the shelf.

Loose files

Every entry is a plain Markdown file that can be opened, edited or taken somewhere else. Nothing is locked in a database.

Works perfectly with Obsidian's Bases, Graph View, and more.

Importing data

Easily imports all data from a Goodreads or Letterboxd export including ratings, dates, reviews and all.

butler turning a typed sentence into a catalogued entry
Three charts showing games, books and films broken down by status

The shape of the library

All the cataloged Games, Books and Films at a glace.