Media Notch

One diary for everything you watch, read, and experience. TV, movies, books, museums — logged in seconds, recapped beautifully.

For eight years, I’ve logged my media consumption in Airtable – capturing what I watch, read, and experience so I can build year-end visualizations here. The Airtable mobile app is slow and clunky, which meant fumbling with my phone during the opening minutes of every show while my companions waited patiently (or not). Not ideal.

After experimenting with AI-assisted development, I built Media Notch: a fast, purpose-built app backed by Firebase Auth and Firestore. It pulls canonical data from open-source libraries (TMDB for TV and movies, Open Library for books), makes logging frictionless on mobile, and syncs your year in real-time.

One click to share your stats. Start building your annual wrap now, not in December.

Notch

Letterboxd wants your followers. Goodreads wants your reviews. You just want to remember what you watched.

Notch is a personal diary for your whole cultural life – TV shows tracked episode by episode, movies by where you watched them, books by how you read them, museums, plays, and live events all in one place. No followers. No feeds. Just yours.

Notch it up. Search for a show and Notch pre-fills the episode, remembers who you watch with, and notices when you’ve skipped ahead. Log it on the subway, the plane, the museum steps. Every experience, Notched the moment it happens.

Your year-end wrap starts the moment you log your first entry. Watch the charts fill in week by week – minutes watched, pages read, museums mapped, ratings charted. Every Notch builds the picture. December will look great.

One app. Every movie, book, episode, exhibit, and show you experience.