Mark video as watched, option

[grrrrr]

in #180 I asked and received an option to be able to mark a video as not watched.

Would be be possible to get the ability to mark a video as watched as well? For my use case, I tend to watch youtube videos in a number of different ways (newpipe, freetube, youtube-dl,...) but use FreeTube as a way to organize the channels watch which means that not always can I have the luxury of having videos in FreeTube automatically marked as watched.

Instead if I look at a video outside of FreeTube, the next time I run it I have to go in and click on each video I watched elsewhere. This can be a bit laborious as it's a multi click ordeal

• open freetube
• load subscriptions
• click on video to have it marked as watched
• click on subscription to get back to list of videos
• scroll to next watched video
• repeat.

Proposed solution.

Currently in subscription or channel view, viewed videos have a menu item to "Remove from History". If would be useful if when a video is not watched, the menu item allows to "Add to history" or "Mark as watched"

[morfikov]

I think the design here isn't really well thought out. For instance, I have several favorite videos in the Favorites tab. All of them are marked as watched and grayed out. I don't think the fav videos should be marked in this way because it is known they were watched -- that's why you marked them as favorite. But now, you have all those favs marked as watched (that's not a big deal) and grayed out (this is a little bit annoying).

Also, when you hit the 3 dots near one of the fav vid, you get an option remove from history, and in my opinion this option should be limited to the History tab only.

Anyways, having mark as watched and mark as unwatched is a good idea.

[PrestonN]

I think the design here isn't really well thought out. For instance, I have several favorite videos in the Favorites tab. All of them are marked as watched and grayed out. I don't think the fav videos should be marked in this way because it is known they were watched -- that's why you marked them as favorite. But now, you have all those favs marked as watched (that's not a big deal) and grayed out (this is a little bit annoying).

The favorites tab is also used as a "Watch Later" functionality. So it isn't guaranteed that the video in question has been watched already, which is why the overlay is shown.

Also, when you hit the 3 dots near one of the fav vid, you get an option remove from history, and in my opinion this option should be limited to the History tab only. It's weird because there's no corresponding option to remove favorite videos. To be hones I don't know how to remove favs. :D

You can remove them by clicking on the same button that you did to favorite it in the first place, regardless if this was while watching the video or not.

Either way, I agree that a "Add to Watch History" should be included. I will add this to a future release.

[morfikov]

You can remove them by clicking on the same button that you did to favorite it in the first place, regardless if this was while watching the video or not.

I found it, but the button doesn't really contrast well with black background -- I simply missed it. An ordinary red X button would be a way better. :)

[felixsanz]

@PrestonN Progress? Can we have an option on the 3 dots menu that says: "Mark as watched"¿ since i also use newpipe and other things and i want to mark videos as watched without doing all the above steps. this option is really really easy to implement.

Something like:

<div v-if='!video.watched'>
  <li v-on:click='history(video.id)' onclick='addToHistory(this.parentNode.parentNode.previousSibling);'>Add to History</li>
</div>

[PrestonN]

At this point, the functionality will be saved for something to be included in the rewrite as that is my current focus. It will be included along with the initial implementation of history over there. For now I have no interest in adding any new features into the current code base as any time spent on it is time better spent on getting the rewrite up to parity. It's still on my list of things to do but may take a while before I can get to it.

[PrestonN]

This is included in the rewrite.